Cezanne
Post-Impressionist style artist
Main interest landscaping
MOUNT SAINTE-VICTORE, 1902-1904, OIL ON CANVAS
Claus Oldenburg
Swedish American sculptor of the 60's, best known for his public art installations typically featuring very large replicas of everyday objects: "Falling Shoestring Potatoes", giant plastic sculpture of pillow-soft telephones
Oldenburg produced 3-D imagery
David Smith
American sculptor of the postwar period. Took the formal ideas of Cubism and gave them an American vigor. His assembled metal sculpture balanced formal qualities with the elemental energy of Abstract Expressionist painting.
Abstract Expressionist sculptor
Francesco Goya
Experienced some of the worst aspects of the Napoleonic era of the French Revolution
THE THIRD OF MAY, 1808, 1814, OOC
Frank Lloyd Wright
Most influencial twentieth century American architect, born in Wisconsin, radical innovator, responsible for the Guggenheim Museum, and Imperial Hotel in Tokyo
Considered America's greatest architect. Pioneered the concept that a building should blend int
Georges Braque
Twentieth century French painter and sculptor who, with Pablo Picasso, developed Cubism, and Analytical and Synthetic Cubism.
THE PORTUGUESE, 1911, OOC
HOUSE AT L'ESTAQUE, 1908,OOC
Georges Seurat
French painter who developed pointilism during the post impressionist period (divisionism) (1859-1891)
His art influenced twentieth century expressionist styles
Influenced formalist styles
Work based on observations of nature
A SUNDAY ON LA GRANDE JATTE,
Grant Wood
Iowa's most famous American artist. 3 of the 5 final ideas for the State quarter came from his paintings. Those paintings were "American Gothic" "Young Corn" and "Arbor Day"
One of the most famous portrayals of America's rural life of the mid-west, and du
Gustave Courbet
French painter most famous member of realist school. Painted only things that he saw. Phrase "Realism" was coined in reaction to one of his paintings. All of his works represented everyday life.
THE STONE BREAKERS, 1849, OOC
Henri Matisse
French painter and sculptor, (1869-1954), of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. He is known for his brilliant colors and bolt brush strokes and had a major influence on modern art.
An extreme Fauves Abstract Expressionist, leader of "the b
Claude Monet
French painter who used a Impressionism called
"Super-realism," capture overall impression of the thing they were painting.
IMPRESSION: SUNRISE, 1872, OOC
ON THE BANK OF THE SENE, BENNECOURT, 1868, OOC
Jackson Pollack
Leading innovator of Abstract Expressionism, studied in the 1930's. He dripped, poured, and flung his paint.
He began "action painting" by painting on huge canvases spread out on the floor?
AUTHUM RHYTHM (NUMBER 30), 1950, OOC
Jacques Louis David
Led the way to revolutions in both art and politics. He believed that arts should serve as a political purpose in a time of social and governmental reform, he rejected what he saw as the frivolous immorality associated with the arisocratic Rococo style. U
Jasper Johns
Produced simple works of art based on common graphic forms such as targets, maps, flags, and numbers. He was interested in the difference between emblems that carry meaning and art. In his art, common signs play a dual role: they have the power of Abstrac
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
Founder of THE BRIDGE. He developed a style that incorporated Cubism, African sculpture, and German Gothic art. German expressionist painter (1880-1938), Flat color, diaganol lines, acidic colors, isolationist, heavy black shapes. painted the street
STREE
Marilyn Levine
Creates works of clay that look like real leather (3-D objects)
Ms. Levine's Funk phase included sculptures of shoes and sneakers oozing bright glaze. When a friend brought her his beat-up work shoes, she began to see old leather objects as metaphors for
Rene Magriite
Belgium Surrealist who used an illogical form of realism, similar to Dalf's in surface appearance but quite different content. Her paintings engaged the viewer in mind teasing mystery and playful humor.
PORTRAIT, 1935, OOC
Piet Mondrian
A Dutch-born twentieth-century artist known for his geometric paintings characterized by perpendicular lines and planes of pure primary colors. Influenced by cubism, he created a style called "neoplasticism," which he used in works such as Composition wit
Paul Gauguin
Twentieth century artist, French post-impressionist painter who worked in the South Pacific (1848-1903)
Pioneered expressionist techniques. Saw form and design of a painting as important in themselves. Became famous for his paintings of the South Pacific.
Renoir
French impressionist painter; nude female paintings
THE LUNCHEON OF THE BOATING PARTY, 1881, OOC
Roy Lichtenstein
Prominent American pop artist. His work was heavily influenced by both popular advertising and the comic book style. He himself described pop art as, "not 'American' painting but actually industrial painting".
DROWNING GIRL, 1963, OIL ON SYTHETIC PLOYMER
Salvadore Dali
Spanish Surrealist who made art out of his nightmares
Painted Inventions of the monsters & The Persistence of Memory - surrealism (meant to represent the world of subconscious and dreams) both have Freudian references to repressed terror, violence, apathy
Vincent van Gogh
Twentieth-century Dutch post impressionist painter noted for his use of color (1853-1890)
Introduced lighter and brighter paintings
Self taught, but attended an art academy in Anthwerp, Belgium. There he met French Impressionist, and Post Impressionist pa
Wasily Kandinsky
Artist who used an abstract style of painting. Lived in Munich between 1908 and 1914, who shared with his German associates a concern for developing an art that would turn people away from false values, but toward spiritual rejuvenation. He believed that