Artists Flashcards
The Eclipse of the Sun, used color and perspective to evoke uneasiness
George Grosz
The Hunters in the Snow, Fall of Icarus, painting have deep focus and depth cues, composition/framing
Pieter Bruegel the Elder
The Americans, known for his unconventional, spontaneous, imperfect photographs
Robert Frank
Vertigo, known for his stylized titlecards
Saul Bass
American Horror Story, known for his titlesequences
Kyle Cooper
Mexican photographer known for nude photogeaphs, photographs have deep focus
Manuel Alvarez Bravo
German painter known for landscape paintings, paintings have deep focus and depth cues
Albert Bierstadt
Renaissance painter known for composition, geometry, and vanishing point in paintings
Piero della Francesca
Scroll painting, chinese painter known for telling story through painting, not a lot of depth to painting
Zhang Zeduan
Known for cubism paintings
David Hockney
La Jetee, used photo montage to tell stories
Chris Marker
Strike, father of montage (editing), used motifs, focuses on using camera creatively
Sergei Eisenstein
Twin Peaks, known for stylized shots, uses color and ambiance
David Lynch
Marie Antoinette, stylized, uses color
Sofia Coppola
Once Upon a Time in the West, known for framing and composition and motifs
Bernardo Bertolucci
Silence of the Lambs, known for sound design
Jonathan Demme
Raging Bull, The Big Shave, stylized dramatic films, uses music, wants to draw you in
Martin Scoresese
Benny’s video, known for realistic films, does not use much sound or crazy camera movements, austere sound
Michael Haneke
All that Heaven Allows, Uses the camera/camera movements to focus on actors
Douglas Sirk
Raise the Red Lantern, rule of thirds, framing
Zhang Yimou
Out of Sight, known for motivated camera movement
Steven Soderbergh
The Verdict, known for realistic films
Sidney Lumet
Screenwriter/playright known for writing beats into scripts
David Mamet
Nazi known for Olympic diving sequence
Leni Riefenstahl
Known for using color in his photographs
William Eggelston
Director and famous stuntman known for comedies in which he focused on actors, films resembled plays
Buster Keaton
French photographer, photographs showed depth
Louis Dagguere
Train short horror film, Inventors of the cinematograph, pioneered film
Auguste & Louis Lumiere
Horse photographs, Experimented with photography, captured motion, pioneered sequences
Eadweard Muybridge
