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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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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

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Michelangelo

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all his life he thought he was a sculpter

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michelangelo

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A colleague set him up for failure by recommending to paint the Sistine chapel

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michelangelo

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Used the fresco technique-painting on direct wet plaster- the painting becomes part of the wall

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michelangelo

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the painting took 4 years and he stood with his head leaned back all those years

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michelangelo

30
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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

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michelangelo

31
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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.

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michelangelo

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Mexican mother and german father

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Frida

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suffered from polio at age 5 left her weak and with a stub leg

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Frida

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Her father kept her in activities and sports to push her physical limitations

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frida

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planned to study medicine until her bus accident

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frida

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impaled by steel rod and had to go through many surgeries pain and bed rest.

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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

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frida

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Painted what she saw and felt

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frida

39
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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

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frida

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people find her work disturbing and gross but it shows how she struggles as a woman, wife, and human.

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frida

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“I paint self-portraits because I am so often alone because I am the person I know best.

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frida

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son of two teachers, oldest of twins the other died at young age

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diego

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showed early talent for drawing and benefitted from government programs supporting the arts in that time in Mexico.

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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.

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diego

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in europe he studied the renaissance fresco art

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diego

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circa 1907 spent time in spain and paris, met picasso, braque, modigliani.

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diego

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“I never believed in god, but i believe in picasso”

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diego

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picasso influenced his adopted style.

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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

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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

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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

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diego

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worked with fresco technique but had some issues with the paint sticking. combined realism and renaissance figures

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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.

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diego

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married frida kahlo

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diego

55
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commissions dried up in Meixco and he was required to take commissions from the US.

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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.

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diego

57
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he painted a crossroads version in mexico with lenin in it

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diego

58
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was a very curious child, ate dirt

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georgia

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had 4 sisters her mother encouraged their love and interest in art

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georgia

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attended art school at the chicago art institute then transfered to NY arts student league

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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.

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georgia

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fell in love with the landscape there and continued to pursue art on her own time.

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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

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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.

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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

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georgia

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1930 several years after her marriage she visited a friend in NM and fell in love with the landscape.

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georgia

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Known for his colorful works depicting commonplace objects pies, lipsticks, paint cans, ice cream cones, pastries, and hot dogs

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wayne

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started out interning at Disney studios in California and as a commercial artist

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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

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wayne

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Thought of himself as a painter, not an artist, and believed that words should be special.

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wayne

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