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Léon Bakst

Was a Russian painter and scene and costume designer. He was a member of the Sergei Diaghilev circle and the Ballets Russes, for which he designed exotic, richly colored sets and costumes. Beginning in 1909, Bakst worked mostly as a stage-designer, designing sets for Greek tragedies, and, in 1908, he made a name for himself as a scene-painter for Diaghilev with the Ballets Russes. He produced scenery for Cleopatra, Scheherazade, Carnaval, Narcisse, Le Spectre de la Rose, L'après-midi d'un faune and Daphnis et Chloé.

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Dustin Yellin

Is a contemporary artist living in Brooklyn, New York. He is best known for his sculptural paintings that use multiple layers of glass, each covered in detailed imagery, to create a single intricate, three-dimensional collage. His work is notable both for its massive scale and its fantastic, dystopian themes. Yellin is the founder of Pioneer Works, a non-profit institute for art and innovation in Red Hook, Brooklyn.

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Antonio Corradini - Veiled truth, 1750

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Seth Price - Vintage Bomber, 2008

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Storm Thorgerson

Storm Elvin Thorgerson was an English graphic designer, best known for his work for rock artists such as Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath, Scorpions, Peter Gabriel, Genesis, Al Stewart, Europe, Catherine Wheel, Bruce Dickinson, Dream Theater, Anthrax, The Cranberries, The Mars Volta, Muse, Biffy Clyro and Rival Sons. Perhaps Thorgerson's most famous designs are those for Pink Floyd. His design for The Dark Side of the Moon has been called one of the greatest album covers of all time.

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Andrew Wyeth

Was a visual artist, primarily a realist painter, working predominantly in a regionalist style. He was one of the best-known U.S. artists of the middle 20th century. In his art, Wyeth's favorite subjects were the land and people around him, both in his hometown of Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania, and at his summer home in Cushing, Maine. Wyeth often noted: "I paint my life."

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Edward Hopper

Was a prominent American realist painter and printmaker. While he was most popularly known for his oil paintings, he was equally proficient as a watercolorist and printmaker inetching. Both in his urban and rural scenes, his spare and finely calculated renderings reflected his personal vision of modern American life.

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Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin

Was an important Russian and Soviet painter and writer. Petrov-Vodkin traveled extensively throughout Europe, and after returning to Russia after the Russian Revolution, he took an interest in painting still lifes, working on the technique of portraying material objects on the canvas.

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Caravaggio

Caravaggio's epitaph was composed by his friend Marzio Milesi. It reads: "Michelangelo Merisi, son of Fermo di Caravaggio – in painting not equal to a painter, but to Nature itself – died in Port' Ercole – betaking himself hither from Naples – returning to Rome – 15th calend of August – In the year of our Lord 1610 – He lived thirty-six years nine months and twenty days – Marzio Milesi, Jurisconsult – Dedicated this to a friend of extraordinary genius."

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Collages by Maria Polyakova

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Pierre Soulages

“What matters to me is what happens on the canvas. No two brushstrokes are ever the same… any particular brushstroke establishes a relationship with other forms on the canvas, with the background and with the surface as a whole.”

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Wolfgang Tillmans - Lighter, blue convex, 2010

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Jean-Michel Basquiat

Jean-Michel Basquiat was born and raised in Brooklyn, the son of a Haitian-American father and a Puerto Rican mother. At an early age, he showed a precocious talent for drawing, and his mother enrolled him as a Junior Member of the Brooklyn Museum when he was six. Basquiat first gained notoriety as a teenage graffiti poet and musician. By 1981, at the age of twenty, he had turned from spraying graffiti on the walls of buildings in Lower Manhattan to selling paintings in SoHo galleries, rapidly becoming one of the most accomplished artists of his generation. 

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Lucas Cranach the Elder - Judith

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Norman Rockwell

Was a 20th-century American painter and illustrator. His works enjoy a broad popular appeal in the United States for their reflection of American culture. Rockwell is most famous for the cover illustrations of everyday life scenarios he created for The Saturday Evening Post magazine for more than four decades.

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Hokusai - The Dream of the Fisherman's Wife

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Hugo Ball

Was a German author, poet and one of the leading Dada artists. In 1916, Hugo Ball created the Dada Manifesto, making a political statement about his views on the terrible state of society and acknowledging his dislike for philosophies in the past claiming to possess the ultimate Truth. The same year as the Manifesto, in 1916, Ball wrote his poem "Karawane," which is a poem consisting of nonsensical words. The meaning however resides in its meaninglessness, reflecting the chief principle behind Dadaism.