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    Eugene Delacroix
    Led French Romantic Movement
    Uses expressive brush strokes and emphasis on color rather than clarity of outline and form.
    Use of intense areas of light.
    Giorgio Chirico
    Giorgio Chirico
    Known for his contributions to the world of metaphysical painting
    Had a lot of influence on surrealist painters
    Jacob Lawrence
    Jacob Lawrence
    Used flattened figurative shapes and bright contrasting colors to depict scenes related to the experience of African Americans
    John Constable
    John Constable
    English landscape painter.
    Used natural color stippled with white to demonstrate changing seasons and weather
    Jean Corot
    Jean Corot
    Active member of the Barbizon School, a group of naturalist landscape painters in France
    Pivotal figure in landscape painting
    Hi work both references the Neo-Classical tradition and anticipates the plein-air innovations of Impressionism.
    Nam June Paik
    Nam June Paik
    First video artist
    Robert Mapplethorpe
    Robert Mapplethorpe
    Known for large-scale, highly stylized black and white portraits, photos of flowers and nude men, along with celebrity portraits and homoerotic subjects.
    Diego Rivera
    Diego Rivera
    Mexican painter know for painting Social / political murals. Helped establish the Mexican Mural Movement.
    Jean Michel Basquiat
    Jean Michel Basquiat
    Artist born in NY, of a Haitian + Puerto Rican descended, who started as a graffiti artist in and evolved into an acclaimed Neo-expressionist and Primitivist painter
    Salvador Dali
    Salvador Dali
    A Spanish surrealist artist and one of the most important painters of the 20th century. He was a skilled draftsman, best known for the striking, bizarre, and beautiful images in his surrealist work.

    His painterly skills are often attributed to the influence of Renaissance masters.

    Vincent Van Gogh
    Vincent Van Gogh
    Dutch postimpressionist painter noted for his use of color (1853-1890).

    Experimented with sharp brush lines and bright colors.

    “I put my heart and my soul into my work, and have lost my mind in the process.”
    -Van Gogh

    Diego Rivera
    What Mexican artist painted murals in Detroit, New York, and San Francisco?
    Frida Kahlo
    Frida Kahlo
    famous female artist from Mexico whose art work was influenced by the personal tragedies in her life.
    Married to Diego Rivera
    Diego Rivera
    Mexican Muralist who created artworks in Mexico and the U.S. focusing on political messages.

    Rembrandt
    Rembrandt
    Dutch painter who painted portraits of wealthy middle class merchants and used sharp contrasts of light and shadow to draw attention to his focus 1606-1669
    Francis Bacon
    Francis Bacon
    Expressionism
    semi-abstracted figures, fondness of triptychs and disturbing themes.
    Alexander Calder
    Alexander Calder
    Kinetic Sculpture.

    Invented the mobile

    Alexander Calder
    This artist created sculptures that moved in space.
    Christo
    Christo
    Created large land works many consisting on wrapping vast natural areas.

    create new ways of seeing familiar landscapes.

    El Greco
    El Greco
    (1541-1614)
    a.

    Greek artist who did most of his greatest work in
    Spain
    b. Perhaps the greatest of the Mannerists with his use
    of elongated figures and unnatural pigments
    c. Burial of Count Orgaz (1586-88) and Toledo (1597)
    are two important examples of his work

    Thomas Eakins
    Thomas Eakins
    Realism
    Specialized in painting the everyday lifes of working-class men and women and used the new technology of serial-actions photographs to study human anatomy and paint it more realistically.
    Piet Mondrian
    Piet Mondrian
    Dutch painter whose work (intersecting lines at right angles and planes in primary colors) influenced the development of abstract art (1872-1944)
    wassily kandinsky
    wassily kandinsky
    was a Russian painter, printmaker and art theorist. One of the most famous 20th-century artists, he is credited with painting the first modern abstract works.
    marcel duchamp
    marcel duchamp
    [1887-1968] French painter who became a prominent exponent of DaDa created shocking pieces with his readymades -found objects.
    He painted a mustache on the Mona Lisa which he called L.H.

    O.O.Q

    leonardo da vinci
    Italian painter, engineer, musician, and scientist. The most versatile genius of the Renaissance, Leonardo filled notebooks with engineering and scientific observations that were in some cases centuries ahead of their time.

    As a painter Leonardo is best known for The Last Supper (c. 1495) and Mona Lisa (c. 1503).

    First to study and record the human body through pictures and paintings.

    He was a scientist, inventor, and artist. Born in Vinci, Italy on APril 15th, 1452.

    donatello
    donatello
    This sculptor created sculptures that were a naturalistic variation on classical sculpture. He also brought back free-standing statues, which required greater anatomical detail and accuracy. His pieces are easily characterized by long, flowing robes.
    Verrochio
    Verrochio
    sculptor, scupted ‘david’ depicted undeveloped, jewish boy david and florence’s freedom loving spirit. boy stands challenging over goliath’s head
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    Pritzker Prize-winning Chinese-born American architect, known as the last master of high modernist architecture.
    Joseph Beuys
    Joseph Beuys
    was a German performance artist, sculptor, installation artist, graphic artist, art theorist and pedagogue of art.
    His extensive work is grounded in concepts of humanism, social philosophy.
    His career was characterized by passionate, even acrimonious public debate, but he is now regarded as one of the most influential artists of the 20th century.

    claes oldenburg
    claes oldenburg
    A pop artist who produced soft sculptures of gigantic everyday objects made of canvas and vinyl such as food, toilets and mixers.
    James Whistler
    James Whistler
    (1834-1903) A member of the realist movement, although his works were often moody and eccentric. Best known for his Arrangement in Black and Grey, No.1, also known asWhistler’s Mother.

    Edgar Degas
    Edgar Degas
    A nineteenth-century French painter and sculptor. Among his preferred subjects were ballet dancers and scenes of cafe life.

    Henry Moore
    Henry Moore
    British Abstract Sculptor He was the most influential and famous scuplturer of his generation; Famous for his large abstract forms..

    .

    Louise Nevelson
    Louise Nevelson
    assembled found objects and wood scraps in boxes, stacked together to make one large composition.

    usually painted in black and white

    Paul Gaugin
    Paul Gaugin
    a post-Impressionist artist (1848-1903), Gaugin, who was susceptible to depression, thought that European art lacked deep symbolism, and he was therefore drawn to the art forms in different lands such as South America, Japan, and Africa. Some of his paintings include “Where Do We Come From?” and “The Yellow Christ.

    claude monet
    claude monet
    a French painter who used a impressionism called “super-realism,” capture overall impression of the thing they were painting
    Romare Bearden
    Romare Bearden
    1. Images concerned with his own personal experiences, history, literature, and art
    2. Lived during the Harlem Renaissance, affect by intellectual, artistic, and political happenings
    3. Collages use a lot of materials: fabrics, paper, foil, photographs, etc
    Blaue Reiter, Der (The Blue Rider)
    a group of avant-garde German Expressionists
    Brucke, Die (The Bridge)
    German Expressionist painters from Dresden working c.

    1905

    French curves
    Inspired a famous series of works by Frank Stella in the early 1980’s. Designs that are created using flat drafting tools with curved edges and voluted cut-outs.
    Barnett Newman
    Barnett Newman
    Known for his abstract expressionist works that were created with blocks of color and vertical lines, that he referred to as zips.
    The Fourteenth Street School of New York City
    Refers to the work of Kenneth Hayes Miller and his students in the mid-1900’s. All members were realists in the tradition of the Italian Renaissance.
    Josiah Wedgwood
    A prominent English potter instrumental in raising pottery and china to a fine art.

    Frederic-Auguste Bartholdi
    Frederic-Auguste Bartholdi
    built the Statue of Liberty
    Nam June Paik
    Who was the first video artist, often associated with video installations?
    Erich Lessing
    An Austrian photographer associated with Magnum Photos, who photographed politics in postwar communist Europe.
    Aaron Douglas
    Aaron Douglas
    A Harlem Renaissance painter whose work celebrates African American versatility and adaptability, depicting people in a variety of settings. 1899-1979
    Paula Modersohn-Becker
    Paula Modersohn-Becker
    A German painter and one of the most important representatives of early expressionism.
    The Limbourg brothers
    Très Riches Heures is a Gothic Book of Hours painted in part by whom?
    James Van Der Zee
    James Van Der Zee
    The most accomplished, comprehensive black photograph in history.

    His style was stark realism and dreamy romanticism. Know for photographs of Harlem, NY.

    Kathe Kollwitz
    Kathe Kollwitz
    German Expressionist whose work offered an eloquent and often searing account of the human condition, and the tragedy of war, in the first half of the 20th century.
    Jenny Holzer
    Jenny Holzer
    conceptual artist known for incorporating text into her work
    Basquiat
    Basquiat
    Neo expressionist artist
    e began as an obscure graffiti artist in New York City in the late 1970s and evolved into an acclaimed Neo-expressionist and Primitivist painter by the 1980s.
    Robert Smithson
    Robert Smithson
    constructed the Spiral Jetty
    William Blake
    painter and printmaker of Romantism.Blake is held in high regard by later critics for his expressiveness and creativity, and for the philosophical and mystical undercurrents within his work.
    Works:
    The Song of Los
    The Lovers Whirlwind
    Ancient of Days
    Thomas Gainsborough
    a British portrait and landscape painter.
    Works:
    The Blue Boy
    Poussin’s Arcadian Shepherds
    Possin was a French painter in the classical style.

    Themes of tragedy and death are prevalent in Poussin’s work.[13] Et in Arcadia ego, a subject he painted twice (second version is seen at right), exemplifies his cerebral approach. In this composition, idealized shepherds examine a tomb inscribed with the title phrase, which is usually interpreted as a memento mori: “Even in Arcadia I exist”, as if spoken by personified Death.

    What artists were influenced by Japanese prints?
    Degas and Cassett
    List pop artists
    Rothko, Warhol and Litchenstein
    What surrealist was known for strange juxtaposition and use of scale?
    Rene Magritte
    Julio Gonzalez
    head sculpture- use of metal and negative space
    Who designed the Barcelona chair?
    Mies Van
    der Rohe (and Lilly Reich).

    Frank Lloyd Wrights Prairie house was influenced by what style?
    Japanese art and buildings
    Who made large portraits of friends?
    David Hockney
    Mexican Diego Rivera was Known for painting what?
    Social Murals
    What is color field painting?
    Name some artists.
    Color Field painting is a style of abstract
    painting in which dominates form and texture.
    Helen Frankenthaler
    Mark Rothko
    Clyford Still
    Sam Gilliam
    Characteristics of Holy Trinity by Massacio
    ..

    .

    Name Depression Artists
    Eli Jacob, Jack Markow and James Turnbull Diego Rivera, Stuart Davis Thomas Benton
    Picasso’s “Les Demoiselles d’Avignon”is inspired by what?
    African masks
    Who was the Harlem Renaissance artist who photographed Harlem?
    Van Der Zee
    Name Abstract Expressionist Artists
    Kandinksky
    Gorky
    Hoffman
    Graham
    Pollock
    Willem de Kooning,
    Philip Guston
    What was ‘Pointillism’, which artists are associated with it, and how did it make use of new knowledge in Color Theory?
    Pointillism is a form of painting in which tiny dots of primary-colors are used to generate secondary colors. It is very similar to Divisionism, except that where Divisionism is concerned with color theory, Pointillism is more focused on the specific style of brushwork used to apply the paint.
    Artists:
    Gerorges Seurat
    Paul Signac
    Henri Edmond Cross
    Who is I.

    M. Pei?

    Chinese architect, designed Pyramide du Lourve
    How did Frida Kahlo’s life experiences come into her artwork?
    Drawing on personal experiences, including her marriage, her miscarriages, and her numerous operations, Kahlo’s works often are characterized by their stark portrayals of pain.
    She combined elements of the classic religious Mexican tradition with surrealist renderings
    Rodin
    Sculptor. was a naturalist, less concerned with monumental expression than with character and emotion.

    [42] Departing with centuries of tradition, he turned away from the idealism of the Greeks, and the decorative beauty of the Baroque and neo-Baroque movements. His sculpture emphasized the individual and the concreteness of flesh, and suggested emotion through detailed, textured surfaces, and the interplay of light and shadow.

    Albrecht Dürer
    Albrecht Dürer
    is considered one of the greatest printmakers of all time. Working with both woodcuts and copper engravings, he attained a level of detail that is virtually unsurpassed.
    Known prints:
    The Four Horsemen of the Acoplycolase
    The Knight, The Death and the devil
    Melencholia
    St. Jerome
    Joseph Beuys
    was a German performance artist, sculptor, installation artist, graphic artist, art theorist and pedagogue of art.

    Artwork: Performance : How to Explain Pictures to a Dead Hare

    Why is Michelangelo considered one of the world’s greatest artistic talents?
    his versatility in the disciplines he took up was of such a high order that he is often considered a contender for the title of the archetypal Renaissance man,
    Eugène Delacroix
    Eugène Delacroix
    Liberty Leading the People, 1830
    Rembrandt
    Rembrandt
    Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Nicolaes Tulp, 1632
    Jacques-Louis David
    Jacques-Louis David
    (30 August 1748 – 29 December 1825) was an influential French painter in the Neoclassical style, considered to be the preeminent painter of the era.

    Marked the shift from Rococo towards Classical austerity. David was the strongest influence in French art of the early 19th century on academic Salon painting.

    Oath of Horatii
    Oath of Horatii
    Jacques-Louis David (1784)
    considered a paradigm of Neoclassicism.
    The Death of Marat
    The Death of Marat
    Jacques-Louis David (1793) Neoclassical
    One of the most famous images of the French Revolution.

    Francisco De Goya
    (30 March 1746-16 April 1828) was a Spanish romantic painter and printmaker regarded both as the last of the Old Masters and the first of the moderns. The subversive imaginative element in his art, as well as his bold handling of paint, provided a model for the work of later generations of artists, notably Manet, Picasso and Francis Bacon.
    The Third of May 1808
    The Third of May 1808
    Francisco De Goya (1814) -Romanticism
    Diverging from the traditions of Christian art and traditional depictions of war, it has no distinct precedent. The painting’s content, presentation, and emotional force secure its status as a groundbreaking, archetypal image of the horrors of war.
    Saturn Devouring His Children
    Saturn Devouring His Children
    (modern painting referring to Goya’s painting) c. 1819-1823
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturn_Devouring_His_Son
    Newton
    Newton
    William Blake 1795.
    Grande Odalisque
    Grande Odalisque
    Ingres 1814 -Neoclassical
    Ingres’ contemporaries considered the work to signify Ingres’ break from Neoclassicism, indicating a shift toward exotic Romanticism.
    Ingres
    Ingres
    French Neoclassical artist.

    He assumed the role of a guardian of academic orthodoxy against the ascendant Romantic style.

    The Slave Ship
    The Slave Ship
    J.

    M.W. Turner 1840
    English Romantic maritime painting.

    John Constable
    John Constable
    e (11 June 1776 – 31 March 1837) English Romantic Painter. Inspired the Barbizon School. Along with Turner considered to inspire both the Impressionist and Realist movements.

    J.M.W Turner
    (23 April 1775 – 19 December 1851) was a British Romantic landscape painter. Was considered a controversial figure in his day, but is now regarded as the artist who elevated landscape painting to an eminence rivalling history painting.

    His work is regarded as a Romantic preface to Impressionism.

    The Blue Boy
    The Blue Boy
    Thomas Gainsborough 1770
    The Thinker
    The Thinker
    Rodin 1902
    Barbizon school
    part of an art movement in France towards Realism in art, which arose in the context of the dominant Romantic Movement. Tonal variations, minimal color, loose brushwork and softness of form.
    Artist:
    Rosa Bonheur
    Jean-Baptiste Corot
    Millet
    The Gleaners
    The Gleaners
    Millet 1857
    Barbizon school
    Barabara Kruger
    Barabara Kruger
    Melencholia
    Melencholia
    Albrecht Dürer 1514
    Albrecht Dürer
    The Knight, The Death and the devil
    The Knight, The Death and the devil
    Albrecht Dürer
    Poussin, Nicolas
    Poussin, Nicolas
    the leading painter of the classical French Baroque style. His work is characterized by clarity, logic, and order, and favors line over color.

    Most of his works are history paintings of religious or mythological subjects that very often have a large landscape element. 1594-1665

    Daumier, Honore
    Daumier, Honore
    was a French printmaker, caricaturist, painter, and sculptor, whose many works offer commentary on social and political life in France in the 19th century.

    Rue Transnonain
    Rue Transnonain
    Honore Daumier, 1834
    Gustave Courbet
    Gustave Courbet
    a French painter who led the Realist movement in 19th-century French painting. The Realist movement bridged the Romantic movement (characterized by the paintings of Théodore Géricault and Eugène Delacroix) with the Barbizon School and the Impressionists. Courbet occupies an important place in 19th century French painting as an innovator and as an artist willing to make bold social commentary in his work. Worked directly from photographs.

    Burial At Ornans
    Burial At Ornans
    Gustave Courbet, 1849-50 realist
    Manet, Edouard
    Manet, Edouard
    One of the first 19th-century artists to approach modern and postmodern-life subjects, he was a pivotal figure in the transition from Realism to Impressionism. (1832 -1883)
    Olympia
    Olympia
    Manet, Edouard 1863
    refer to Titian’s “Venus of Urbino”
    Titian
    Titian
    an Italian painter, the most important member of the 16th-century Venetian school. One of the most versatile of Italian painters, equally adept with portraits, landscape backgrounds, and mythological and religious subjects. His painting methods, particularly in the application and use of color, would exercise a profound influence not only on painters of the Italian Renaissance, but on future generations of Western art.

    1488-1576

    Venus of Urbino
    Venus of Urbino
    Titian. 1538 Renaissance
    Hokusai
    a Japanese artist, ukiyo-e painter and printmaker of the Edo period.

    Printed with woodblock and watercolor. Perfect registration. 1760-1849
    Influenced Manet and impressionists towards flatter style of depth in imagery.

    Little White Girl
    Little White Girl
    Whistler, 1864

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