List of Atheists (miscellaneous) - Visual Arts

Visual Arts

• Abu Abraham (1924–2002): Indian political cartoonist, journalist, and author.
• Franko B (1960–): British performance artist who uses his own body in his art.
• Francis Bacon (1909–1992): Irish-born figurative painter whose work is known for its bold, austere, and often grotesque or nightmarish imagery.
• Jemima Blackburn (1957–): Scottish painter and illustrator, especially of evocative images of rural life in 19th century Scotland.
• Iwona Blazwick OBE (1955–): British art gallery curator, Director of the Whitechapel Art Gallery in London.
• Berkeley Breathed (1957–): American cartoonist, children's book author/illustrator, director, and screenwriter, best known for the cartoon strip Bloom County.
• Joan Brossa (1919–1998): Catalan graphic designer and plastic artist, one of the leading early proponents of visual poetry in Catalan literature.
• Henri Cartier-Bresson (1908–2004): French photographer considered to be the father of modern photojournalism, an early adopter of 35 mm format, and the master of candid photography, who helped develop the influential "street photography" style.
• Mitch Clem (1982–): American cartoonist and webcomic author.
• Walter Crane (1845–1915): English artist and book illustrator, a main contributor to the child's nursery motif in English children's illustrated literature of the latter 19th century.
• Eric de Maré (1910–2002): British architectural photographer.
• Eugène Delacroix (1798–1863): French Romantic artist regarded from the outset of his career as the leader of the French Romantic school.
• Vincent Deporter (1959–): Writer/illustrator and cartoonist. Published in Europe (Spirou, Glenat, Dupuis...) and the United States (DC Comics, Nickelodeon Magazine...), and writer-illustrator for the SpongeBob Comics.
• Barry Driscoll (1926–2006): British painter, wildlife artist and sculptor.
• Marcel Duchamp (1887–1968): French artist whose work is most often associated with the Dadaist and Surrealist movements. Considered to be one of the most important artists of the 20th century.
• John Ernest (1922–1994): American-born artist, a key member of the British constructivist art movement.
• Ernst Ludwig Freud (1892–1970): German/Austrian architect, the youngest son of Sigmund Freud.
• Sam Fullbrook (1922–2004): Prize-winning Australian artist.
• Peter Fuller (1947–1990): British art critic and magazine editor, founding editor of the art magazine Modern Painters and art critic of The Sunday Telegraph.
• Sir Alfred Gilbert (1854–1934): English sculptor and goldsmith, central participant in the New Sculpture movement.
• Sir Ernst Gombrich OM, CBE (1909–2001): Austrian-born British art historian.
• Antony Gormley OBE, RA (1950–): English sculptor, famous for his Angel of the North.
• George Grosz (1893–1959): German draughtsman and painter, a prominent member of the Berlin Dada and New Objectivity group.
• Brion Gysin (1916–1986): British painter, writer, sound poet, and performance artist.
• Damien Hirst (1965–): English artist, internationally renowned and the most prominent member of the group known as "Young British Artists".
• Alfred Hrdlicka (1928–2009): Austrian sculptor, draughtsman, painter and artist, whose 2008 religious work about the Apostles, Religion, Flesh and Power, attracted criticism over its homoerotic theme.
• Mark Hofmann (1954–): Prolific counterfeiter and ex-Mormon who murdered two people in Salt Lake City, Utah.
• Sebastian Horsley (1962–2010): English artist and writer, best known for having undergone a voluntary crucifixion.
• Waldemar Januszczak (1954–): British art critic, former Guardian arts editor and maker of television arts documentaries.
• Charles-Édouard Jeanneret-Gris, known as Le Corbusier (1887–1965): Swiss-born architect, designer, urbanist, writer and also painter, famous for his contributions to what now is called Modern Architecture.
• Giulio Mancini (1558–1630): Italian biographer and writer on art, art collector and noted physician.
• Henri Matisse (1869–1954): French artist, known for his use of colour and his fluid and original draughtsmanship. He was a draughtsman, printmaker, and sculptor, but is known primarily as a painter. Matisse is commonly regarded, along with Picasso and Marcel Duchamp, as one of the three artists who helped to define the revolutionary developments in the plastic arts in the opening decades of the 20th century, responsible for significant developments in painting and sculpture.
• Alexander McQueen CBE (1969–2010): English fashion designer.
• Claude Monet (1840–1926): French painter. Best known as a founder of French impressionist painting.
• Sean Murphy: American comics writer/artist, known for his work on Hellblazer: City of Demons, Joe the Barbarian and American Vampire: Survival of the Fittest.
• Oscar Niemeyer (1907–2012): Brazilian architect, considered one of the most important names in international modern architecture.
• Jorge Oteiza (1908–2003): Basque sculptor, painter, designer and writer, renowned for being one of the main theorists on Basque modern art.
• Grayson Perry (1960–): English artist, best known for his ceramics and for cross-dressing, the first ceramic artist and public transvestite to win the Turner Prize.
• Pablo Picasso (1881–1973): Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, and stage designer. One of the greatest and most influential artists of the 20th century, he is widely known for co-founding the Cubist movement, the invention of constructed sculpture, the co-invention of collage, and for the wide variety of styles that he helped develop and explore.
• Raphael (1483–1520): Italian painter and architect of the High Renaissance. His work is admired for its clarity of form and ease of composition and for its visual achievement of the Neoplatonic ideal of human grandeur. Together with Michelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci, he forms the traditional trinity of great masters of that period.
• Gwen Raverat (1885–1957): English wood engraving artist who co-founded the Society of Wood Engravers in England.
• Gerhard Richter (1932–): German artist, considered one of the most important German artists of the post-World War II period.
• Bryan Robertson OBE (1925–2002): English curator and arts manager, "the greatest Director the Tate Gallery never had".
• Mark Rothko (1903–1970): Latvian-born American painter and printmaker, classified as an abstract expressionist, although he rejected the label.
• Martin Rowson (1959–): British political cartoonist, novelist and satirist.
• Maurice Sinet, known as Siné (1928–): French radical left-wing cartoonist.
• Brendan Powell Smith (19??–): American artist, author, and creator of The Brick Testament, which illustrates stories from the Bible by dioramas of LEGO bricks.
• "Normal" Bob Smith (1969–): American graphic artist, who prompted controversy with his creation of Jesus Dress Up.
• Vincent van Gogh (1853–1890): Dutch post-Impressionist painter whose work, notable for its rough beauty, emotional honesty and bold color, had a far-reaching influence on 20th-century art. After years of painful anxiety and frequent bouts of mental illness, he died at the age of 37 from a gunshot wound, generally accepted to be self-inflicted (although no gun was ever found). His work was then known to only a handful of people and appreciated by fewer still.
• Kurt Westergaard (1935–): Danish cartoonist, creator of a controversial cartoon of the Muslim prophet Muhammad wearing a bomb as a turban which was part of the Jyllands-Posten Muhammad cartoons controversy.
• Frank Lloyd Wright (1867–1959): American architect, interior designer, writer and educator, who designed more than 1,000 structures and completed 500 works. Wright believed in designing structures which were in harmony with humanity and its environment, a philosophy he called organic architecture.