Famous Artists

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Famous Artists
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Michelangelo

• Sistine Chapel
• Sculptor and painter
• Renaissance period
• Last Judgement

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Michelangelo
http//www.science.wayne.edu/mcogan/Humanities/Si
stine/Panels/jesse.jpg
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Michelangelo
http//www.science.wayne.edu/mcogan/Humanities/Si
stine/Panels/zech.jpg
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Leonardo da Vinci

• Sculptor, inventor and painter (Known as a
  Renaissance man)
• Renaissance period
• Mona Lisa
• Last Supper

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Leonardo da Vinci
http//www.kfki.hu/arthp/html/l/leonardo/painting
/z_other/index.html
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Leonardo da Vinci
http//www.parisdigest.com/museums/Joconde.htm
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Rembrandt

• Used light and shadow
• End of Renaissance period
• Self-portraits

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Rembrandt
http//www.artchive.com/artchive/R/rembrandt/ostri
ch_feather.jpg.html
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Rembrandt
http//www.oldmaster-paintings.com/rembrandt-self1
640.html
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Pierre-Auguste Renoir

• Impressionist painter
• Enjoyed painting people

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Renoir
http//www.oir.ucf.edu/wm/paint/auth/renoir/lady-p
iano.jpg
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Renoir
http//www.artic.edu/aic/collections/eurptg/25pc_r
enoir.html
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Cezanne

• Leading painter of 19th century
• Post Impressionist
• Emphasized light but differently than Monet

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Cezanne
http//www.artchive.com/artchive/C/cezanne/mt_prov
.jpg.html
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Cezanne
http//www.artchive.com/artchive/C/cezanne/appsorg
s.jpg.html
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Cassett

• Impressionist
• Worked with DeGas
• Subjects were often women and children
• Used pastel colors

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Cassett
http//gcclearn.gcc.cc.va.us/gossweiler/art2/sld03
7.htm
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Cassett
http//foxborough.k12.ma.us/fpsweb/IGO/IGOArtPages
/IGOVirtualMuseum/strawhat.html
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Van Gogh

• Dutch painter
• Expressionism period
• Used radiant, vibrant colors
• Used choppy paint strokes
• Starry Night

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Van Gogh
http//www.bc.edu/bc_org/avp/cas/fnart/art/19th/va
ngogh/vangogh_starry1.jpg
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Van Gogh
http//www.bc.edu/bc_org/avp/cas/fnart/art/19th/va
ngogh/vangoghsunflow1.jpg
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Paul Gauguin

• Friend of Van Gogh
• Expressionism period
• Primitive style of art
• Colorful and symbolic forms of native islands

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Paul Gauguin
http//www.nga.gov/cgi-bin/pimage?9216700
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Paul Gauguin
http//www.nga.gov/cgi-bin/pimage?9216700
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Claude Monet

• 1840-1926
• Impressionist French Artist
• Impressionism focuses on the use of light

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MonetHaystack at Chailly at Sunrise
http//www.oir.ucf.edu/wm/paint/auth/monet/haystac
ks/matin.jpg
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MonetWaterlillies
http//www.oir.ucf.edu/wm/paint/auth/monet/waterli
lies/monet.wl-clouds.jpg
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Georges Seurat

• Pointillism
• Sunday Afternoon

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La Grande Jatte
http//timelookingaround.files.wordpress.com/2008/
11/8227_186708.jpg
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Georges Seurat
http//www.wuppertal.de/von-der-heydt-museum/useit
en/daueraustell.htm
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James Whistler

• Whistlers Mother
• Used black and white

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James Whistler
http//www.webshots.com/photos/016995.html
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Georgia OKeefe

• Nature scenes and abstract art
• Paints in Southwestern area of United States

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Georgia OKeefe
http//gcclearn.gcc.cc.va.us/gossweiler/art2/sld03
9.htm
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Picasso

• Father of abstract art
• Blue period
• Early coincides with Expressionism
• Painter of Cubism

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Picasso
http//www.tamu.edu/mocl/picasso/tour/tl02.html
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Picasso
http//www.netspace.org/users/julia/art_page/artis
ts/picasso/picasso.html
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Cubism

• Art movement between 1907-1911
• 20th Avante-garde art movement
• Pioneered by Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque

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Le_guitariste--Picasso
http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FileLe_guitariste.jp
g
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Juan GrisPortrait of Picasso
http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FileJuan_Gris_-_Port
rait_of_Picasso.jpg
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Braque Woman
http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FileBraque.woman.400
pix.jpg
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Georgia OKeefe
http//gcclearn.gcc.cc.va.us/gossweiler/art2/sld03
9.htm
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Andy Warhol

• 1928-1987
• Conceptual Artist and leading figure in Pop Art.
• Coined the phrase Fifteen Minutes of Fame.

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Campbell Soup 1
http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FileWarhol-Campbell_
Soup-1-screenprint-1968.jpg
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Jackson Pollock

• 1912-1956
• Major force in the abstract Expressionist
  Movement

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No. 5
http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FileNo._5,_1948.jpg
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Helen Frankenthler

• 1928 -
• American Abstract Artist

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Mountains and Sea
http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FileFrankenthaler_He
len_Mountains_and_Sea_1952.jpg