ARTIST DIRECTORY

LET'S DIVE INTO ART HISTORY.

FROM 600BCE to TODAY

Explore the diverse world of art history through our curated collection of artists. From Cubism to Surrealism, Contemporary to Classical, and Baroque to more, delve into the rich tapestry of artistic expressions. Each artist featured here is a gateway to a wealth of information, guiding you to external sites with in-depth details about their lives and works.

There are also special sections that highlight other creatives and their influence in the fields of illustration, fashion design, graffiti, graphic design and more.

Intersectionality and representation are essential in the world of art. ALOE aims to demonstrate the breadth of incredible artists from all communities and lived experiences. So many women artists were foundational in building art movements and communities, yet they are only gaining the notoriety and recognition they deserve now.

This section is organised alphabetically by art movement with a list of notable artists from across the world recognised for their foundation or their involvement.

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Main Text References - TATE Art Terms

Please note: Some of the artworks that are referenced on this page may refer to mature themes and material.

'Overheard 1', Will McPhail (illustrator).

Quick reference:

A - Abject, Abstract, Actionist (Viennese), Aesthetic, Anti-artists, Anti-form, Art Intervention, Art Nouveau, Assemblage, Auto-Destructive Art, Automatism

B - Baroque, Bauhaus, Black Atlantic Artists, Body Art, British Black Artists Movement, British Impressionism, Brutalism

C - Capitalist Realism, Classism, Collage, Comic Strip Art, Community Art, Concrete Art, Constructionism, Constructivism, Cubism

D - Dadaism, Décollage, Degenerate Art, Digital Art, Divisionism, Documentary Art, Documentary Photography

E - Environmental Art, Ephemeral Art, Expanded Cinema, Experimental Photography, Expressionism

F - Fantastic Realism, Fauvism, Feminist Art, Figurative Art, Fluxus, Formalism, Found Object, Fresco, Futurism

G - Generative Art, Georgian, Gothic, Graffiti Art, Graphic Design

H - Hard Edge Painting, Hyper-Realism

I - Iconography, Identity Politics, Illustration, Impressionism, Indigenism, Industrial Design, Installation Art, Interactive Art, Internet Art

J - Japonisme, Jewelry Design, Joinery, Journalistic Photography

K - Kinaesthetic Art, Kinetic Art, Kitsch, Kumihimo

L - Land Art, Landscape, Layering, Linocut, Lithography, Live Art

M - Macramé, Magic Realism, Mail Art, Mannerist, Matter Painting, Medieval Art, Memento Mori, Metaphysical Art, Minimalism, Modernism, Modern Realism, Monumental Art

N - Naïve Art, Naturalism, Negative Image, Negative Space, Needlework, Neoclassicism, Neo-Expressionism, Neo-Impressionism, Neo-Plasticism, Neo-Romanticism, Neon Art, Nihonga, Non-Figurative Art, Non-Objective Art, Nouveau, Nouveau Réalisme, Nuance, Nubian Art

O - Objective Abstraction, Orphism

P - Paper Cutting, Paper Mâché, Participatory Art, Performance Art, Photobook, Photo Collage, Photography, Photojournalism, Photomontage, Pointillism, Polaroid Print, Political Pop, Pop Art, Portrait, Post-Impressionism, Post-Modernism, Pottery, Pre-Raphaelite, Public Art

Q - Quietism

R - Rayonism, Realism, Relational Aesthetics, Renaissance Art, Resistance Art, Rococo, Romanticism, Rural Naturalism

S - Screen Printing, Sculpture, Seascape, Silkscreen, Social Realism, Sound Art, Stencil, Street Art, Surrealism

T - Tableau, Tapestry

U - Ukiyo-e, Underground Art, Urban Art, Upcycling, Utopian Art

V - Video Installation, Virtual Reality

W - War Artists, Weaving, White Cube, Wire Sculpture, Woodcut

Y - Youth Movement Art

A - Abject Artists

Abject art is used to describe artworks which explore themes that transgress and threaten our sense of cleanliness and propriety particularly referencing the body and bodily functions.

The abject has a strong feminist context, in that female bodily functions in particular are ‘abjected’ by a patriarchal social order. In the 1980s and 1990s many artists became aware of this theory and reflected it in their work. In 1993 the Whitney Museum, New York, staged an exhibition titled Abject Art: Repulsion and Desire in American Art, which gave the term a wider currency in art.

Ana Mendieta (1948 - 1985) Cuban-American

Berlinde De Bruyckere (1964 - ) Belgian

Carolee Schneemann (1939 - 2019) American

Chang Jia (1973 - ) South Korean

Cindy Sherman (1954 - ) American

Dinos & Jake Chapman (1962/1966 - ) British

Gilbert & George (1943/ 1942 - ) Italian / British

Günter Brus (1938 - 2024) Austrian

Helen Chadwick (1953 - 1996) British

Ivana Bašić (1986 - ) Serbian

Jordan Eagles (1977 - )

Kiki Smith (1954 - ) American