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Who is Alberta Whittle?

Chila Kumari Burman, Auto-Portrait, 2012-18

Who is Chila Kumari Singh Burman?

Who is Pablo Picasso?

Types of Art

Pablo Picasso and some objects from a cafe in the background, illustrated in a style inspired by Cubism

Cubism

A man does the splits holding onto a rope. He has dipped his feet in black paint and has painted a line between his feet.

Gutai

Claude Monet

Impressionism

Rows of grey discs on an off-white ground squash into narrow ovals along a rippling horizontal band, their tones drifting from pale to near-black in a shimmering optical wave

Op Art

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Who are the Guerrilla Girls?

Who are the Pre-Raphaelites?

Who is Abbas Zahedi?

Agnes Martin photographed in her studio by Mildred Tolbert c. 1955

Who is Agnes Martin?

Who is Alberta Whittle?

A hanging mobile of curved steel wires balancing black leaf-shaped fins, one pierced with holes, tipped with small red and blue dots, a yellow disc and a white disc

Who is Alexander Calder?

Naive painting of a two-masted ship with tan and white sails and a blue hull on choppy water, between green piers with white lighthouses and a black boat, the bare grey board showing at the edges

Who is Alfred Wallis?

A gaunt, staring face with wildly spiked hair, screenprinted in vivid red against a flat black background, the head floating without shoulders

Who is Andy Warhol?

Black and white photograph of artist Anni Albers

Who is Anni Albers?

Photograph of the artist Anthea Hamilton

Who is Anthea Hamilton?

Barbara Hepworth

Who is Barbara Hepworth?

A black and white photograph of Ben Nicholson - he is working on a canvas

Who is Ben Nicholson?

Who is Berthe Morisot?

Who is Bhajan Hunjan?

La Lune by Bonita Ely - a light up sculpture of a tent in the darkness

Who is Bonita Ely?

Stripy Bridget Riley description

Who is Bridget Riley?

Bruce Asbestos looks through glass which he is painting on with red paint

Who is Bruce Asbestos?

Who is Ceal Floyer?

A drawing of artist Cedric Morris sits with a dog leaning on his lap and a red parrot on his shoulder

Who is Cedric Morris?

An illustration of Charlie Phillips shows a man with a blue jumper, brown skin and a grey beard and hair with glasses looking down at his photographs

Who is Charlie Phillips?

Chila Kumari Burman, Auto-Portrait, 2012-18

Who is Chila Kumari Singh Burman?

Chris Ofili

Who is Chris Ofili?

Claude Monet

Who is Claude Monet?

Who is Damien Hirst?

A burst of white spray erupts from a turquoise swimming pool beside a yellow diving board, in front of a flat pink modernist house with two palm trees under a clear blue sky

Who is David Hockney?

Who is Edgar Degas?

Portrait of Ed Ruscha by Danna Ruscha Courtesy of the artist

Who is Ed Ruscha?

A life-size head wrapped entirely in dark embroidered Chinese silk, blindfolded with a pale blue band, crowned with black fur and teal feathers and hung with beads and cowrie shells, on a stitched brown suede plinth.

Who is Eileen Agar?

an illustration of a girl in dungarees and a red tshirt

Who is Etel Adnan?

Who is Frank Bowling?

Who is Frank Stella?

An illustration of artist Frida Kahlo

Who is Frida Kahlo?

Who is George Stubbs?

Who is Georgia O'Keeffe?

Who is Gillian Ayres?

Who is Gwen John?

Henri Matisse The Snail Research 2014

Who is Henri Matisse?

Abstract carved stone reclining female figure with raised knees, a small smooth head and hollowed, flowing curves, the warm brown stone streaked with wavy natural veining

Who is Henry Moore?

a man with brown skin, wearing a white shirt sits in front of a colourful background

Who is Hetain Patel?

Who is Hilla Becher?

Who is Hilma af Klint?

Still from Hito Steyerl video

Who is Hito Steyerl?

Who is Hurvin Anderson?

Who is Jackson Pollock?

Who is James McNeil Whistler?

An illustration of the artist J.M.W. Turner painting en plein air, in front of a bridge - taken from one of his paintings

Who is J.M.W. Turner?

Photograph of Joan Jonas as her dog Ozu

Who is Joan Jonas?

Who is John Constable?

A young woman in an embroidered silver dress floats on her back in a stream, face and open hands above the water, lips parted, amid lush green banks and scattered wildflowers

Who is John Everett Millais?

Who is Julio Le Parc?

Child-like figures painted in thick strokes on a black ground: a red-faced creature with green ears and yellow tie, an orange hooded figure, a green-faced king and a horse-like animal, all with spindly white limbs

Who is Karel Appel?

Abstract composition: a large pale grey triangle tilts across a white ground, overlaid with scattered small rectangles, bars and crosses in black, blue, yellow, red and cream, plus a blue triangle and dark circle.

Who is Kazimir Malevich?

Keith Haring Polaroid

Who is Keith Haring?

picture of person in green clothes

Who is Leigh Bowery?

Who is Lily van der Stokker?

Who is Lorna Simpson?

Louise Bourgeois: Unilever series image 04

Who is Louise Bourgeois?

Who is Lubaina Himid?

man

Who is Lynette Yiadom-Boakye?

A white porcelain urinal lying flat on its back, signed 'R. Mutt 1917' in black paint on its rim, against a plain grey background

Who is Marcel Duchamp?

Living Sculpture, an installation by Marisa Merz

Who is Marisa Merz?

Two soft-edged dark rectangles, one blue-black and one murky brown, hover beneath a lighter red band on a glowing red ground

Who is Mark Rothko?

Who is Marlow Moss?

Who is Marta Minujín?

Who is Monster Chetwynd?

Who is Pablo Picasso?

Who is Patrick Caulfield?

Patrick Heron at Eagles Nest, photographed by Delia Heron, c.1965 - (c) The Estate of Patrick Heron. All rights reserved, DACS 2018

Who is Patrick Heron?

A child sits in her grandmothers lap listening to a story, while a tail and a beanstalk grow out of the book

Who is Paula Rego?

Who is Paul Gauguin?

Who is Paul Nash?

A man in a denim jacket and jeans covered in colourful badges, with a Stars-and-Stripes shield on one pocket, stands before a wooden garden fence holding an 'ELVIS' fan magazine

Who is Peter Blake?

Who is Petrit Halilaj?

White canvas divided by a dense grid of black horizontal and vertical lines, with a yellow rectangle at top left, a red square at lower right and a short blue bar near the bottom edge, shown in a deep white frame

Who is Piet Mondrian?

Who is Rachel Jones?

Rachel Whiteread Untitled (One Hundred Spaces) (Detail) 1995 © Rachel Whiteread

Who is Rachel Whiteread?

Who is René Magritte?

Comic-style explosion: a jagged burst of red, yellow and white outlined in blue erupts against a cloud of blue Ben-Day dots, with yellow and red rays shooting outward across a white ground

Who is Roy Lichtenstein?

A painted plaster lobster in orange, yellow and red lies along the handset cradle of a black vintage rotary-dial telephone; a gold label on the base reads 'Bell Telephone MFG. COMPANY'

Who is Salvador Dalí?

Who is Sheela Gowda?

Sonia Boyce

Who is Sonia Boyce?

Steve McQueen at primary school

Who is Steve McQueen?

Who is Theaster Gates?

Vincent van Gogh Sunflowers 1888 National Gallery, London

Who is Vincent van Gogh?

A naked, muscular young man crouches on a lichen-covered rock at the sea floor, bending low to measure a geometric diagram on an unrolled scroll with a pair of golden dividers

Who is William Blake?

Animated version of artist Yayoi Kusama wearing a red top with white dots

Who is Yayoi Kusama?

Image of Yinka Shonibare cartoon drawing as a teenager, he's wearing a pink shirt and on an orange background

Who is Yinka Shonibare?

An illustration of Yoko Ono surrounded by a typewriter a microphone a computer and paintbrushes

Who is Yoko Ono?

Yves Klein Leap into the Void 1960

Who is Yves Klein?

Who is Zineb Sedira?