Art history
MAES
TROS
Ten artists. Ten ways to break a rule and teach us how to see anew.
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This is not a list
of celebrities.
Maestros is a visual library of radical decisions: abandoning representation, turning colour into experience, making the museum a street or a soup can an icon.
Neo-expressionism / streetJean-Michel
Jean-Michel
Basquiat
A genius of the streets and the art market.
Pop art / repetitionAndy
Andy
Warhol
Millions of dollars for copies.
Synthetism / travelPaul
Paul
Gauguin
The rebel who changed art.
Cubism / personaPablo
Pablo
Picasso
Genius or master of self-promotion?
Anxiety / diaryEdvard
Edvard
Munch
The scream that never fell silent.
Portrait / ParisAmedeo
Amedeo
Modigliani
Scandal, poverty, immortality.
Renaissance / scienceLeonardo
Leonardo
da Vinci
The mysteries held within his paintings.
Colour / experienceMark
Mark
Rothko
From Daugavpils to the galleries of New York.
Abstraction / soundWassily
Wassily
Kandinsky
How did he transform the art world?
Suprematism / iconKazimir
Kazimir
Malevich
The path to the Black Square.
