A YOUTH SPENT IN A STUDIO Alberto Giacometti grew up in Switzerland in the Val Bregaglia, a few kilometers from the Italian-Hellenic border. His father, Giovanni Giacometti (1868-1933), was an...

" My life is a pea lost among millions of other peas " Yayoi Kusama Yayoi Kusama is Japan's most famous contemporary artist. Born in the city of Matsumoto, she studied painting...

Damien Hirst was born in 1965 in Bristol and grew up in Leeds. In 1984 he moved to London, where he worked in construction before studying for a BA in Fine Art at Goldsmiths...

Robert Indiana, one of the preeminent figures in American art since the 1960s, played a central role in the development of assemblage art, hard-edge painting, and Pop art. A self proclaimed “American painter...

Jeff Koons, the "king of kitsch" raises many contemporary issues in his art.Born in Pennsylvania, he studied in Baltimore and Chicago and then moved to New York, where he began...

Arguably the most controversial street artist in the world, Banksy has developed an entire art subculture devoted to his works. Banksy’s art can impact any location at any given moment....

Shepard Fairey, born in 1970, by his real name Frank Shepard Fairey, is an American silkscreen designer, muralist and illustrator.  From the age of 14, Shepard Fairey became interested in...

Silkscreen printing is a very old technique for reproducing graphic works developed in China in the Middle Ages. The term of the technique comes from the Latin "sericum" which means...