Experimenting with different forms such as impressionism, fauvism, and collages, which brought together a series of imaginative pieces, bold colors and distinct shapes and styles, the 20^th century French painter, Georges Braque, is remembered for inventing Cubism with Pablo Picasso.

One of the great abstract painter of still life, Braque was born on May 13, 1882, in Argenteuil, France, into a working-class family. 

Reviving the medieval art through passionate imagination and sensuality, the British painter, poet and translator, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, is famous for founding the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, a group of painters treating religious, moral, and medieval subjects in a nonacademic manner.

Best-known for influencing the European Symbolists and inspiring the second generation of artists and writers, Rossetti was born on May 12, 1828, in London, England, to English-Italian parents.

Depicting the moving figures to express the fullness and vitality of human body and using the flat areas of unbroken and unmixed colors and simplified forms, the German painter and printmaker, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, is celebrated as one of the leaders of a group of Expressionist artist known as “Die Brücke” (The Bridge).

Famous for his highly personal style imbued with psychological tension and eroticism, the Expressionist painter was born on May 6, 1880, in Aschaffenburg, Bavaria.

Expressing absolute immateriality and infinite space through pure color, the French artist, Yves Klein, is remembered as one of the most important avant-garde artists and an early pioneer of conceptual and performance art.

Best known for his own invented color, International Klein Blue (IKB), the conceptual artist was born on April 28, 1928, in Nice, France, with two parents as painters.

Emphasizing vehicle aerodynamics, pioneering theatrical design, and comprehending an automobile-based society, the visionary designer, Norman Bel Geddes, is celebrated as the pioneer of American industrial design and the streamlined aesthetic, who helped to shape the image of modern America with everything from household objects to hypothetical mechanized theatres, amphibious cars and floating airports.

Famous for his eccentric yet remarkably accurate visions, the prophetic designer was born Norman Melancton Geddes in Adrian, Michigan, on April 27, 1893. 

Insisting on the significance of color rather than line and evocating the expression of passion and poetry in painting, the French Romantic artist, Ferdinand Victor Eugéne Delacroix, is remembered as a fascinating man, a great painter, and a typically intellectual French hero, who came to epitomize the French aesthetics of romanticism.

The master of exotic passion, Delacroix was born on April 26, 1798, at Charenton-Saint-Maurice in Île-de-France, near Paris.

Depicting the high culture of the past in a radical language of highly colored stains and energetic brushwork to forge a distinctive body of work, the American artist, Cy Twombly, is best known for combining the history of Western civilization as well as the process oriented aspects of Abstract Expressionism.

Famous for his childlike doodling unsophisticated graffiti, blackboard chalk drawings and bathroom tagging, Twombly was born Edwin Parker Twombly Jr. on April 25, 1928, in Lexington, Virginia. 

Developing the innovative style of Cubo-Futurism from a synthesis of the splintered refractions found in French Cubism, and the force-lines, repetition, and rich colors of Italian Futurism, the Russian artist, Lyubov Sergeyevna Popova, is celebrated as one of the most distinctly individual artists of the Russian avant-garde, who excelled as a painter, graphic artist, theatrical set designer, textile designer, teacher and art theorist.

Capturing the architecture, the landscape, the beaches and the cities of Australia and creating images of sharp focus, boldness and graphic composition with simplicity and directness, the Australian photographer, Max Spencer Dupain, is celebrated as one of the earliest and most outstanding champions of modernism in Australia.

Best known for his photographs of Australian and their beach culture, Dupain was born on April 22, 1911, in Ashfield, Sydney.