Art, Design & Creative Influence

Artists, designers, artworks, movements, exhibitions, collections, and other references encountered through the development of my visual language and creative practice.

05.01 — Artists

Leonardo da Vinci
Painting, drawing & interdisciplinary study · Italian Renaissance · 1452–1519

Rembrandt van Rijn
Painting, printmaking, light & portraiture · Dutch Golden Age · 1606–1669

Jean-Michel Basquiat
Painting, drawing & visual language · Neo-Expressionism · 1960–1988

05.02 — Designers

Paul Rand
Graphic design & visual identity · Modernism · 1914–1996

Milton Glaser
Graphic design, illustration & visual communication · 1929–2020

Massimo Vignelli
Graphic, information & environmental design · Modernism · 1931–2014

05.03 — Architects

Frank Lloyd Wright
Architecture & organic design · 1867–1959

Le Corbusier
Architecture, urbanism & modernism · 1887–1965

Zaha Hadid
Architecture, spatial form & parametric design · 1950–2016

05.04 — Photographers

Gordon Parks
Photography, film & visual storytelling · 1912–2006

Henri Cartier-Bresson
Documentary and street photography · 1908–2004

Annie Leibovitz
Portraiture & editorial photography · 1949–

05.05 — Creative Movements

Italian Renaissance
Painting, sculpture, architecture & humanism · c. 14th–17th centuries

Bauhaus
Art, design, architecture & interdisciplinary practice · 1919–1933

Pop Art
Fine art, mass media & consumer culture · c. 1950s–1970s

05.06 — Exhibitions & Collections

The Metropolitan Museum of Art Collection
The Metropolitan Museum of Art · New York · Permanent collection

The Museum of Modern Art Collection
The Museum of Modern Art · New York · Permanent collection

National Gallery Collection
The National Gallery · London · Permanent collection

05.07 — Artworks & Objects

Mona Lisa
Leonardo da Vinci · Oil on poplar panel · c. 1503–1519

The Night Watch
Rembrandt van Rijn · Oil on canvas · 1642

Untitled
Jean-Michel Basquiat · Acrylic, spray paint and oilstick on canvas · 1982