JEAN-BAPTISTE-CAMILLE COROT

• JEAN-BAPTISTE-CAMILLE COROT, a French landscape painter, is known as an important member of the Barbizon School. His works often depict natural landscapes, and he is highly regarded for his ability to capture soft light and atmospheric effects. Corot's paintings blend elements of Neoclassicism and Romanticism, and he greatly influenced later Impressionist painters.

• relevant artists

  • SUGIMOTO TOSHINOBU

    SUGIMOTO TOSHINOBU, born in Osaka in 1968, graduated from Osaka University of Arts in 1991. His works have been shown at many exhibitions and art fairs in Japan and abroad.

  • GIORGIO DE CHIRICO

    GIORGIO DE CHIRICO was an Italian painter active from the early 20th century who pioneered the Metaphysical Painting movement. His distinctive imagery—classical arcades, elongated shadows, mannequins, and trains—creates haunting and dream-like spaces that transcend conventional reality. After 1919, de Chirico shifted toward traditional techniques and classical themes, yet his early metaphysical vision continued to inform his work. His art signals the possibility of worlds beyond time and place and significantly influenced the Surrealist movement.

  • CAI GUO-QIANG

    CAI GUO-QIANG, born in Quanzhou, Fujian Province, China, in 1957, contemporary artist currently living in New York. After studying stage design at the Shanghai Drama Institute, he spent several years in Japan, studying at the University of Tsukuba from late 1986 to 1995. Since 1995, he has been based in New York, producing "gunpowder drawings" and large-scale performances, as well as many installations with Chinese and Asian cultural backgrounds. In 1999, he was awarded the Golden Lion at the 48th Venice Biennale. He held exhibitions at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Guggenheim Museum, and was the Visual Special Effects Artistic Director for the 2008 Beijing Olympics, designing the fireworks display for the ceremony.