Drawing Inspiration: Jean-Michel Basquiat [ρ]

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Painter / Graffiti Artist / Brooklyn's Shooting Star

Tagged around Lower Manhattan as SAMO©

Blondie's DJ

Warhol's apprentice

Haring's friend

Dead at 27

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Drawing Inspiration: William Blake [π]

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Painter / Poet / Mystical Weirdo

Assumed to be nuts by his contemporaries

Huge influence on Allen Ginsberg, Bob Dylan and Jim Morrison

A Freemason?

Remember: Albion is divided into four Zoas

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Drawing Inspiration: Hans Memling [ο]

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Painter / Giant of Medieval Painting

Wounded in war and nursed to health by The Knights Hospitaller

Studied under Van Der Weyden

Painted the best Last Judgment

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Drawing Inspiration: Francisco Goya [ξ]

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Painter / Printmaker / "The Sleep of Reason..."

became deaf mid-career from... lead paint?

An artist in protest

Died alone, leaving his Black Paintings

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Drawing Inspiration: Jacques-Louis David [ν]

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Painter / Talented Jerk

Father killed in a duel

Supporter of Robespierre, then Napoleon

Signed over 300 execution orders during the Reign of Terror

Left with facial scar from a sword wound

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Drawing Inspiration: Ub Iwerks [μ]

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Animator / Inventor / Da Vinci of Disney

Yes, he created Mickey Mouse

Made the birds on Hitchcock's the Birds

Oscar-winning FX pioneer

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Drawing Inspiration: Edmund Dulac [λ]

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Golden Age Giant / 'Arabian Nights' Artist

Studied to become a lawyer... then got bored of it

Designed many UK stamps and even European currency

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Drawing Inspiration: Howard Pyle [κ]

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Illustrator / N.C. Wyeth's Teacher

Known for his novel, The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood

Painted Captain Kid like no one's business

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Drawing Inspiration: Marie Bashkirtseff [ι]

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Painter / Humble author of I Am the Most Interesting Book of All

Studied at the Académie Julian, one of the few schools to accept women at the time

Died of TB at 25

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Drawing Inspiration: Caspar David Friedrich [θ]

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Painter / German Romantic

Master of mystical landscapes

Had early success, died poor and lonely

Work co-opted by the Nazis for its inherent Germanness

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Drawing Inspiration: Georgia O'Keeffe [η]

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Painter / American Treasure

Said her paintings weren't vaginal

Has her own dinosaur, Effigia okeeffeae

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Drawing Inspiration: Aubrey Beardsley [ζ]

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Illustrator / Author / Foppish Pervert

Buddies with Wilde and Whistler

Lecherous pen-and-ink drawings inspired by Japanese shunga

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Drawing Inspiration: El Greco [ε]

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Painter / Old Master of the Moderns

Offered to repaint the Sistine Chapel(!)

Concerning Michaelangelo: "he was a good man, but he did not know how to paint."

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Drawing Inspiration: Ivan Bilibin [δ]

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Illustrator / Czar of Slavic Fairy Tales

Born in a suburb of St. Petersburg

Influenced by traditional Japanese prints

Died in the Siege of Leningrad

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Drawing Inspiration: René Magritte [γ]

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Painter / The Son of Man

Mother committed suicide when he was thirteen

Friends with writer, André Breton

Forged Picassos during lean post-WWII period

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Drawing Inspiration: Otto Dix [β]

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Painter / Printmaker / Spirit of Weimar

Served in the German Army during WWI

Deemed a degenerate artist by the Nazis

Painted Lady Gaga's great grandmother?!

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Drawing Inspiration: David Hockney [α]

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Painter / Printmaker / Fashion Plate

Friends with R.B. Kitaj and Andy Warhol

Enjoys the Brushes app for iPhone and iPad

Thinks the Old Masters probably cheated

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