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Artist, Architects And Their Work Flashcards

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American architect: Lincoln Memorial

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Henry Bacon 1866-1924

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Italian painter, known for concentration online, depth of a feeling, delicacy of style: Birth of Venus, tempera on canvas

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Sandro Botticelli 1445-1510

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Romanian pioneer of abstract sculpture: Bird in Space, in marble

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Constantine Brancusi 1876-1957

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Founder of Renaissance style in architecture: Pazzi Chapel in Santa Croce, Florence

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Fillipo Brunelleschi -1377-1446

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American Impressionist painter, soft surface, snapshot visioning paintings, subjects almost exclusively female: The Bath, oil on canvas

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Mary Cassatt 1845-1926

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French post-impressionist painter, used color to construct form, painted abstractly, “Father of modern Art”: Still life with Apples and Oranges, Woman with the Coffeepot, oil on canvas

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Paul Cezanne 1839-1906

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Sexual symbolism, master of draftsmanship and color: The Persistence of Memory (the melting clock picture), oil on canvas

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Salvador Dali 1904-1989

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Known as David, Lococo painter, revival of classicism: Oath of the Horatti, Death of Morat, oil on canvas

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Jaquess Louis David 1748-1825

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Renaissance Italian painter, sculptor, architectural engineer, inventor: Last Supper,oil and tempera on plaster: Mona Lisa, oil on panel

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Leonardo da Vinci 1452-1519

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French Impressionist painter, did not share the Impressionist interest in landscape, fascinated by the dance, known for his paintings of dance: The Rehearsal, oil on canvas

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Edgar Degas 1834-1917

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leading sculptor in Italy, one of the founders of the new Renaissance style: David,bronze sculpture: Mary Magdelaine in gilded wood

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Donato di Niccolo Bardi 1386?-1466 Commonly known as Donatello,

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French engineer: Eiffel Tower

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Gustav Eiffel 1832-1923

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No formal art training, departed from Western artistic tradition, return to archaic, primitive styles: The Day of the God, Vision After the Sermon, oil on canvas

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Paul Gauguin 1848-1903

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romantic Spanish painter: The Third of May, 1808, At Madrid, The Shootings on Principe Pio Mountain, oil on canvas

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Known as Goya, Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes-1746-1828

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Bulgarian earth artist, packages inert objects in nature and plastic and fabric: Surrounded Islands, Biscayne Bay, Greater Miami, Florida, woven synthetic fabric, 6 million square feet

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Christo Javachef 1935-

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American architect: Monticello in the style of the neoclassic temple

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Thomas Jefferson 1743-1826

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Greatest of art Nouveau painters: The Kiss

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Gustav Klimt

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English American architect and engineer: Waterworks of Philadelphia, and assisted in the design and construction of the Capitol building in Washington, DC

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Benjamin Latrobe 1764-1820

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Creator of the basic body of Versaillesin France, later expanded and altered by others

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Louis Le Vau -1612-1670

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American pop artist, “comic strip art”: Wham, Two Panels, magna on canvas

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Roy Lichtenstein 1923-1997

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French impressionist painter, forefather of Impressionism: Luncheon on the Grass, A Bar at the Folies-Beegere, Oil on canvas

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Edward Manet 1832-1883

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French Expressionist, experimented with simplified figures, masses stated with bold areas of pigment, brilliant color: The Green Stripe, oil and tempera on canvas

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Henri Matisse 1869-1954

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Mannerist Italian painter, known for the distortion in his renderings: Madonna with the Longneck, panel pain

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Commonly known Parmigianino, Francisco Mazzola 1503-1540

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Baroque Italian painter, known for his naturalism, hard pictorial style, but mostly for his intense light and dark contrast: Conversion of St. Paul, oil on canvas

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Known as Caravaggio,Michelangelo Merisi 1573-1610

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Renaissance Italian painter, sculptor: David, marble sculpture: ceiling fresco for the Sistine Chapel

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Commonly known as Michelangelo, Michelangelo Buonarroti 1475-1564

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American architect: Washington Monument: US Treasury

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Robert Mills 1781-1855

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Dutch painter, master of the De Stijl movement, reduced all formal elements to flat surfaces bounded by straight lines intersected at right angles, colors and black, white, gray, and primary colors: Composition, oil on canvas

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Piet Mondrian 1872-1944

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French impressionist painter painted outdoors, began with reality and painted into it the objective perception of color: Nympheas (Water Lilly’s) Rouen Cathedral in Full Sunlight, oil on canvas

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Claude Monet 1840-1926

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English sculptor, adaptation of empty spaces in Cubist structure:Interior-Exterior Reclining Figure, in bronze

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Henry Moore 1898-1986

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Norwegian painter, forerunner of expressionism, themes involving sex and death, psychological subjects: The Scream, oil on canvas

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Edvard Munch 1863-1944

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American modern painter, free flow of rhythmic shapes, known for her studies of flowers: Blue and Green Music, oil on canvas

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Georgia O’Keeffe 1887-1986

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Father of Cubism: Les Demoiselles d’Avigon: Seated Woman, oil on canvas

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Pablo Ruiz y Picasso 1881-1973

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American abstract expressionist painter, free motion of arm, drip painting, used gobs of color, “action painting”: Blue Poles, oil, Duco, and aluminum paint on canvas

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Jackson Pollock 1912-1956

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American pop artists, used objects in his works: Tropeze, oil on canvas with silkscreen

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Robert Rauschenberg 1925-

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Baroque Dutch painter, known for his spirituality in art, radiant light against and through warm, glowing, vibrant shadow: Supper at Emmaus, Return of the Prodigal Son, both oil on canvas

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Rembrandt van Rijn 1906-1969

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French Impressionist painter, known for the warm, physical delight, enjoyment of the movement of light and air in his paintings: Le Moulin de la Galette, oil on canvas

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Pierre Auguste Renoir 1842-1919

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American architect and engineer: St. Patrick’s Cathedral in New York: Smithsonian Institution in Washington

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James Renwick Jr 1818-1895

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Impressionist sculptor exclusively concerned with the human figure, particularly in the moments of great physical and emotional stress: The Age of Bronze, The Kiss in marble

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Auguste Rodin 1840-1917

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Baroque Flemish painter, in many ways of his paintings, the figures form a spiral up into the picture: Raising of the Cross, center panel of a triptych

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Peter Paul Rubens 1577-1640

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high Renaissance Italian painter, his ideals of figural and compositional harmony came to be recognized as the high Renaissance principles: School of Athens, fresco: Madonna of the Meadows, panel painting

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Commonly known as Raffael, Raffaello Sanzio 1483-1520

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American pop artist, began as a painter, abandoned color almost entirely in his sculptural treatment of the human figure: The Bus Riders, plaster, metal, and vinyl

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George Segal 1924-2000

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French postimpressionist painter, began with divisionism, in which each touch of the brush represents a separate color so the shades mix only in the eye, not on the palette, later developed into pointillism: Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte, oil on canvas

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George Pierre Seratt 1859-1891

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born in Crete, recreated in contemporary Renaissance style in the Byzantine pictorial tradition: Resurrection: The Burial of Count Orgaz, Toledo, all oil on canvas

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Domenikos Thetokopoulos 1544-1614 Commonly known as El Greco,

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American artisan, known for his stained-glass creations

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Louis Comfort Tiffany 1848-1933

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Early Renaissance Flemish painter known for the naturalism, minute detail, and representation of atmospheric space in his works: Ghent Altarpiece, 20 panels, oil

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Jan van Eyck 1385-1441

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Dutch post-impressionist painter, used thick pigment, blazing color, strong strokes: Starry Night: The Night Café, oil on canvas

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Vincent van Gogh 1853-1890

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high Renaissance painter in Venice, established color as the major determinant in his paintings: Venus of Urbino: Man With the Glove: Sacred and Profound Love, all oil on canvas

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Tiziano Vecellio 1490-1576 Commonly known as Titian,

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Spanish Baroque painter, known for his optical method of painting, nature is revealed to human vision through light: Las Merinas, oil on canvas

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Known as Velazquez, Diego Rodriguez de Silva y Velazquez 1599-1660

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American pop artist, specialized in the boring, impersonal, mechanized sameness: Marilyn Monroe,Eight Elvises, oil, acrylic and silkscreen enamel on canvas

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Andy Warhol 1930-1987

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American architect: Solomon R Guggenheim Museum

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Frank Loyd Wright 1867-1959

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