Artists/performer Famous Names Starting with Letter W

Is a Polish musician and composer. He is a graduate of musical school in the first and second degree

Is a Polish musician and composer. He is a graduate of musical school in the first and second degree, alongside having attended the Academy of Music in Krakow as an accordionist. Professionally, Waclaw is the guitarist in death metal group Decapitated and has been a member of Lux Occulta since 1998, as well as the Krakow group Sceptic and the Polish singer-songwriter Renata Przemyk. Recently he has joined death metal band Vader.

Was a Polish painter and decorative artist.He studied painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakó

Was a Polish painter and decorative artist.He studied painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków under Józef Mehoffer who was one of the leading artists of the Young Poland movement and one of the most revered Polish artists of his time. He spent the years of 1909-1913 in Paris copying works of the old masters at the Louvre. He later traveled to Italy to study the Renaissance masters in the place of its origin. In 1920 Borowski was a volunteer fighter for the Polish forces in the Polish-Bolshevik War. In 1926 he cofounded and was a vital part of Warsaw's artistic groups RYTM.

One of the guitarists, vocalists and one of the founding members of the Canadian post-hardcore band

One of the guitarists, vocalists and one of the founding members of the Canadian post-hardcore band Alexisonfire.His lead guitar, possibly inspired by older punk rock and straight forward rock and roll, is somewhat simpler on the second Alexisonfire album Watch Out!.Wade and George Pettit (lead vocalist of Alexisonfire) were also in a side project, named The Black Lungs, with two members from the band Jersey, Jordan "Ratbeard" Hastings (current drummer for Alexisonfire) and Sean McNabb. Wade was the lead vocalist of this band, reminiscent of his first punk rock band Plan 9. However, the band broke up and Wade is left as the only member of the band. Wade currently uses the name as his solo project.

An Iraqi American artist a former professor at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and curren

An Iraqi American artist a former professor at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and currently an assistant professor at the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University. He is best known for his work Domestic Tension, where he lived in a gallery for a month and was shot by paintballs interactively by internet users watching from a webcam.Bilal's family is from Najaf, Iraq. He dreamed of becoming an artist but was prohibited from studying art in a university in Iraq, because of the alleged disloyalty of a member of his family; he studied geography instead. He continued to work on art and was arrested as a dissident for his art critical of Saddam Hussein.[1] He refused to volunteer to participate in the invasion of Kuwait, and began organizing opposition groups. He fled Iraq in 1991 and lived in a refugee camp in Saudi Arabia for two years, teaching art to children.[2]

A singer from Afghanistan. Waheed Soroor was born in the city of Kabul, Afghanistan. Being the son o

A singer from Afghanistan. Waheed Soroor was born in the city of Kabul, Afghanistan. Being the son of two established Cinema, Theatre, TV and Radio artist parents Mazida and Khan Agha Soroor, he caught on to music at an early age. At the age of 8 he performed for school concerts at Said Noor Mohammad Shah Mina School in Karte-Nau. Waheed and his family moved to India in 1982, where he sang as the lead singer for his school in more than 5 large concerts.

The Kraków Academy of Fine Arts in 1952. Professor in the Academy of Fine Arts, Poznan (1965 - pres

The Kraków Academy of Fine Arts in 1952. Professor in the Academy of Fine Arts, Poznan (1965 - present). Professor in Academy of Fine Art, Warsaw (1994 - present). in 1992 the government of Poland issued a postage stamp to honor one of his Cyrk posters, 'Clown with derby' in 1992. Swierzy is one of the Polish School of Posters’ most prolific artists (created over 2500 posters).He employs unusual concepts with a variety of techniques, frequently mirroring Polish social history from 1950s through 1980s. with a myriad of styles: folk art from the 50s, pop art from the 60s, portraits from the 70s, & TV images from the 80s In addition, his Jazz Greats series of famous American jazz personalities has become so well-known that he recently reissued them as signed lithographs. The series includes: Louis Armstrong, Ray Charles, Jimi Hendrix, Charles Mingus & Charlie Parker among others.

Is an Angolan musician who combines Afropop, Portuguese (fado), and Brazilian influences.At the age

Is an Angolan musician who combines Afropop, Portuguese (fado), and Brazilian influences.At the age of 28 he emigrated to Portugal to escape the civil war between the Marxist MPLA Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola regime and the Western-backed UNITA National Union for Total Independence of Angola.

Is a Cuban painter living in Madrid, Spain.Díaz-Balart studied accounting and political science and

Is a Cuban painter living in Madrid, Spain.Díaz-Balart studied accounting and political science and economics in Havana before moving to New York to pursue art studies in 1959. From 1959 to 1962 studied art in the Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA. Professionally, on 1967 he develops as lecturer in many cultural centres and universities of USA, Poland, Spain, Germany and Netherlands. He acted in two movies by Andy Warhol, The Life of Juanita Castro in 1965 and The Loves of Ondine in 1968.

Was a Polish painter. He studied at the Polatsk Jesuit College, the University of Vilno and the St P

Was a Polish painter. He studied at the Polatsk Jesuit College, the University of Vilno and the St Petersburg Academy of Arts.He produced, among other things, a well-known portrait of Adam Mickiewicz (1827-28).

Was a Polish painter and photographer. He was also a cofounder of the Polish Tatra Society.

Was a Polish painter and photographer. He was also a cofounder of the Polish Tatra Society.

Was an American comic book writer, artist and independent publisher, best known for his work in EC C

Was an American comic book writer, artist and independent publisher, best known for his work in EC Comics and Mad. Although much of his early professional artwork is signed Wallace Wood, he became known as Wally Wood, a name he claimed to dislike.[1] With

Was an American West Coast visual /assemblage artist.Instead of pursuing a formal art 'career' he wo

Was an American West Coast visual /assemblage artist.Instead of pursuing a formal art 'career' he worked in a factory finishing antique furniture. This work gave him the opportunity to salvage reject materials and scraps which he used to make sculptures. He began a mail art publication called SEMINA The format was a letterpress text printed on an assemblage of colored paper, photos, and essentially found material. Contributors included John Altoon, Antonin Artaud, Charles Brittin, Charles Bukowski, William S. Burroughs, Jean Cocteau, Allen Ginsberg, Marion Grogan, Walter Hopps, Larry Jordan, Philip Lamantia, Michael McClure, David Meltzer, Stuart Perkoff, and John Weiners.

Was a seminal American artist in the 1950s California counterculture,[2] gallerist, and educator who

Was a seminal American artist in the 1950s California counterculture,[2] gallerist, and educator who came to prominence in the early 1960s. Hedrick’s contributions to art include pioneering artworks in psychedelic light art, mechanical kinetic sculpture, junk/assemblage sculpture, Pop Art, and (California) Funk Art. Later in his life, he was a recognized forerunner in Happenings, Conceptual Art, Bad Painting, Neo-Expressionism, and image appropriation. Hedrick was also a key figure in the first important public manifestation of the Beat Generation when he helped to organize the Six Gallery Reading, and created the first artistic denunciation of American foreign policy in Vietnam. Wally Hedrick was known as an “idea artist” long before the label “conceptual art” entered the art world, and experimented with innovative use of language in art, at times resorting to puns.[2]

As an American painter and was an organizer of the modern art Armory Show of 1913, which was the fir

As an American painter and was an organizer of the modern art Armory Show of 1913, which was the first of its genre in America.In 1899, Kuhn set out for California with only $60 in his pocket. Upon his arriving in San Francisco, he became an illustrator for WASP Magazine. In 1901, Walt left for Paris, where he briefly studied art at the Académie Colarossi before leaving to the Royal Academy in Munich. Once in the capital of Bavaria, he studied under Heinrich von Zugel (1850-1941), a member of the Barbizon School.In 1903, he returned to New York and was employed as an illustrator for local journals. In 1905, he held his first exhibition at the Salmagundi Club, establishing himself as both a cartoonist and a serious painter. In this same year, he completed his first illustrations for LIFE magazine.

Is a jazz pianist and bandleader.A classmate of Sonny Cohn, after playing trombone in the McKinley H

Is a jazz pianist and bandleader.A classmate of Sonny Cohn, after playing trombone in the McKinley High School band, Fleming went on to study at the Midwest College of Music. He had already led several informal bands before King Fleming and His Swing Band

Was an English pianist and conductor.Bache attended his father's school and, like his older brother

Was an English pianist and conductor.Bache attended his father's school and, like his older brother Francis Edward Bache, studied with the city organist of Birmingham, James Stimpson. In August 1858 he travelled, again like his brother, to the Leipzig Conservatory, where he studied piano with Ignaz Moscheles. However, after a short trip to Milan and Florence he arrived in Rome in the summer of 1862. Between 1862 and 1865 he received regular lessons there with Franz Liszt; these lessons became for him a life-defining experience.[1]

Was an American cartoonist and animator, best known for founding Walter Lantz Productions and creati

Was an American cartoonist and animator, best known for founding Walter Lantz Productions and creating Woody Woodpecker.

Was an American bop and hard bop jazz pianist.He was the son of composer Walter Bishop, Sr.. In high

Was an American bop and hard bop jazz pianist.He was the son of composer Walter Bishop, Sr.. In high school his friends included Kenny Drew, Sonny Rollins, and Art Taylor. He began his musical career after World War II, and played and recorded with Art Bl

Was an American jazz musician. A native of Prairie View, Texas, Booker was a reliable bass player an

Was an American jazz musician. A native of Prairie View, Texas, Booker was a reliable bass player and an underrated stylist. His playing was marked by voice-like inflections, glissandos and tremolo techniques.

Was a blues shouter who sang with Jay McShann's band in the 1940s and co-wrote their biggest hit, "C

Was a blues shouter who sang with Jay McShann's band in the 1940s and co-wrote their biggest hit, "Confessin' The Blues".Born in Dallas, Texas, he joined McShann's orchestra, which also included saxophonist Charlie Parker, in 1941.[1] Brown sang on some o

Was a folk-blues singer and guitarist, best known for his collaborations with the harmonica player S

Was a folk-blues singer and guitarist, best known for his collaborations with the harmonica player Sonny Terry.At the age of 22 he became a traveling musician, working in the Rabbit Foot Minstrels and meeting and befriending Blind Boy Fuller, whose guitar playing influenced him greatly. After Fuller's death in 1941, J. B. Long of Columbia Records had him adopt his mentor's name, branding him "Blind Boy Fuller No.2". By that time, McGhee was recording for Columbia's subsidiary Okeh Records in Chicago, Illinois, but his real success did not come until his 1942 relocation to New York City, when he officially teamed up with Sonny Terry, who he had known since 1939 as Blind Boy Fuller's harmonica player

Known as Walt Kelly, was a cartoonist notable for his comic strip Pogo featuring characters that inh

Known as Walt Kelly, was a cartoonist notable for his comic strip Pogo featuring characters that inhabited a portion of the Okefenokee Swamp in Georgia.

Was a promoter of polka music in the United States. [1] He wrote the score for the first Polish soun

Was a promoter of polka music in the United States. [1] He wrote the score for the first Polish sound film.

An American abstract painter.Bannard attended Phillips Exeter Academy and Princeton University, wher

An American abstract painter.Bannard attended Phillips Exeter Academy and Princeton University, where he struck up a friendship and working relationship with Frank Stella, which continued after graduation and eventuated in the extreme minimalism both artists engaged in around 1959 and thereafter. The first paintings from the 1959-1965 period contained few forms, as little as a single band painted around a field of color, and then developed into somewhat more complex geometric forms by the mid-60s. In the late 60s the forms dissolved into pale, atmospheric fields of color applied with rollers and paint-soaked rags. He was associated with Lyrical Abstraction, Minimalism, Formalism (art), Post-painterly Abstraction and Color Field painting.

Was an American hard bop pianist.In the 1950s, Davis recorded with Melba Liston, Max Roach and playe

Was an American hard bop pianist.In the 1950s, Davis recorded with Melba Liston, Max Roach and played with Roach, Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie. In 1958 he played a highly successful, extended engagement in Paris with trumpeter Donald Byrd at Le Chat