Louise Bourgeois is one of the prominent sculptors of the 20th century whose artwork is often called an encyclopedia of modern art. Louise Bourgeois's artwork, made of timber, marble, bronze, plaster, latex and fabric, is abstract and figurative, realistic and phantasmagoric.

Fernando Botero's artwork is a combination of Italian and Latin American baroque elements with folklore and kitsch. His objects and figures are exaggeratedly full and peacefully drowsy. "By forms and volumes I try to influence people's feelings and sensuality," the artist says.

The French artist Pierre Soulages is known as "the painter of black". In fact, Soulages uses black as a basic and almost the only one paint. However the main drama of Soulages's artwork relies on the ability of "the ultra black" color to reflect light and modulate it, mold, create rhythm and tension.

Kabakov's archetypical theme of artwork, the Soviet communal apartment plunged into the atmosphere of absurd, is inherent to many graphic works and paintings of the artist and is exposed in the genre of total installation invented by Ilya Kabakov.

Sigmar Polke is one of the most famous artists of German art of postmodernism period. Over his entire creative life Polke experiments with various graphic and painting techniques by skillfully combining a classical manner with ultra modern technologies.

Bernard Buffet's artwork is filled with a feeling of gloom and loneliness for which he was referred by critics to miserabilism, the movement that emerged in France in the military period of 1940s.  Bernard Buffet created his own style that is a combination of modernism and salon art.

Robert Rauschenberg worked primarily with the collage and ready made technique. His combinations reflect the development rate and the energy of urbanistic and technocratic culture in which an artist's work on paper or canvas is replaced by flows of information transmitted via photographs, computers, newspapers.

Oleg Tselkov is a remarkable representative of Soviet unofficial art. His "flickering" portraits with images of strange round-headed creatures, a distinctive reaction to new formal techniques of a strict style, became popular symbols of Russian art "underground".

Timur Novikov is an outstanding man of Russian art of late 20th century, a founder of a new art movement of neoacademism.