biographies July08

El Lissitzky (Lazar Markovich Lissitzky )
november 23, 1890 – december 30, 1941
a Russian artist, designer, photographer, typographer, and architect
an important figure of the Russian avant garde who helped develop suprematism with his mentor, Kazimir Malevich, and designed numerous exhibition displays and propaganda works for the former Soviet Union
his work greatly influenced the Bauhaus, and Constructivist movements and he experimented with production techniques and stylistic devices that would go on to dominate 20th century graphic design

Sol LeWitt
september 9, 1928 - april 8, 2007
an American artist linked to various movements including conceptual art and minimalism
his media were predominantly painting, drawing, and "structures" (a term he preferred, in opposition to sculpture)

Saul Bass
may 8, 1920—april 25, 1996
graphic designer and Academy Award winning filmmaker
best known for his design on animated motion picture title sequences

Federico Fellini
Cavaliere di Gran Croce OMR
january 20, 1920 – october 31, 1993
Italian film director, known for a distinct style which meshes fantasy and baroque images, he is considered as one of the most influential and widely revered film-makers of the 20th century

Howard Arkley
1951—1999
Australian artist, born in Melbourne, known for his airbrushed paintings of houses, architecture and suburbia

Jacques Tati
october 9, 1907 – november 5, 1982
noted French comedic filmmakerborn Jacques Tatischeff, the son of Russian father Georges-Emmanuel Tatischeff and Dutch mother Marcelle Claire Van Hoof, in Le Pecq, Yvelines, and died in Paris

Jeffrey Smart
born 1921 in Adelaide, lives in Italyan expatriate Australian painter, who is known for his modernist depictions of urban landscapes