By: Marilyn Berlin Snell

His contradictions cohere in his personal anthem to “Question Everything.”

By: Alix Lambert

His wit, his sculpture, and his being have proven influential.

By: Adam McGovern

The camera never smiled at her, and she’s not looking at you.

By: Peggy Nelson

They’re real, and they’re spectacular.

By: Robert Wringham

Awesome and devastating, yet naive and vulnerable.

By: William Nericcio

Uncanny, sensual, playfully transgressive art.

By: William Nericcio

He re-visioned the history of the Americas.

By: Dan Nadel

Innumerable artists have based their entire careers on the briefest of his ideas.

By: Gary Panter

Grotesque distorted candy-color figures twist and writhe.

By: David Smay

He never ceased his restless formal innovations.

By: Mark Kingwell

He called the United States a “moronic inferno,” a phrase that stuck.

By: Jerrold Freitag

Schiele’s shameful bent hand, Miró’s weird blue

By: Gary Panter

One of the most wigged-out artists on Earth.

By: Franklin Bruno

“The most famous unknown artist in New York.”

By: Jacob Mikanowski

“An indescribable gamut of colors!” said the first cosmonaut.