Masters of Their Craft
Artists
Discover the visionaries who shaped the course of art history.
39,743 artists in the collection
Guérin, Charles
French
French, 1875 - 1939
Guerin, Pierre-Narcisse Baron
French
French, 1774 - 1833
Guerra, Flora G.
American
American, born Mexico, 1900 - 1989
Guerra, Giovanni
Italian
Roman, 1544 - 1618
Guerrilla Girls
Guerrilla Girls
founded 1985
Guerrilla Girls is an anonymous group of feminist, female artists devoted to fighting sexism and racism within the art world. The group formed in New York City in 1985, born out of a picket against the Museum of Modern Art the previous year. The core of the group's work is bringing gender and racial inequality into focus within the greater arts community and society at large. The Guerrilla Girls employ culture jamming in the form of posters, books, billboards, lectures, interviews, public appearances and internet interventions to expose disparities, discrimination, and corruption (the latter includes conflicts of interest within museums). They also often use humor in their work to make their serious messages engaging. The Guerrilla Girls are known for their "guerrilla" tactics, hence their name, such as hanging up posters or staging surprise exhibitions. To remain anonymous, members don gorilla masks. To permit individual identities in interviews, they use pseudonyms that refer to deceased female artists such as Frida Kahlo, Käthe Kollwitz, and Alice Neel, as well as writers and activists, such as Gertrude Stein and Harriet Tubman. According to GG1, identities are concealed because...
Guerrini, Giovanni
Italian
Italian, 1887 - 1972
Guersant, E.
French
French, active 18th century
Guetar
Guglielmo Borremans
Guglielmo Caccia
Guglielmo della Porta