15 Artist-Inspired Baby Names for Your Creative-in-Training
Your idea of paradise is an empty museum, and please, you don’t need an app to distinguish a Rembrandt from a Rubens. You’re an art lover. Here, 15 baby names that will tickle the fancy of fans of abstract expressionism, portraiture, sculpture and everything in between.
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Georgia
For a girl
Let’s just say there are worse people to be named for than the woman widely considered the mother of American modernism, Georgia O’Keeffe.
Andrew
For a boy
Depending on your preference, this classic moniker could refer to painter Wyeth or pop artist Warhol.
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Diego
For a boy
In addition to being known for his volatile marriage to Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera helped establish the Mexican mural movement.
Stella
For a girl
For fans of the painter, sculptor and printmaker Frank Stella, of course.
Jackson
For a boy
We always did think Pollock’s drip paintings looked a little like they were done by a kid.
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Paul
For a boy
With predecessors like Cézanne, Gauguin and Klee, Paul seems destined for artistic greatness.
Ray
For a boy
The famed visual artist was born Emmanuel Radnitzky, but we like Man Ray a little bit more.
Annie
For a girl
Here’s hoping she’ll have the same knack for portraiture as Ms. Leibovitz.
Kara
For a girl
Conceptual artist Kara Walker received a MacArthur fellowship at age 28 and has been named one of Time Magazine’s 100 Most Influential People. So yeah, big shoes.
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Leonardo
For a boy
Like Da Vinci before him, we’re predicting great things for little Leo.
Cindy
For a girl
Photographer and director Cindy Sherman’s real name is Cynthia, but no one has to know that.
Martin
For a boy
Last names count, too, especially when they belong to the Canadian-born American abstract painter Agnes Martin.
Gustav
For a boy
You can call him Gus, though we’re not sure his namesake, the Austrian painter Klimt, would’ve been so casual.
Renee
For a girl
Think of this pretty nomme as the girl version of Rene, as in Belgian surrealist painter René Magritte.
