Henri Matisse made it look easy, but don't be fooled -- those vibrant, lyrical scenes and simple, geometric portraits which look tossed off the tip of his paintbrush actually took weeks, sometimes months to create. A perfectionist, he once mused, "Instinct must be thwarted just as one prunes the bran

Bright, Decorative, Domestic, Fauvism, Joyful, Lyrical, Opulent, Pop, Serene

Gilles Deleuze was a French philosopher whose work resists facile classifications such as Postmodern or Poststructural. Indeed, the concept at the core of his methodology -- if we can still use that word -- is difference. According to the odd logic of difference, a thing -- a text, a chair, a concep

Discourse as event, Eclectic, Event, Hallucinatory, Kinetic, Pop, Poststructuralism, Psychedelic, Quirky, Repetition, Round, Trippy

"The choice of a new generation." It's the cheesiest!" "You are not yourself." Guess which one of these catchy slogans came from Barbara Kruger. Here's a hint: it made you paranoid. Kruger combines unsettling slogans with found or fabricated images from popular culture -- photographs from magazin

Cartoonish, In-your-face, Media art, Political, Pop, Spectral

Alexander Calder brought motion to sculpture. An incredibly playful spirit, Calder channeled his joy into a deeply informed and influential body of work that spans mediums from simple line drawings to massive steel sculptures. Calder's work reminds us of childhood fantasies like infinite slides and

Candy, Collage, Elegant, Event, Kinetic, Kinetic art, Machinistic, Modern sculpture, Playful, Pop, Rhythmic, Spare