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Henry Miller (1891-1980)
painter, essayist, correspondent
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Lawrence Ferlinghetti (1919-2021)
military officer, poet, translator, publisher, painter, journalist, peace activist, activist shareholder, playwright, bookseller, political activist
Mitsumasa Anno (1926-2020)
illustrator, painter
Yann Arthus-Bertrand (born 1946)
painter, photographer, film director, journalist, balloonist, environmentalist
Henri Matisse (1869-1954)
painter, sculptor, printmaker, lithographer, drawer, ceramicist
Jean Arp (1886-1966)
painter, sculptor, poet, designer, photographer, jewelry designer, drawer
Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar (1891-1956)
economist, politician, constitutionalist, barrister, jurist, sociologist, anthropologist, pedagogue, philosopher, social reformer, journalist, revolutionary, professor, political scientist, scholar, orator, freedom fighter, historian, newspaper editor, civil rights advocate, humanitarian, human rights activist, educational theorist, spiritual leader, peace activist, autobiographer, theologian, painter, women's rights activist, bibliographer, essayist, scholar
Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz (1885-1939)
playwright, philosopher, photographer, painter, poet, art theorist, art historian
