Hum people

Chinua Achebe

Nigerian novelist, best known for his novel "Things Fall Apart," which explores the effects of colonialism in Africa.

Magdalena Abakanowicz

Polish sculptor and fiber artist known for her large-scale textile sculptures and installations.

Banksy

British street artist known for his politically charged and subversive artworks, often featuring stenciled images.

Alexander Calder

American sculptor known for his innovative mobiles and stabiles, which often incorporate abstract shapes and primary colors.

Paul Cezanne

French post-impressionist painter whose work laid the foundations for the transition from 19th-century artistic conventions to 20th-century abstract art.

Salvador Dali

Spanish surrealist artist known for his eccentric and dreamlike paintings, such as "The Persistence of Memory."

Marcel Duchamp

French-American artist associated with Dadaism and surrealism, known for his conceptual artworks such as "Fountain," a urinal he signed and presented as art.

Sigmund Freud

Austrian neurologist and founder of psychoanalysis, known for his theories on the unconscious mind and the interpretation of dreams.

Paul Gauguin

French post-impressionist painter known for his bold use of color and simplified forms in paintings inspired by his travels to Tahiti.

Frank Gehry

Canadian-American architect known for his avant-garde designs characterized by flowing, sculptural forms, such as the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao.

Zaha Hadid

Iraqi-British architect known for her innovative and futuristic designs, including the Heydar Aliyev Center in Baku and the London Aquatics Centre.

James Joyce

Irish modernist writer known for his novels "Ulysses" and "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man," which employ experimental narrative techniques.

Franz Kafka

Czech writer known for his existential and surrealist novels, including "The Metamorphosis" and "The Trial."

Frida Kahlo

Mexican painter known for her vibrant and often autobiographical artworks, exploring themes of identity, pain, and Mexican culture.

Roy Lichtenstein

American pop artist known for his comic book-inspired paintings and use of Ben-Day dots to create a mechanical, mass-produced aesthetic.

Maya Lin

American architect and artist known for her minimalist designs, including the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C.

Friedrich Nietzsche

German philosopher known for his critiques of traditional morality and religion, and his concept of the "ubermensch" or "superman."

I.M. Pei

Chinese-American architect known for his modernist designs, including the glass pyramid entrance to the Louvre Museum in Paris.

Pablo Picasso

Spanish painter and sculptor known for co-founding the Cubist movement and for works such as "Les Demoiselles d'Avignon" and "Guernica."

Jackson Pollock

American abstract expressionist painter known for his distinctive "drip" painting technique, as seen in works like "Autumn Rhythm (Number 30)."

Diego Rivera

Mexican muralist known for his large-scale murals depicting Mexican culture and society, including those at the National Palace in Mexico City.

Mark Rothko

American abstract expressionist painter known for his large, color-field paintings characterized by soft, rectangular forms and vibrant hues.

Jean-Paul Sartre

French existentialist philosopher and writer known for his exploration of existential themes such as freedom, choice, and authenticity.

Arnold Schönberg

Austrian composer known for developing the twelve-tone technique in composition, a method of organizing music using all twelve chromatic notes equally.

Igor Stravinsky

Russian composer known for his innovative and influential works such as "The Rite of Spring" and "The Firebird," which helped shape 20th-century music.

Andy Warhol

American pop artist known for his iconic images of consumer products and celebrities, as well as his exploration of mass production techniques.

Ai Weiwei

Chinese contemporary artist and activist known for his provocative artworks and criticism of the Chinese government's human rights policies.

Frank Lloyd Wright

American architect known for pioneering the Prairie School movement and designing iconic buildings such as Fallingwater and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum