Artists
Ad Reinhardt: monochrome
Alex Kanevksy: knife painting
Ak Anatole: minimalism, non-straight lines
Auguste Rodin: French scultpor
Amy Sherald: black full frontal portraits
Annette Labedzki: white background, fluid kinetic painting
Andreas Gursky: large format photography, symmetrical, repeating patterns, abstract
Andrew Salgado: painter, portraits, knife-art, colourful
Anish Kapoor: sculpture, red
Anapa: congolese artist, detailed, collaged
Ananaba Ibeabuchi: colourful portraits, drip painting
Andy Goldsworthy: sculpture, earth art
Andy Denzler: black and white, wipe effect
AnnCT: sketches, portraits
Anselm Kiefer: german history, dark, mixed media, sketch
Basquiat: painter, African American, diaspora concsiousness
Barkley Hendricks: individuals, block colours, painting
Bianca Pratorius: large formant painting, pastel colours
Brenna Youngblood: yellow surface, painting
Brett Amory: white monochromatic, landscape, people
Cai Guo-Qiang: installation, Chinese, metal
Carmel Jenkin: drawing, women’s bodies, dynamic illustrations
Cheri Cherin: congolese artist, modern life depiction
Chris Burden: radical performance artist
Christopher Cousins: dense block abstraction
Cy Twombly: abstract painter, expressionism
Clyfford Still: dichromatic, brush painting
Cole Morgan: sparse, beige base, inks
DJ Ojeikere: nigerian photographer, hairstyles
Delphine Diallo: collage, balck photography
Eddie Colla: street artist, stencil
Emil Schumacher: painting, abstract, lines
ee cummings: love poet
Ed Kashi: niger delta, photographer
Edouard Buzon: cubical collage compositions
Edward Minoff: black portraits
Emma Ferguson: textured canvas, painter
Emeka Udemba: painting, blue skin, African portraits
Eric Urcan: painting over photography
Erik Otto: painter, circular images
Erika Page: dense expressionism, reddish
Fatimah Tuggar: Nigerian, collage, intersectionality, Africa & the West
Federico Saenz: deep pastel, almost monochrome, abstract
Frank Stella: abstract painter, geometric
Frank Piasta: soft, misty block colour
Franz Kline: abstract painter, bold lines, b/w
Frida Khalo: painter, surrealism
GAL: Belgian cartoonists, African representation
Garth Weiser: geometric abstract
Gay Komarin: basic pastel
Gerhard Richter: German painter, abstract expressionism, layered
Gordon Parks: civil rights photographer
Hassan Hajjaj: Morrocan photographer, burqa
Harry Swarrtz-Turfle: abstract expressionism, block colour background
Hellen Keller: writer
Helen Frankenthaler: watercolour expressionism
Herbert Brandl: vibrant colours, thick paint
Hermann Bartels:
Hilde Wilms: abstract, tri-chromatic
Hiroko Imada: blue, abstract expressionism
Hyunkoo Lee: sculptor, portraits
Hyunmee Lee: monochrome, square, abstract
Igor Melnikov: painter, children, photorealism
Isabel Berhelot: block, surface tangible
Jim Harris: knife effect, Gerhard Richter style
James Brooks: abstract expressionim
James Jean: illustration, fantasy
Jackie Saccocio: layered painting, expressionism
Jackie Nickerson: portrait photography, DRC
Jaybo Monk: painter, Gustav Klimt technique
Jas Knight: portrait, representational, partially painted
Jasper Johns: geometric, circles
Jenny Saville: knife, flesh paintings,
Jean Miotte: ink, dynamism, abstract, large, contrast, colour
Jean Francois Lauda: obsidian large format abstracts
Jennifer Sanchez: colourful, geometry
Jiro Yoshihara: surly japanese girl comic
Joan Mitchell: flowery abstract expressionism
Jodi Bieber: South african photography, urban, suffering
John Romang: painter, kinetic painting, ink
Jonathan David Lange: colourful, childish style
José-Pedro-Cortes: african photographer, Viviane Sassen style
Joseph Winkler: abstract painting, layered paint
Joseph Albers: abstract geometric, minimal
Julio Alan Lepez: full frontal portrait superimposed collage
Julian Schnabel: red/pink hues, texture
Karl Fred Dahmen: German, base colour, intensity
Kehinde Wiley: black art, pop culture
Kimiko Yoshida: self portrait photography, fashion sculpture
Kura Shomali: Congolese artist, watercolour on paper, political caricatures
Kara Walker: black and white, paper cut-outs, slavery
Kate Shaw: blue based, landscape meditations
Kathryn Frund: seascape abstraction
Klaus Sander:
Keith Haring: activist, dynamic cartoons, bright colours
Kerry James Marshall: portraits noir
Kevin Tolman: abstract painting, background colour
Kim Manfredi: monochromatic, detailed bubbles
Kura Shomali: Congolese painter, political depictions, politicians
Landon Metz: almost monochrome, abstract painting
Laurent Koller: large dynamic, colour filled textures
Lou Ros: portraits, solid, surreal
Luca Brandi: monochrome, abstract block, knife painting
Lynette Yiadom-Boakye:
Lita Albuqurque: digital artist, photographer, red pigment
Lui Bolin: Chinese artist, political dissident, voice of the oppressed
Lucian Freud: flesh paintings and portraits, existential
Mark Chadwick: colourful fluid paintings
Maria Balea: ink painting, abstract, fluid
Marina Abramovic: performance artist, body
Martha Graham: dancer
Markus Prachensky: contrasty large painting strokes
Matt Small: dramatic, colour, portraits, black art
Marc Cinq-Mars: brown base, surface, abstract painting
Malick Sidibe: photographer, urban African, Bamako, b/w
Maiko Gubler: surreal, sky blue, architecture, mirroring
Masao Yamamoto: japanese photographer, b/w
Mathew Bax: ink, organic shapes, layered colours
Mary Sibande: photography, anti-colonial
Meridith Frampton: painter, cinematic, David Hockney
Mimmo Rotella: decollage
Michael Cain: painting
Michael David: thick textured layered abstraction
Michael Lotenero: grey-bown palette, sweeping strokes
Michel Keck: abstract expressionism, complex, sweeping
Michael napper: almost monochrome nature depiction
Mischa Richter: portrait photography
Moho: disfigured head portraits
Moke Moderne: Congo urban life
Mustafa Maluka: portraits, layered on wood effect, South African, colourful
Myra Greene: black photography, portraits
Nadia Duvall: motion ink photography
Nadav Kander: photographer, chromogenic colour print
Namsa Leuba: photography, acrobats
Nate Frizell: illustration, painter, fish-tanks, water
Neil Canning: blue seascape
Nash Francis: black and white reduction, multiple color overlay
Nicolas Jonval: abstract expressionism, base red, colourful
: nigerian, interracial marriage
Oscar Sancho Nin: black and white, ghostly
Otto Piene:water color, drip, circles
Patrick Nagel: pop art illustration
Patricia Caroff: grey dabbing
Paul Davey: digital artist, Massai warrioress
Paul Jenkins: ink abstract expressionism
Paul Barlow: theatrical, geometric sculpture installation, block color
Piet Mondrian: neoclassicism
Pierre Soulages: dark abstraction, bold blues and blacks
Peggy Klinerman: pastel abstract
Peter Lanyon: simple composition
Phil Hale: people in motion
Philippe Croq: abstract painting, almost monochrome
Philip Govedare: large format landscape painting
Philip Guston: pink based portraits and mini paintings
Richard Diebenkorn, abstract, landscape
Robert Kingston: almost monochrome, abstract
Robert Rauschenberg: painter, sculptor, installation
Robert Motherwell: abstract expressionism, blocksimplicity
Robert Colescott: African expressionism
Robert Pruitt: Black African American people symbolism, drawings
Rose Umerlik: abstract simplicity, primary colours softened
Romare Bearden: photography, urban US racial identity
Ryan Coleman: abstract expressionism
Rudol Hohenberger: pale background, red sketches
Sarah Ann Loreth: fine art photographer, self, landscape
Samuel Fosso: african photographer, self-portraits, african leaders
Sam Francis: ink abstract expressionism
Sander Steins: layered, ink, paint on collage
Seydou Keita: Malian photographer, Malian modernity, life
Scott Erickson: africans juxtaposed on european art
Scott Calhoun:
Shane Tolbert: objects on surface geometric painting
Simon Hoegsberg: photographer, New York
Simon Birch: painter, portraits, photorealism
Stan Brakhage: filmographer
Steven John McHugh: charcoal and acrylic base, knife painting
Stefan Annerel: abstract
Stricher Gerard: colourful, layered abstract expressionism
Sunao Nakamura: comic illustrations or japanese girls
Tai Schierenberg: painting, black people, portrait
Takizawa Hiroshi: japanese photographer, domestic, nature
Takahiko Hiyashi: block painting slightly textured
Tom Barth:
Tim Hallinan: abstract rectangular block, layered colour
Vanesse Varrete: abstract expressionism, blue base
Vladimir Tretchikoff: high contrasting portraits of non-whites
Vince Contarino: geometric, abstract, monochromatic, rectangles, triangles and circles
Viviane Sassen: photographer, African corporal
Walter Stoehrer: Ellipses, waves, colourful
Werllayne Nunes: painter, african, colourful, collage, surreal
Wangechi Mutu: feminism, women’s bodies, collage
Wolfgang Troschke: brush strokes, pastel sketch
Windfred Hawkins: black portrait, illustration
Wiz Kudowor: Ghanaian futurist/cubist painter
Yago Hortal: painter, abstract, colourful, fluid painting
Yayoi Kusama: polka dots, installation, japanese
Yue Minjun: Chinese contemporary artist, laughter faces
Yves Klein: blue, large base colour abstracts
Zhang Daqian: Chinese ink painter
Zander Blom: paint-texture, minimal
Zanele Muholi: black South African lesbians
Zikto Otto: red splashes dynamic
