Artists/performer Famous Names Starting with Letter F

Is a Taiwanese ballad singer. Born Chang Yen-ting (??? Zhang Yàntíng), he is also known as the

Is a Taiwanese ballad singer. Born Chang Yen-ting (??? Zhang Yàntíng), he is also known as the younger and slightly more effeminate brother of Chang Fei (also known as Fei Ge).

Was one of the singers of Quartetto Cetra, a popular Italian vocal quartet.He was a self-taught guit

Was one of the singers of Quartetto Cetra, a popular Italian vocal quartet.He was a self-taught guitarist. He left his native village before his twentieth birthday and moved to Rome. After work, he performed in local clubs as singer and guitarist.

Is a Swiss artist who was nominated for the 2000/2001 Marcel Duchamp Prize, known for his geometric

Is a Swiss artist who was nominated for the 2000/2001 Marcel Duchamp Prize, known for his geometric perspective-localized paintings of rooms and other spaces, using projector-stencil techniques. According to mathematics professor and art critic Joël Koskas, "A work of Varini is an anti-Mona Lisa."

A prominent Romanian operatic soprano. She has sung in the Royal Opera House Covent Garden, the Vien

A prominent Romanian operatic soprano. She has sung in the Royal Opera House Covent Garden, the Vienna State Opera and the Liceu in Barcelona.She is a judge at the Romanian show Vreau sa fiu Vedeta.

Was a singer of traditional pop music.She stopped singing to get married, but was bored with stay-at

Was a singer of traditional pop music.She stopped singing to get married, but was bored with stay-at-home life, and in 1950 returned to singing, in a nightclub in Hollywood, Café Gala. She was heard there by Benny Carter, who thought enough of her to reco

Was a Polish--Brazilian pianist.Felicja Blumental was born born in Warsaw, Poland, into a musical fa

Was a Polish--Brazilian pianist.Felicja Blumental was born born in Warsaw, Poland, into a musical family, daughter of a violinist. She began piano lessons at the age of five, and made her debut at the age of ten. She studied at the National Conservatory in Warsaw, taking piano lessons from Zbigniew Drzewiecki (who founded the International Frederick Chopin Piano Competition) and composition lessons from the composer Karol Szymanowski. She later studied privately in Switzerland with Józef Turczynski, a noted Chopin interpreter and scholar.

Was a Polish painter and sculptor, known mostly from his monumental wall paintings and plafonds (e.g

Was a Polish painter and sculptor, known mostly from his monumental wall paintings and plafonds (e.g. plafond in the Hall under the Birds at castle of Wawel).

Was a Polish painter and sculptor, known mostly from his monumental wall paintings and plafonds (e.g

Was a Polish painter and sculptor, known mostly from his monumental wall paintings and plafonds (e.g. plafond in the Hall under the Birds at castle of Wawel).

Was a Polish painter and artist who painted mostly historic battle scenes drawn from the borderlands

Was a Polish painter and artist who painted mostly historic battle scenes drawn from the borderlands of Poland and Germany.His oil on canvas Knights From a Religious Order, also called The Teutonic Knights, was taken from the Lublin Museum in Poland during World War II German occupation. It was inventoried by the Germans, numbered III BR/7, and possibly taken back to Germany. It is now lost. This painting records the Teutonic Knights' retreat after the Battle of Grunwald in Tannenberg. On the morning of 15 July 1410, the armies of King Wladyslaw Jagiello met them.

Was a Polish-born British expressionist painter.He studied in the Warsaw Academy of Art and trained

Was a Polish-born British expressionist painter.He studied in the Warsaw Academy of Art and trained as an artillery officer. Later he moved to work in Italy and France and eventually moved to UK in 1935 and founded a studio near Waterloo where there is still a free permanent exhibition which chronicles the twentieth century. He married twice, first to Marian Everall and then Caryl J. Stanley. The George Bernard Shaw play In Good King Charles's Golden Days was published in 1939 with illustrations by Topolski, bringing his work to a wide audience in the UK.

Was a German-born concert Pianist and educator.Mr. Fox studied piano with Carl Reinecke in Leipzig,

Was a German-born concert Pianist and educator.Mr. Fox studied piano with Carl Reinecke in Leipzig, and Hungarian-French pianist Isidor Philipp in Paris, and studied music theory with Salomon Jadassohn. Fox graduated from the Royal Conservatory of Music in Leipzig where he made his debut in 1896. [5]He made his Paris debut in 1897, his Boston debut in 1898, and his London debut in 1907. Fox performed concerts with the New York Symphony Orchestra, the Philadelphia Orchestra, the Dannreuther String Quartet and the Boston Symphony Orchestra.[6][7]

Was a Cuban artist who grew up in Puerto Rico before moving to New York City. Gonzalez-Torres had hi

Was a Cuban artist who grew up in Puerto Rico before moving to New York City. Gonzalez-Torres had his first one-man exhibition of his early text pieces in 1988 at the Rastovsky Gallery (560 Broadway) in Soho.His work was the focus of several major museum solo exhibitions in his lifetime and after his death. Retrospectives of his work have been organized by the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York (1995), the Sprengel Museum in Hannover, Germany (1997), and the Serpentine Gallery in London (2000).

Was a prominent Cuban poster artist and graphic designer. A self-taught artist from Sagua la Grande,

Was a prominent Cuban poster artist and graphic designer. A self-taught artist from Sagua la Grande, he began work in a Havana printshop in 1944 and was appointed Chief Designer for Cuba's principal television station in 1959. In 1964, at the beginning of the new wave of Cuban graphic design, Mederos began creating his first posters as head of the design team of the propaganda organization Intercommunications.

Is acknowledged as one of the great Filipino painters of the late 19th century, and is significant i

Is acknowledged as one of the great Filipino painters of the late 19th century, and is significant in Philippine history for having been an acquaintance and inspiration for members of the Philippine reform movement which included Jose Rizal, Marcelo del Pilar, Mariano Ponce and Graciano Lopez Jaena, although he neither involved himself directly in that movement, nor later associate himself with the First Philippine Republic under Emilio Aguinaldo.

Is a contemporary artist based in Düsseldorf, Germany. He was a student of the Kunstakademie Düsse

Is a contemporary artist based in Düsseldorf, Germany. He was a student of the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf and Accademia Albertina di Belle Arti di Torino. His sculptural works explore architectural destruction and reorganization in pre-existing spaces through the introduction of irregular structures. His influences include Gordon Matta-Clark.

Is a German Artist. Ever since the early 80s Weber does concentrate on painting, drawing, Comic-book

Is a German Artist. Ever since the early 80s Weber does concentrate on painting, drawing, Comic-books and music. 1991 Weber founded the Label "SUBVERSION DURCH SCHLOCK (SDS)" and began to exhibit his art. Most obvious about his work is his perseverance in sex and violence as basic elements for the kind of cutting edge art he has got in his mind. At the end of the nineties SDS was changed to SCHLOCKWELTALL and Weber began to built his presence on the internet, schlockweltall.de.[1]

Was an American sculptor. His most famous piece is the Marine Corps War Memorial of five U.S. Marine

Was an American sculptor. His most famous piece is the Marine Corps War Memorial of five U.S. Marines and one sailor raising the flag of the United States on Iwo Jima during World War Two.De Weldon was born in Vienna, Austria on 12 April 1907. He received his early education at St. Egichins Grammar School. In 1925, he earned an A.B. from Marchetti College, a preparatory college. From the University of Vienna's Academy of Creative Arts and School of Architecture, he earned his M.A. and M.S. degrees in 1927 and his Ph.D. in 1929.

Is a contemporary Chinese who works mainly in new media.He graduated from Central Academy of Fine Ar

Is a contemporary Chinese who works mainly in new media.He graduated from Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing. His interactive installation My Private Album was shown in Documenta X in 1997, and video game mod installation Q4U (produced by The Renaissance Society, based on Quake III Arena) was shown in Documenta 11 in 2002. Ah_Q is a dancing-pad version of Q4U won the Award of Distinction of Interactive Art, Prix Ars Electronica, 2004.

Is an artist based in Beijing. Originally a high-school and college art teacher in Sichuan, he came

Is an artist based in Beijing. Originally a high-school and college art teacher in Sichuan, he came to Beijing in 1995.His best-known work is his Portrait of China series, very large Warhol-style oil portraits, in a red/turquoise palette, of Chinese fashion model faces with vacant diverging eyes (his signature style). Critics view his work as a critique of contemporary consumer society[1] His early paintings were inspired by 1930s Shanghai posters. His more recent work is based on the red and green of traditional Chinese New Year art, the colours made "more acid, a representation of the flashy, commercial nature of modern China".[2]

Was a Russian landscape painter who introduced the lyrical landscape style in Russian art. Feodor Va

Was a Russian landscape painter who introduced the lyrical landscape style in Russian art. Feodor Vasilyev was born to a low-level government official, Alexander Vasilyevich Vasilyev, and Olga Emelyanova Polyntseva on 22 February N.S. 1850.

Was a Russian painter of Italian descent.

Was a Russian painter of Italian descent.

Was the most famous Russian opera singer of the 20th Century. Owing to his powerful and flexible bas

Was the most famous Russian opera singer of the 20th Century. Owing to his powerful and flexible bass voice, employed in conjunction with a mesmerizing stage presence and superb acting ability, he is considered one of the supreme performers in the history

Was a Dutch artist, etcher, and draftsman. Although his surviving work is rare, it displays Rembrand

Was a Dutch artist, etcher, and draftsman. Although his surviving work is rare, it displays Rembrandt's influence; like his master, Bol favored historical subjects, portraits, numerous self-portraits, and single figures in exotic finery.

Was a French sculptor whose work is characterised in particular by the Art Nouveau style. Marie Anto

Was a French sculptor whose work is characterised in particular by the Art Nouveau style. Marie Antoine Ferdinand Faivre was born in Marseille on 8 October 1860 and died on 19 August 1937. His birth date is occasionally given as 1867 in confusion with Abel Faivre (1867-45), the Lyon-born painter and illustrator. He studied sculpture at the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris under P.J.Cavelier,

Was an Austrian botanical illustrator who travelled on Matthew Flinders' expedition to Australia.Fer

Was an Austrian botanical illustrator who travelled on Matthew Flinders' expedition to Australia.Ferdinand was the son of the official court painter to the Prince of Liechtenstein, Lucas Bauer, (?-1761), and brother of the painters Josef Anton and Franz Bauer. The eldest was the successor to their fathers position, Ferdinand and Franz would also gain experince with Norbert Boccius (1729-1806), a practitioner of medicine with a keen interset in botany. Ferdinand and his brother contributed to a series of botanical miniatures, the first when he was 15 years old. Their education was continued at the Vienna University, under the botanist and artist Nikolaus von Jacquin. They were introduced to the field of microscopy, and a keen understanding and talent few detail was discovered.