Baroque, Beautiful , Bubblicious, Charming, Decorative, Demure, Eclectic, Feminine, Ironic, Masculine, Parody, Playful, Political, Power, Quirky, Representational, Sexy, Technology

Born in 1933 in Grand Forks, North Dakota, James Rosenquist studied art at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts as a teenager and at the University of Minnesota between 1952 and 1954, painting billboards during the summers. In 1955 he moved to New York to study at the Art Students League. He left the sc

Ironic, Kinetic, Monumental, Parody, Playful, Pop art

After graduating from Amherst College in 1983, Elliott Arkin got his start in New York as window designer for Tiffany’s and a special-effectsmodel-builder for films and commercials. These experiences continue to inform his work, which operates in the spaces between high art and popular culture. H

Absurd, Baroque, Classical, Clever, Figurative, Layered, Parody, Pre-modern sculpture, Psychological, Sardonic, Self-reflection, Witty

A French anglophile in the Age of Reason, Voltaire is best remembered for his fanciful philosophical tales -- "Candide," the most famous and well-constructed of these, is often referred to as the first novel. A reflective adventure story, "Candide" portrays a thinking everyman who meanders through a

18th century literature, Clever, Ironic, Parody, Rebel, Witty