Artists/performer Famous Names Starting with Letter I

Was a Japanese textile artist. He was most famous for reviving and modernizing a lost late-15th- to

Was a Japanese textile artist. He was most famous for reviving and modernizing a lost late-15th- to early-16th-century textile-dyeing and decorating technique called tsujigahana (literally, flowers at the crossroads).Kubota left school at age 14 to become the apprentice of Kobayashi Kiyoshi, a Tokyo kimono artist who specialized in hand-painted yuzen (a paste-resist-dyeing technique). Kubota also studied other techniques for decorating fabrics, as well as Japanese-style landscape painting and portraiture. At the age of 20, he first saw a fragment of a textile in the tsujigahana style at the Tokyo National Museum, and decided to devote his life to recreating it. Because no instructions survive that explain how to reproduce the complex decorative techniques seen in tsujigahana, and because the silk fabric necessary for its successful production (nerinuki) is no longer woven, Kubota was forced to experiment on his own for decades.

Is a Paris-based artist who works in combining art, fashion and design. He won the 2007 Great Indoor

Is a Paris-based artist who works in combining art, fashion and design. He won the 2007 Great Indoors Award[1] for his design of the Bernhard Willhelm boutique in Tokyo.[2]

Is an Israeli-American violinist, conductor, and pedagogue. He is one of the most distinguished viol

Is an Israeli-American violinist, conductor, and pedagogue. He is one of the most distinguished violinists of the late 20th century.Perlman was born in Tel Aviv, British Mandate of Palestine, now Israel, where he first became interested in the violin when he heard a classical music performance on the radio. He studied at the Academy of Music in Tel Aviv before moving to the United States to study at the Juilliard School with Ivan Galamian and Dorothy DeLay

Is an Italian pop singer and politician.Iva Zanicchi's career began in 1962 at the Castrocaro Festiv

Is an Italian pop singer and politician.Iva Zanicchi's career began in 1962 at the Castrocaro Festival of New Voices, becoming third [1]. She won the Sanremo song festival in 1967 with Non pensare a me, in 1969 with Zingara and again in 1974 with Ciao car

Is an American cartoonist and comics-author based in Chicago, Illinois.Noted for combining blackly h

Is an American cartoonist and comics-author based in Chicago, Illinois.Noted for combining blackly humorous taboo-laden subject matter with simplified and exaggerated cartoon drawing styles, Brunetti's best known comic work is collected in his largely aut

Is a Brazilian drummer who has worked with such bands as Dr. Sin, Ultraje a Rigor, Taffo, Supla and

Is a Brazilian drummer who has worked with such bands as Dr. Sin, Ultraje a Rigor, Taffo, Supla and Eduardo Araújo. Almost all his works, he worked with his brother Andria.

An American classical pianist. He received his bachelor's degree in music from North Texas State Uni

An American classical pianist. He received his bachelor's degree in music from North Texas State University, and an Artist's Diploma from the Santa Cecilia Academy in Rome. Davis studied under Silvio Scionti, Carlo Zecchi and played regularly for Vladimir Horowitz. He debuted at New York City's Town Hall in 1959.Davis made his international debut at the Festival dei Due Mondi in Spoleto. He has toured the world with several major orchestras including the New York Philharmonic Orchestra, the Cleveland Orchestra, the Chicago Symphony, the Philadelphia Orchestra and the National Orchestra of Spain. He has performed under such world-famous conductors as Leonard Bernstein, Eugene Ormandy and Lorin Maazel. He is listed in the New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, and has received the Handel Medallion from New York City for contributions to the city's cultural life.

Was a Russian-Polish painter known by his still-lives and portraits.

Was a Russian-Polish painter known by his still-lives and portraits.

Was a Russian landscape painter closely associated with the Peredvizhniki movement. Shishkin was bor

Was a Russian landscape painter closely associated with the Peredvizhniki movement. Shishkin was born in the town of Elabuga of Vyatka Governorate (today Republic of Tatarstan), and graduated from the Kazan gymnasium.

A Canadian painter.Eyre attended the University of Manitoba School of Art and the University of Nort

A Canadian painter.Eyre attended the University of Manitoba School of Art and the University of North Dakota, Grand Forks. He studied under artists Eli Bornstein, Wynona Mulcaster, Ernest Linder, and George Swinton. Eyre held a professorship at the University of Manitoba School of Art from 1959-1992. Ivan Eyre's work is featured in many galleries in Canada. [1]

Was a Russian painter of Armenian descent, most famous for his seascapes, which constitute more than

Was a Russian painter of Armenian descent, most famous for his seascapes, which constitute more than half of his paintings. Aivazovsky was born in the town of Feodosiya, Crimea, to a poor Armenian family. His parents family name was Aivazian

Was a Ukrainian painter. Soshenko studied at the Saint Petersburg Academy of Arts from 1834–8, the

Was a Ukrainian painter. Soshenko studied at the Saint Petersburg Academy of Arts from 1834–8, then taught painting in gymnasiums in Nizhyn from 1839–46, Nemyriv from 1846–56, and Kyiv. His work included portraits, genre scenes, landscapes, and icons.

Was a Croatian sculptor. He is renowned as possibly the greatest sculptor of religious subject matte

Was a Croatian sculptor. He is renowned as possibly the greatest sculptor of religious subject matter since the Renaissance,[citation needed] the first living person to have a one man show at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City.

Is one of the most appreciated contemporary Bulgarian sculptors.In the early years of his career, Iv

Is one of the most appreciated contemporary Bulgarian sculptors.In the early years of his career, Ivan Minekov participated in all common exhibitions in Bulgaria, as well as in representative exhibitions in Europe.

Is a Czech concert pianist whose performing and recording career, spanning nearly half a century, ha

Is a Czech concert pianist whose performing and recording career, spanning nearly half a century, has gained him a world-wide following.

Was a Russian painter, an author of portraits and battle paintings. Ivan Nikitin was born in Moscow

Was a Russian painter, an author of portraits and battle paintings. Ivan Nikitin was born in Moscow to a family of an Orthodox priest. He received his first artistic lessons from a Dutch artist Schwonbek at the engraving shop of the Kremlin Armoury.

Was a Russian painter and art critic. He was the intellectual leader of the Russian democratic art m

Was a Russian painter and art critic. He was the intellectual leader of the Russian democratic art movement 1860-1880.

Is regarded as one of the greatest guitar players in Russia. He plays many different styles like fus

Is regarded as one of the greatest guitar players in Russia. He plays many different styles like fusion, folk, Russian folk, jazz, and flamenco. Smirnov lives in Russia and plays with musicians such as Michael Smirnov, Sergey Klevensky, Dmitry Safonov, an

Was a ballet master. Born in Kazan, Russia, Novikoff studied at the Imperial Ballet School. He fled

Was a ballet master. Born in Kazan, Russia, Novikoff studied at the Imperial Ballet School. He fled to China because of the Russian Revolution of 1917 at age 17, where he taught dance to the children of Russian soldiers.

Was a Russian painter, one of the founders of the Russian school of portrait painting.

Was a Russian painter, one of the founders of the Russian school of portrait painting.

Was a Russian-Ukrainian sculptor and art teacher who helped awaken Russian interest in Neoclassical

Was a Russian-Ukrainian sculptor and art teacher who helped awaken Russian interest in Neoclassical sculpture.Martos was enrolled at the Imperial Academy of Arts between 1764 and 1773. He was then sent to further his education with Pompeo Batoni and Anton

Was a Ukrainian lyric tenor, one of the greatest stars of Soviet Opera, as well a producer and direc

Was a Ukrainian lyric tenor, one of the greatest stars of Soviet Opera, as well a producer and director of his own opera company, and longtime teacher at the Moscow Conservatory. van Kozlovsky was born in the village of Marianivka near Bila Tserkva in pre

Was a Russian/Soviet sculptor who took his pseudonym after his hometown of Shadrinsk.Shadr studied a

Was a Russian/Soviet sculptor who took his pseudonym after his hometown of Shadrinsk.Shadr studied at the Artistic Industrial School in Yekaterinburg from 1903 to 1907, and from 1907 to 1908 at the drawing school of the Society for the Encouragement of th

Is a contemporary Ukrainian painter. He was recently listed among the 100 living geniuses. Marchuk i

Is a contemporary Ukrainian painter. He was recently listed among the 100 living geniuses. Marchuk invented a unique way of painting his pictures, which he calls "dabbing-on", thus creating an unusual effect of luminescence of his works. Ivan Marchuk was

Was a painter, writer, and People's Artist of the Ukrainian SSR. Yizhakevych was born in the village

Was a painter, writer, and People's Artist of the Ukrainian SSR. Yizhakevych was born in the village of Vyshnopoli, Cherkasy Oblast. He was educated in the M. Murashko School of Art in Kiev (Kyiv), Ukraine from 1882 to 1884. After this, Yizhakevych attend