Art Flashcards

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Andy Warhol ethnicity

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American

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Michelangelo ethnicity

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Italian

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Frida Kahlo ethnicity

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Mexican

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Diego Rivera ethnicity

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Mexican

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Georgia O’keeffe ethnicity

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American

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Wayne Thiebaud ethnicity

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American

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Very sickly as a child

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Andy Warhol

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Father paid for college

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Andy

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9
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Went to Carnegie institute to study art

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Andy

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had two main goals in life, recognized as a fine artist and wanted to be famous

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Andy

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After graduating he worked as a commercial artist doing advertisements and product design

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Andy

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His friend recommended him to paint the Campbell’s soup can

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Andy

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His work came along during the end of the Abstract expressionist movement

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Andy

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Pop art based on popular images, easily recognizable objects.

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Andy

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Considered the Father of Pop alongside Jasper, Roy, Lichtenstein, Wayne thiebaud.

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Andy

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Started painting but then went to silk screening to produce more faster.

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Andy

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Studio known as the factory because it was like a art factory and because it used to be a hat factory.

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Andy

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Achieved fame and notoriety he always wanted

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Andy

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He was shot by a employee only to survive and then die a year later from gallbladder surgery

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Andy

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Mother died when he was young

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Michelangelo

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Raised by a nanny and her stone-cutter husband, this is how he found his marble love

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Michelangelo

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Grew up and worked during the renaissance in italy (the center of the art world)

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Michelangelo

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when he was 12 he was apprenticed to an artist

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Michelangelo

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when he was 14 he was employed as an artist

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Michelangelo

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at age 24 he had sculpted the pieta
Michelangelo
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all his life he thought he was a sculpter
michelangelo
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A colleague set him up for failure by recommending to paint the Sistine chapel
michelangelo
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Used the fresco technique-painting on direct wet plaster- the painting becomes part of the wall
michelangelo
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the painting took 4 years and he stood with his head leaned back all those years
michelangelo
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Ceiling is broken up in various parts, nine stories from the bible and other various characters along the sides, the architecture of the ceiling is a painted illusion
michelangelo
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Ceiling is considered the pinnacle of his career and one of the best examples of the works created during the high renaissance.
michelangelo
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Mexican mother and german father
Frida
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suffered from polio at age 5 left her weak and with a stub leg
Frida
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Her father kept her in activities and sports to push her physical limitations
frida
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planned to study medicine until her bus accident
frida
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impaled by steel rod and had to go through many surgeries pain and bed rest.
frida
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Her father was a amatuer artist and photographer and bult her a special easel she could paint in bed, also had no artistic training
frida
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Painted what she saw and felt
frida
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took paintings to diego who was painting a mural at her school, to see if she had any talent, they later married and have a off/on relationship ending in divorce only to be married 2 years later
frida
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people find her work disturbing and gross but it shows how she struggles as a woman, wife, and human.
frida
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"I paint self-portraits because I am so often alone because I am the person I know best.
frida
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son of two teachers, oldest of twins the other died at young age
diego
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showed early talent for drawing and benefitted from government programs supporting the arts in that time in Mexico.
diego
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Attended a state funded art academy and participated in competitions, he then won a scholarship and traveled and studied art in europe.
diego
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in europe he studied the renaissance fresco art
diego
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circa 1907 spent time in spain and paris, met picasso, braque, modigliani.
diego
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"I never believed in god, but i believe in picasso"
diego
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picasso influenced his adopted style.
diego
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in paris he had a baby and affair with russian woman, developed an interest in communism and joined the party
diego
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Circa 1920 abandoned cubism, and befriended an art critic that believed artists should contribute to the advancement of society by painting propaganda
diego
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went back to Mexico ALONE, the Mexican officials were thrilled to have an artist of his caiber come to create paintings FOR THE PEOPLE
diego
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worked with fresco technique but had some issues with the paint sticking. combined realism and renaissance figures
diego
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Precolumbian subjects and styles of his native land he wanted to idealize the ordinary Mexican people and celebrate their Indian heritage.
diego
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married frida kahlo
diego
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commissions dried up in Meixco and he was required to take commissions from the US.
diego
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painted "Man at crossroads" Rockefeller center lobby with democracy and communism. but had Lenin on it, so they paid him the money and he stopped so it ould be destroyed.
diego
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he painted a crossroads version in mexico with lenin in it
diego
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was a very curious child, ate dirt
georgia
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had 4 sisters her mother encouraged their love and interest in art
georgia
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attended art school at the chicago art institute then transfered to NY arts student league
georgia
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after graduating she took a job as a texas art teacher, the only job proper for a woman in the art world.
georgia
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fell in love with the landscape there and continued to pursue art on her own time.
georgia
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Sent work back to a friend in NYC who showed them to Alfred Stieglitz a photographer and gallery owner-a man she would eventually marry, she was furious
georgia
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Stieglitz thought her work was different from anything he has ever seen secured her a patron in NY that allowed her to return and paint full-time. This is when she started her flower series.
georgia
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She would change the size of the flowers by enlarging them and cropping them to fill the large canvas on which she worked
georgia
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1930 several years after her marriage she visited a friend in NM and fell in love with the landscape.
georgia
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Known for his colorful works depicting commonplace objects pies, lipsticks, paint cans, ice cream cones, pastries, and hot dogs
wayne
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started out interning at Disney studios in California and as a commercial artist
wayne
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wor was considered by many people as pop art but not by him. he considered it a study in composition
wayne
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Thought of himself as a painter, not an artist, and believed that words should be special.
wayne