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Title: Mark Rothko

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Mark Rothko

Mark Rothkos career that spanned five decades
and he created a new and impassioned form of
abstract painting. Rothko's work is characterized
by rigorous attention to formal elements such as
color, shape, balance, depth, composition, and
scale.

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Piet Mondrian

The Dutch artist Piet Mondrian was a pioneer in
this development. Each painting was worked and
reworked, built layer by layer toward an
equilibrium of form, color, and surface. Mondrian
named his style neoplasticism."
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Thomas Kinkade

Thomas Kinkade is America's most collected
living artist. Coming from a modest background,
Kinkade emphasizes simple pleasures and
inspirational messages through his paintings. As
a devout Christian, Kinkade uses his gift as a
vehicle to communicate and spread inherent
life-affirming values.

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Claude Monet

Claude Monet is generally considered to be the
most outstanding figure among Impressionists. The
term Impressionism derives from his picture
Impression Sunrise. A title was needed in a
hurry, Monet suggested simply Impression, and the
catalogue editor added an explanatory Sunrise.
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Vincent Van Gogh

Vincent van Gogh was a Dutch painter, classified
as a Post-impressionist, and is generally
considered one of the greatest painters in the
history of European art. His work shows the
objects, people and places in his life with bold,
usually distorted, draughtsmanship and visible
dotted or dashed brush marks.
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Leonardo da Vinci

Leonardo da Vinci-Italian painter, draftsman,
sculptor, architect, and engineer whose genius
epitomized the Renaissance humanist ideal. His
Last Supper and Mona Lisa are among the most
widely popular and influential paintings of the
Renaissance.

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Salvador Dali

Salvador Dali was Spanish painter who became a
leader of surrealism. His precisely realistic
style enhances the obsessively nightmarish effect
of many of his paintings.

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Paul Klee

Paul Klee, Swiss painter, graphic artist, and
art theorist. Klee's enormous production is
unique in that it represents the successful
combination of his sophisticated theories of art
with a very personal inventiveness that has the
appearance of great innocence.

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Marc Chagall

Marc Chagall, Russian painter. Chagall
assimilated cubist characteristics into his
expressionistic style. He is considered a
forerunner of surrealism.
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Henri Matisse

Henri Marisse, French painter, sculptor, and
lithographer. Along with Picasso, Matisse is
considered one of the two foremost artists of the
modern period. His contribution to 20th-century
art is inestimably great.

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Pablo Picasso
Pablo Picasso, Spanish painter, sculptor, graphic
artist, and ceramist, who worked in France. He is
generally considered in his technical virtuosity,
enormous versatility, and incredible originality
and prolificity to have been the foremost figure
in 20th-century art.

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Pierre-Auguste Renoir

Pierre Auguste Renoir, French impressionist
painter and sculptor. His early work reflected
myriad influences including those of Courbet,
Manet, Corot, Ingres and Delacroix.
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Henri Rousseau

Henri Rousseau, French primitive painter. He
was, from the first, entirely self-taught, and
his work remained consistently naive and
imaginative.

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Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, French painter and
lithographer. His own work is, graphic in nature,
the paint never obscuring the strong, original
draftsmanship.

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Andy Warhol

Andy Warhol, made the Campbell Soup can an art
object in the early '60s and created colored silk
screens of luminaries such as Marilyn Monroe and
Mao Zedong.

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Norman Rockwell

Norman Rockwell, American illustrator. Rockwell
specialized in warm and humorous scenes of
everyday small-town life. He developed a style of
finely drawn realism with a wealth of anecdotal
detail.

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Raphael

Raffaello Santi major Italian Renaissance
painter, In Raphael's work is the clearest
expression of the exquisite harmony and balance
of High Renaissance composition.
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Georgia O'Keeffe

Georgia OKeeffe, American painter. Her work was
first exhibited in 1916. Immaculate, sculptural,
organic forms painted in strong, clear colors
predominate in her works.

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Frida Kahlo

Frida Kahlo, Mexican painter. As a result of an
accident she turned her attention from a medical
career to painting. Drawing on her personal
experiences, her works are often shocking in
their stark portrayal of pain and the harsh lives
of women.

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Roy Lichtenstein

Roy Lichtenstein, American painter. Lichtenstein
derived his subject matter from popular sources
such as comic strips. His paintings reflect
modern typographic and printing techniques such
as Ben-Day dots and make innovative use of
commonplace imagery.

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Romare Bearden

Romare Bearden, American painter and collagist.
Bearden grew up in Harlem. In his work Bearden
attempted to come to terms with and universalize
the experience of African Americans.

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Alexander Calder

Alexander Calder, American sculptor, son of a
prominent sculptor, Alexander Stirling Calder.
Among the most innovative modern sculptors,
Calder was trained as a mechanical engineer.

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Henry Moore

Henry Moore, English sculptor. Moore's early
sculpture was angular and rough, strongly
influenced by pre-Columbian art. His works, in
wood, stone, and cement are characterized by
their smooth, organic shape and often include
empty hollows.

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Gustav Klimt

Gustav Klimt, Austrian painter. He cofounded the
Vienna Secession group and in 1897 became its
first president. In the following decade Klimt
became the foremost painter of art nouveau in
Vienna.

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M. C. Escher

M. C. Escher, Dutch artist. Primarily a graphic
artist, Escher composed works notable for their
irony, often with impossible perspectives
rendered with mechanical verisimilitude. He
created visual riddles, playing with the
pictorially logical and the visually impossible.

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Edgar Degas

Edgar Degas, French painter and sculptor.
Although prepared for the law, he abandoned it
for painting. He was precociously gifted as a
draftsman and a brilliantly subtle and
penetrating portraitist

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Georges Seurat

Georges Seurat, French neoimpressionist painter.
He devised the pointillist technique of painting
in tiny dots of pure color. His method, called
divisionism, was a systematic refinement of the
broken color of the impressionists.

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Rene Magritte

Rene Magritte, surrealist painter. Magritte
developed a style in which a misleading sort of
realism is combined with mocking irony. His
paintings are dominated by an intense quietude
and restraint, despite a startling juxtaposition
of images.

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Mary Cassatt

Mary Cassatt, American figure painter and
etcher. She allied herself with the
impressionists early in her career. Motherhood
was Cassatt's most frequent subject. Her pictures
are notable for their refreshing simplicity,
vigorous treatment, and pleasing color.

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Josef Albers

Josef Albers, German-American painter,
printmaker, designer, and teacher. Albers taught
throughout the Americas and Europe, headed the
art department at Black Mountain College, and was
director of the Yale School of Art.

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Jean Arp

Jean Arp, French sculptor and painter. Arp was
connected with the Blaue Reiter in Munich,
various avant-garde groups in Paris, including
the surrealists. He consistently created novel
and abstract forms in various mediabas-reliefs,
collages, painted cutouts, sculpture in the
round, and painted wood reliefs.

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Francis Bacon

Francis Bacon, English painter and self-taught
artist. He painted a series of variations on
figural themes, Van Gogh Goes to Work,
Velázquez's Innocent X. Often large in scale,
Bacon's works focus on shockingly grotesque and
brutally satiric themes.

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George Caleb Bingham
George Caleb Bingham, American genre painter and
politician. His family moved to Missouri, which
was the site of most of Bingham's activities. In
he studied for a short time at the Pennsylvania
Academy of the Fine Arts.
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William Morris

William Morris, English poet, artist, craftsman,
designer, social reformer, and printer. He has
long been considered one of the great Victorians
and has been called the greatest English designer
of the 19th cent.

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Edvard Munch

Edvard Munch, Norwegian painter and graphic
artist. He abandoned impressionism to portray
from his profound sense of isolation the themes
of death, fear, and anxiety. Munch said he heard
the scream of nature.

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Mark Rothko
http//www.nga.gov/feature/rothko/intro1.shtm
http//www.nga.gov/feature/rothko/classic2a.shtm
Piet Mondrian
http//www.artmuseums.harvard.edu/mondrian/career/
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Thomas Kinkade
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http//www.kinkadecentral.com/
Claude Monet
http//www.expo-monet.com/
http//www.intermonet.com/oeuvre/pontjapo.htm
Van Gogh
http//www.expo-vangogh.com/
http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vincent_van_Gogh