Artists Flashcards
Used great detail, bright colors, and a beautiful shine on art. Painted Ghent altarpiece.
Jan Van Eyke
Italian sculptor, architect, musician, engender, and scientist. Painted the Mona Lisa.
Leonardo da Vinci
Italian painter, sculptor, architect, and poet. Worked on the ceiling of the Sistene chapel and painted The last Judgement (one version).
Michelangelo
Italian renaissance painter. Painted churches, mansions, palaces, and at least ten tapestries. Painted Biblical images.
Raphael
Venetian Renaissance painter. Painted Assumption of the Virgin. Influenced 20th century art.
Titian
Known for dramatic foreshadowing, exaggerated poses, sketchy figure style, and use of strong, vivid light effects/movements.
Tintoretto
Painted genres with moralizing significance. Painted The fall of the Rebel Angels.
Pieter Bruegel (Elder)
Copied his fathers works.
Pieter Bruegel (Younger)
Specialized in still life art. Paintings are characterized by extreme smoothness and finesse.
Jan(Velvet) Bruegel
Studied under Titian. Religious painter. Expressionistic style employed flamelike lines, bright highlights, and belonged/distorted figures. Used vibrant colors against grays and earthy tones for dramatic effect.
El Graco
Italian baroque Painter. painted religious works/portraits. Used low society models for his works. Painted partly illuminated figures against a dark background.
Carvaggio
Foremost Flemish painter of the 17th century. Taught many artists, including Van Eyke. Added finishing touches to artworks. Used bold colors, much detail, and a sense of movement/liveliness.
Peter Paul Rubens
French painter. Experimented with the baroque style and studied the mannerist style. Painted Death of a Phocion and Seven Sacraments.
Poussin
Italian sculptor/architect. Could make a marble block look like a real human.
Bernini
Spain’s greatest Baroque artist. Painted Christ and the Pilgrims of Emmause, Borrachos, and Joseph’s coat. (Also did a series of dwarves)
Velazquez.
Dutch painter, portraitist, etcher, landscape painter, and draftsman. Paintings are dark and the main focus is lit. Painted The night Watch, Bathsheba, and Three Crosses.
Rembrandt
Dutch landscape master/foremost colorist. Used tiles of contrasting colors, such as black and white, and mainly painted woman at work. Painted The Milkmaid.
Vermeer
English portraitist and landscape artist. Pastoral backgrounds and fancily dressed ladies and gentlemen. Painted Peasant Girl Gathering Sticks.
Thomas Gainsborough
Romantic landscape painter, watercolorist, and printmaker. Founded Impressionism. Known as “The Painter of Light” (first of that name).
William Turner
French painter and draftsman. Painted historical works and book illustrations. Painted Death of Sardanapalus and Massacre at Chios.
Delacroix
Paints beautiful, enchanting paintings of woman and children of a bygone era. Calming, wistful, nostalgic. Used mythological themes.
Bouguereau
French painter who painted things that caused public outcry. Drew what the eye saw at a glance (no transitional tones).
Manet
French painter and sculptor. Gifted draftsman and portraitist. Combined classical art and impressionism. Painted woman, ballet dancers, people in motion, etc. Off-center subjects/unusual angles.
Degas
American lithographer, magazine illustrator, landscape, marine, and genre painter. War correspondent. Portrays real, daily life.
Winslow Homer
Genre and portrait painter. Mostly drew elegant ladies and interiors. (Married Charles Dicken’s daughter).
Perugini
French painter. used a palette knife for creating thick, textured paintings with dreamlike dimensions and violent shapes.
Paul Cezanne
French landscape painter. A founder of Impressionism. Art looked fuzzy/unfinished. Concentrated on showing variations of light and atmosphere caused by changes of hour/season.
Monet
Popular American artist known for his realistic Civil War scenes.
Edward Henry
French impressionist painter/sculptor. Painted hoyful, shimmer colors and flickering light in outdoor scenes, showing people is a happy, busy setting.
Pierre Renoir
American figured painter, paste list, and etcher. Painted about motherhood.
Mary Cassatt
French painter, impressionist, and woodcut artist. Synthetist theory of art. Used flat planes and vivid, unnatural colors with primitive/symbolic meanings.
Paul Gauguin
American artist. Compared to Rockwell for drawing, detail, and nostalgia. Painted colonial American scenes and Revolutionary War scenes.
Jennie Brownscombe
English artist who influenced neo-classical painters. Portrayed classical and baroque styles, and painted Shakespearean themes.
F. Sydney Muschamp
English painter. Specialized in regency and medieval subjects.
Edmund Leighton
Post impressionist painter. “Mad genius.” Dark, earthy-toned paintings in beginning but evolved to bright toned paintings.
Vincent Van Gogh
American portraitist. Known for textured paintings. Captured life of the subjects.
John Singer Sargent
French neoimpressionist painter. Created pointillist technique (painting and entire picture with tiny dots).
George Seurat
French painter and lithographer. Works are graphic in nature, detailing life in Parisian brothels, cabarets, circuses, and music halls. Made posters for the Moulin Rouge.
Henri Lautrec
French painter, sculptor, and lithographer. Leader of fauvism (artist used remarkable, vivid, and lavish colors).
Henri Matisse
Spanish painter, sculptor, graphic artist, and ceramist. Abstract artist.
Picasso
French painter/printmaker. Used elements of cubism, symbolism, and fauvism.
Marc Chagall
Art director of ‘A Boys Life.’ Known for capturing Americans in day to day life.
Norman Rockwell
Spanish surrealist painter. Nightmarish effect with paintings.
Salvador Dali
Painter, filmmaker, and leading artist if the 1960’s pop art movements. Blurred lines between fine art and mainstream aesthetics. Used blotted lines and rubber stamps for his drawings. (Campbell soup).
Andy Warhol
American painter. Second “Painter of Light.” Painted gardens, streams, cottages, lighthouses, snowscenes, and churches.
Thomas Kincade
Paints kitchen garden images and creates fabric collections. Enjoys painting English cottages.
Diane Knott
Portrait artist who uses large brush strokes and bright colors. Details in face similar to Sargent but doesn’t focus on clothing/background.
Del Gish
