Chrissy Angliker

Chrissy Angliker is a Brooklyn based Swiss Artist. She was born in Zurich, Switzerland, and raised in Greifensee and Winterthur. Her artistic inclinations emerged at an early age. Beginning in 1996 she was fortunate to study with the Russian artist Juri Borodatchev, who became her artistic mentor for several years.  In 1999 at age 16, Chrissy moved to the US to study Fine Art at the Walnut Hill School in Natick, Massachusetts.  In 2002, Chrissy had her first solo show at Gallery Juri in Winterthur, Switzerland.  Seeking to broaden her means of expression, she then pursued a degree in Industrial Design at the Pratt Institute in New York.  After spending her post-graduate years working in the design field, Chrissy's creative expression shifted back to painting in 2008. Her art is focused on visually translating her perception of herself in relationship to the world...

Jean Michel Basquiat

December 22, 1960 – August 12, 1988

Jean-Michel Basquiat was born in Brooklyn, New York, the first of three children. His father, Gerard Basquiat, was born in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, and his mother, Matilde Basquiat, was of Puerto Rican descent, born in Brooklyn, New York. Basquiat was a precocious child who learned how to read and write by age four and was a gifted artist. His teachers noticed his artistic abilities, and his mother encouraged her son's artistic talent. His mother suffered from mental illness, which caused a strain on his family.

At 15, Basquiat ran away from home. He slept on park benches in Washington Square Park, and was arrested and returned to the care of his father within a week. Basquiat dropped out of high school in the tenth grade. His father banished him from the household and Basquiat stayed with friends in Brooklyn. He supported himself by selling T-shirts and homemade post cards....

Alexander Calder
(1898 - 1976)

American sculptor, painter, and printmaker.

Alexander Calder was an American sculptor, painter and printmaker, best known for his wire sculptures and his invention of the mobile.  Calder’s twisting wire creations introduced a new method of sculpting to the art world that ultimately changed the course of modern art.

Born into a family of artists in Lawton, Pennsylvania in 1898, Calder’s creativity, which was apparent even as a young child, was encouraged, although art as a profession was not...

Marc Chagall
(1887 - 1985)

Russian Painter, illustrator, ceramist, designer.

Known as a Parisian artist, Marc Chagall always maintained an interest in his Russian origins and his Jewish heritage.

His oeuvre is an amalgam of eastern Judaic spirituality, Hasidism, Russian folk art and French modernity. Although Chagall cannot be classified under one artistic movement, the influence of Orphism, the magic of Henri Rousseau and the religious fervor of Georges Rouault all join forces in his works to create a separate universe — a world with a passion for fairytales and recurring themes of clowns...

Salvador Dali
(1904 - 1989)

Spanish painter, graphic artist, filmmaker, writer.

A modern master of the surreal arts, Salvador Dali's works continually challenged convention by questioning the antithesis of surrealism: our normal sense of the "real."

Surrealism's objective was to make accessible to art the realms of the unconscious, irrational and imaginary. An expansive movement that extended beyond the canvas, Surrealism embraced literature, music, cinema, philosophy and popular culture. Dali's works drew inspiration from fellow Surrealists, such as Giorgio de Chirico, Max Ernst, Joan Miro...

Frances Kornbluth

Frances Kornbluth was born in New York City in 1920, the oldest of three children she was the subject of a wide range of influences. Members of her extended family included a dress designer, Zigfield Follies performer, a music editor at Columbia Pictures, and a singer with the original Hammerstein quartet. After her dream of becoming a composer was discouraged she decided to follow her creative pursuits by first enrolling at Brooklyn College, then Brooklyn Museum of Art School, and continuing her education at the Pratt Institute. While at the Brooklyn Museum of Art School, her teacher Reuben Tam introduced Kornbluth to Monhegan Island and encouraged her to enter competitions and exhibit her work. Robert Richenberg, her mentor at Pratt, also greatly influenced her work.
Kornbluth has won numerous awards including several from the National Association of Women Artists, participated in exhibitions in Europe, New York and throughout New England, and is held in private collection. ...

Henri Matisse
(1869 - 1954)

French Painter, sculptor, graphic artist.

Modern art master Henri Matisse’s career was long and varied, ranging in many different styles of painting to mixed media wall murals.

Early on in his career, Matisse became known as the pioneer of the short-lived yet influential movement of Fauvism. The movement celebrated the use of pure color, simplification of line and spontaneity of expression. Matisse derived from Fauvism a new understanding of chromatic harmony, which led to the creation of an early key work, Luxe Calme et Volupte, 1904...

Joan Miró
(1893 - 1983)

Spanish painter.

Joan Miró's colorful art veers toward abstraction but always maintains a connection to nature, humanity and the cosmos.     

His work had a surrealist tendency such that the realms of the memory and imaginative fantasy were twin poles around which Miró's art has evolved.

It was through his relationships with Surrealists poets and painters in Paris in the 1920s that Miró developed a visual language of signs. His highly detailed paintings offered a new system of symbols in the form of curvilinear lines...

Pablo Picasso
(1881 - 1973)

Regarding the canon of art history, no other artist has exerted such influence as Pablo Picasso.

Frequently dubbed the "dean of modernism," the Spanish artist was revolutionary in the way he challenged the conventions of painting. His stylistic pluralism, legendary reconfiguration of pictorial space and inexhaustible creative force have made Picasso one of the most revered artists of the 20th century.

Influenced by symbolism and Toulouse-Lautrec, Picasso developed his own independent style in Paris during his renowned Blue Period (1900-1904): motifs from everyday life...

Rembrandt
(1606 - 1669)

Dutch Painter, graphic artist.

Born in the Netherlands, Rembrandt van Rijn was the unparalleled artist of the 17th century.

Both a master painter and printer, Rembrandt’s work was dedicated to recording the people he knew. He imbued his subjects with instantly recognizable humanity in all its forms, amounting to incredible studies of lines, light, shade and color. Although he never left Holland, Rembrandt culled countless original prints by Northern masters such as Albrecht D¸rer as well as engravings and woodblocks by Italian masters...     

Andy Warhol
(1928-1987)

American Artist.

Often referred to as the “Father of Pop,” Andy Warhol, born Andrew Warhola, had his first show in Los Angeles at the Ferus Gallery in 1962.  After a decade of great success as a commercial illustrator, creating thousands of ads for such publications as Vogue, The New York Times, Harper’s Bazaar, and Glamour magazine, Warhol began his pursuit of a career in the fine arts. 

Growing up in post-depression Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, having working-class immigrant parents of Czechoslovakian decent, Warhol found distraction in the characters of comic books and on the silver screen.