Bas Jan Ader
Bas Jan Ader was a melancholic artist who died trying to cross the Atlantic in a small boat.
Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres
A master of the portrait.
Urs Fischer
Urs Fischer is a witty macho artist.
Permanent Food
Permanent Food is a magazine made from magazine pages gathered from around the world by hundreds of participants. Conceived and realized by Maurizio Cattelan & Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster in 1995.
Isle of the Dead
Isle of the Dead is the best-known painting of Swiss Symbolist artist Arnold Böcklin. He produced several different versions of the mysterious painting between 1880 and 1886.
Les raboteurs de parquet
Les raboteurs de parquet is a painting by Gustave Caillebotte. It was rejected by France's most prestigious art exhibition, the Salon, in 1875. The depiction of working-class people in their trade, not fully clothed, shocked the jurors and was deemed a "vulgar subject matter."
Gabriel von Max
Gabriel von Max was a Prague-born Austrian painter. His studies included parapsychology, Darwinism, Asiatic philosophy, the ideas of Schopenhauer, and various mystical traditions. At his residence in Starnberger Lake, Gabriel Max surrounded himself with a family of monkeys, which he painted often, sometimes portraying them as human. Max, along with his colleagues, often used photographs to guide painting. The great number of monkey photographs in his archive testify to their use as direct translation into his paintings. In 1908, his painting "The Lion's Bride" became celebrated, and was depicted in motion pictures as an hommage in the Gloria Swansonfilm, Male and Female, directed by Cecil B. de Mille.
Gerard Houckgeest
Gerard Houckgeest was a Dutch Golden Age painter of architectural scenes and church interiors.
Toiletpaper
Toiletpaper is a magazine by Maurizio Cattelan and Pierpaolo Ferrari.
Hasegawa Tōhaku
Hasegawa Tōhaku was a was a Japanese painter and founder of the Hasegawa school. He is considered one of the great painter of the Azuchi–Momoyama period, and he is best known for his byōbu folding screens, such as Pine Trees and Pine Tree and Flowering Plants.