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Luo Li Rong

Born on 1980 in Hunan, China, Luo studied at the Changsha Art Academy in Hunan in 1980 and then at the Central Academy of Fine Art (CAFA) in Beijing in 2000. In 2005, She graduated from the CAFA with high honours. Since then, she resides in Belgium where she lives with her husband (Luo, 2017) and continues her elegant works of art. Luo also receives commissions from private collectors and public institutions, notably creating several sculptures for the 2008 Olympic games in Beijing (Suite for words, 2017). According to the artist, she is greatly inspired by the Renaissance and Baroque sculpting techniques (Valentina, 2017).

Credits to Luo

Marianne von Werefkin

Werefkin was born in Tula, a small city 120 miles south of Moscow, into a wealthy family of Russian nobility on 10 September 1860. At age 14, her parents gave her private drawing lessons after noticing her talent for art. In 1880, Ilya Repin, considered to be the most important Russian Realist painter of that time, was assigned to be her tutor whom she studied with for ten years. In 1902 she fell into a slump but bounced back by becoming one of the few women who did Expressionist art in 1906. In 1924, Werefkin founded an artists' group named Ursa Major, or The Big Bear. In 1913, she joined the Der Blaue Reiter, or The Blue Rider Group, becoming known as the "Blue Riders' woman rider". During the last years of her life, she donated many of her paintings to Ascona, where most of them remain. She died on 6 February 1938 and was buried in the Russian cemetery in Ascona (Dias, 2018).

Credits to Marley

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Yayoi Kusama

Born in Nagano, Japan in 1929, Kusama loved drawing and painting although her parents didn't want her to be an artist (Tate Kids, n.d.). She started to paint using polka dots and nets as motifs at around age ten and created fantastic paintings in watercolours, pastels and oils. She went to New York in 1957 and since then, she has won several awards and had exhibited many of her pieces starting from the US, then Japan, then all over the world (Kusama, n.d.), including Singapore. She met and inspired important artists like Joseph Cornell. Her works were a part of art developments such as pop art and minimalism. She was also one of the first artists to experiment with performance and action art. She also explores music, design, writing and fashion (Tate Kids, n.d.).

Credits to Kusama

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Yoko Ono

Ono was born on 18 February 1933 in Tokyo, Japan. As a child she wrote poetry and plays and received classical training in piano and voice. In 1952, She became the first woman admitted to the philosophy program at Gakushuin University in Tokyo. After a year, she joined her family in New York City. For three years, she studied music and writing at Sarah Lawrence College in Bronxville but never graduated. She began participating in the avant-garde art world in 1956. Ono presented simple pieces that encouraged and often required interactive participation. In 1964, she made her landmark feminist art, Cut Piece. She was also prominent in the music scene with her works like Walking on Thin Ice (1981)

and made films like No. 4 (1966) (Cunningham, 2011).

Credits to Ono

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