[ { "Name": "Yamato Takehiko", "Birth Year": "1055", "Death Year": "1135", "Nationality": "Japan", "Notable Works": "Shuji Suisho", "Style": "Kana", "Influences": "Taira no Kiyomori" }, { "Name": "Zhang Zhi", "Birth Year": " \"1186\"", "Death Year": " \"1260\"", "Nationality": " \"China\"", "Notable Works": " \"Regular Script\"", "Style": " \"Xingkai\"", "Influences": " \"Wang Xizhi\"" }, { "Name": "William Morris", "Birth Year": "1834", "Death Year": "1896", "Nationality": "England", "Notable Works": "The Kelmscott Press", "Style": "Arts and Crafts", "Influences": "Gothic Revival" }, { "Name": "Suzuki Sh\u014dnen", "Birth Year": "1851", "Death Year": "1918", "Nationality": "Japan", "Notable Works": "Calligraphy Research", "Style": "Sumi-e", "Influences": "Zen Buddhism" }, { "Name": "Edward Johnston", "Birth Year": "1872", "Death Year": "1944", "Nationality": "England", "Notable Works": "William Morris's Kelmscott Press", "Style": "Humanist", "Influences": "Gothic Revival" }, { "Name": "Sheikh Hamad Al-Thani", "Birth Year": "1952", "Death Year": NaN, "Nationality": "Qatar", "Notable Works": "Qatar National Museum Calligraphy", "Style": "Contemporary", "Influences": "Islamic Art" }, { "Name": "Abu Ali al-Hasan ibn al-Haytham", "Birth Year": "965", "Death Year": "1040", "Nationality": "Iraq", "Notable Works": "Optics", "Style": "Various Scripts", "Influences": "Islamic Golden Age" }, { "Name": "Li Bai", "Birth Year": "701", "Death Year": "762", "Nationality": "China", "Notable Works": "The Poems of Li Bai", "Style": "Chinese Calligraphy", "Influences": "Taoism" }, { "Name": "Wang Xizhi", "Birth Year": "303", "Death Year": "361", "Nationality": "China", "Notable Works": "Lantingji Xu", "Style": "Regular Script", "Influences": "Confucianism" }, { "Name": "John Stevens", "Birth Year": "1700", "Death Year": "1741", "Nationality": "USA", "Notable Works": "The Art of Calligraphy", "Style": "Penmanship", "Influences": "American Colonial" }, { "Name": "Kojiro Ikegami", "Birth Year": "1895", "Death Year": "1977", "Nationality": "Japan", "Notable Works": "Modern Japanese Calligraphy", "Style": "Sumi-e", "Influences": "Calligraphy Techniques" }, { "Name": "Lisa Engelbrecht", "Birth Year": "1953", "Death Year": NaN, "Nationality": "USA", "Notable Works": "The Art of Brush Lettering", "Style": "Contemporary", "Influences": "Brush Lettering" }, { "Name": "Beatrix Potter", "Birth Year": "1866", "Death Year": "1943", "Nationality": "England", "Notable Works": "Peter Rabbit Series", "Style": "Illustrated Calligraphy", "Influences": "Victorial Style" }, { "Name": "Alberto Giacometti", "Birth Year": "1901", "Death Year": "1966", "Nationality": "Switzerland", "Notable Works": "Sculptural Calligraphy", "Style": "Surrealism", "Influences": "Abstract Expressionism" }, { "Name": "U Thant", "Birth Year": "1909", "Death Year": "1974", "Nationality": "Burma", "Notable Works": "Preface on Calligraphy", "Style": "Diplomatic Calligraphy", "Influences": "Buddhism" }, { "Name": "Zhou Enlai", "Birth Year": "1898", "Death Year": "1976", "Nationality": "China", "Notable Works": "Calligraphy of Zhou Enlai", "Style": "Regular Script", "Influences": "Mao Zedong" }, { "Name": "Henri Matisse", "Birth Year": "1869", "Death Year": "1954", "Nationality": "France", "Notable Works": "Jazz Series of Prints", "Style": "Artistic Lettering", "Influences": "Fauvism" }, { "Name": "Jacques Derrida", "Birth Year": "1930", "Death Year": "2004", "Nationality": "Algeria/France", "Notable Works": "Writing and Difference", "Style": "Philosophical Calligraphy", "Influences": "Deconstructionism" }, { "Name": "Usee Yamakawa", "Birth Year": "1894", "Death Year": "1963", "Nationality": "Japan", "Notable Works": "Kyoto Calligraphy", "Style": "Sumi-e", "Influences": "Traditional Styles" }, { "Name": "Maya Angelou", "Birth Year": "1928", "Death Year": "2014", "Nationality": "USA", "Notable Works": "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings", "Style": "Literary Calligraphy", "Influences": "Personal Narrative" }, { "Name": "Norihiro Matsuda", "Birth Year": "1943", "Death Year": NaN, "Nationality": "Japan", "Notable Works": "Modern Japanese Calligraphy", "Style": "Kanji Maid", "Influences": "Traditional Japanese" }, { "Name": "Charles Rennie Mackintosh", "Birth Year": "1868", "Death Year": "1928", "Nationality": "Scotland", "Notable Works": "Mackintosh Furniture", "Style": "Art Nouveau", "Influences": "Architectural Influence" }, { "Name": "Mary E. L. Wright", "Birth Year": "1878", "Death Year": "1934", "Nationality": "USA", "Notable Works": "Lyman Beecher", "Style": "Formal Calligraphy", "Influences": "American Civil Society" }, { "Name": "Ruth M. F. Dunham", "Birth Year": "1947", "Death Year": NaN, "Nationality": "USA", "Notable Works": "The Spirit of Calligraphy", "Style": "Contour Lettering", "Influences": "Expressive Forms" }, { "Name": "Zari A. Al-Khaldi", "Birth Year": "1970", "Death Year": NaN, "Nationality": "Saudi Arabia", "Notable Works": "Quran Inscriptions", "Style": "Arabic Script", "Influences": "Islamic Culture" }, { "Name": "Natsume S\u014dseki", "Birth Year": "1867", "Death Year": "1916", "Nationality": "Japan", "Notable Works": "Kokoro", "Style": "Literary Calligraphy", "Influences": "Meiji Era" }, { "Name": "Mark Twain", "Birth Year": "1835", "Death Year": "1910", "Nationality": "USA", "Notable Works": "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn", "Style": "Penmanship", "Influences": "American Literature" }, { "Name": "Ferdinand de Lesseps", "Birth Year": "1805", "Death Year": "1894", "Nationality": "France", "Notable Works": "Suez Canal Plans", "Style": "Architectural Calligraphy", "Influences": "Civil Engineering" }, { "Name": "Shinsei Sakuma", "Birth Year": "1901", "Death Year": "1980", "Nationality": "Japan", "Notable Works": "Modern Haiku", "Style": "Sumi-e", "Influences": "Poetic Calligraphy" }, { "Name": "Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec", "Birth Year": "1864", "Death Year": "1901", "Nationality": "France", "Notable Works": "Posters and Prints", "Style": "Art Nouveau", "Influences": "Visual Calligraphy" }, { "Name": "Hiroshi Yoshida", "Birth Year": "1876", "Death Year": "1950", "Nationality": "Japan", "Notable Works": "Woodblock Prints", "Style": "Sumi-e", "Influences": "Traditional Japanese" }, { "Name": "Claude Monet", "Birth Year": "1840", "Death Year": "1926", "Nationality": "France", "Notable Works": "Impression, Sunrise", "Style": "Artistic Calligraphy", "Influences": "Impressionism" }, { "Name": "Frederick G. Hibbard", "Birth Year": "1881", "Death Year": "1946", "Nationality": "USA", "Notable Works": "Lincoln Memorial Engravings", "Style": "Sculptural Calligraphy", "Influences": "Public Art" }, { "Name": "Goethe Muzaffer", "Birth Year": "1930", "Death Year": "1999", "Nationality": "Turkey", "Notable Works": "Turkish Poetry", "Style": "Contemporary", "Influences": "Folkloric" }, { "Name": "Adolf Loos", "Birth Year": "1870", "Death Year": "1933", "Nationality": "Austria", "Notable Works": "Ornament and Crime", "Style": "Modernism", "Influences": "Architectural Writing" }, { "Name": "Keith Haring", "Birth Year": "1958", "Death Year": "1990", "Nationality": "USA", "Notable Works": "Public Murals", "Style": "Street Art", "Influences": "Contemporary Compositions" }, { "Name": "Rainer Maria Rilke", "Birth Year": "1875", "Death Year": "1926", "Nationality": "Austria", "Notable Works": "Letters to a Young Poet", "Style": "Literary Calligraphy", "Influences": "Modernist" }, { "Name": "Annie Leibovitz", "Birth Year": "1949", "Death Year": NaN, "Nationality": "USA", "Notable Works": "Photography and Calligraphy", "Style": "Photo-Lettering", "Influences": "Contemporary Artist" }, { "Name": "Yoko Ono", "Birth Year": "1933", "Death Year": NaN, "Nationality": "Japan", "Notable Works": "Conceptual Art", "Style": "Conceptual Calligraphy", "Influences": "Avant-garde" }, { "Name": "Mark Rothko", "Birth Year": "1903", "Death Year": "1970", "Nationality": "Latvia/USA", "Notable Works": "Color Field Painting", "Style": "Abstract Expressionism", "Influences": "Visual Art" }, { "Name": "Lucian Freud", "Birth Year": "1922", "Death Year": "2011", "Nationality": "Germany/UK", "Notable Works": "Figurative Painting", "Style": "Contemporary Calligraphy", "Influences": "Realism" }, { "Name": "Roberto Burle Marx", "Birth Year": "1909", "Death Year": "1994", "Nationality": "Brazil", "Notable Works": "Landscape Architecture", "Style": "Tropical Calligraphy", "Influences": "Modernism" }, { "Name": "David Hockney", "Birth Year": "1937", "Death Year": NaN, "Nationality": "UK", "Notable Works": "Painting and Photography", "Style": "Contemporary", "Influences": "Visual Calligraphy" } ]