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Gao Xingjian (born 1940)
painter, translator, playwright, literary critic, film director
Jean Cocteau (1889-1963)
painter, playwright, film director, poet, actor, illustrator, librettist, voice actor, postage stamp designer, designer, photographer, composer, jewelry designer, ceramicist, director
![Two screenplays: The blood of a poet [and] The testament of Orpheus](https://covers.openlibrary.org/b/id/7099262-M.jpg)
Tove Jansson (1914-2001)
painter, illustrator, cartoonist
![Moomin's Little Book Of Numbers [Aug 24, 2010] Jansson, Tove](https://covers.openlibrary.org/b/id/13321316-M.jpg)
Salvador Dalà (1904-1989)
painter, sculptor, actor, film director, photographer, film actor, scenographer, illustrator, jewelry designer, graphic artist, holographer
Wolfgang Herrndorf (1965-2013)
painter, illustrator, caricaturist
Gottfried Keller (1819-1890)
poet, painter, chancery manager
Carl Larsson (1853-1919)
watercolorist, illustrator, painter, printmaker, graphic artist, drawer, architectural draftsperson
Takeshi Kitano (born 1947)
film director, actor, television presenter, comedian, producer, painter, director