Artists Flashcards

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created large land works many consisting on wrapping vast natural areas, Created new ways of seeing familiar landscapes.

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Greek artists who did most of his greatest work in Spain. Greatest of his Mannerist artwork with his use of elongated figures and unnatural pigments - burial of Count Orgaz and Toledo are two important examples of his work

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specialized in painting the everyday life of working-class men and women and used the new technology of serial-actions photographs to study human anatomy and paint it more realistically

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Dutch painter whose work (intersecting lines at right angles and planes in primary colors) influenced the development of abstract art. (1872-1944)

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Russian Painter, printmaker, and art theorist One of the most famous 20th century artists, he is credited with painting the 1st modern abstract works

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1887-1968 French painter who became a prominent exponent of Dada created shocking pieces with his readymade found objects, like the Fountain painted the mustache on Mona Lisa which he called L.H.O.O.Q.

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Italian painter, engineer, musician, scientist, inventor filled notebooks with engineering and scientific observations that were in some cases ahead of their time Best known for the Last Supper (1495) and Mona Lisa (1503). First to study and record the human body through pictures and paintings born in Vinci, Italy in April 15th 1452

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sculptor, sculptured "David", depicted underdeveloped, jewish boy David and florence's freedom loving spirit boy stands challenging over Goliath's head

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Pritzier Prize winning Chinese-born American architect, known as the last master of high modernist architecture

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German performance artist, sculpturer, installation artist, graphic artist, art theorist, and pedagogue of art. His extensive work in grounded in concepts of humanism social philosophy. Career was characterized by passionate, even acrimonious public debate, but he is now regarded as one of the most influential artists of the 20th century.

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A pop artist who produced soft sculptures of gigantic everyday objects made of canvas and vinyl such as food, toilets, and mixers

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a member of the realist movement, although his works were often moody and eccentric best known for his arrangement in Black and Grey, No. 1. also known as Whistler's Mother

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a nineteenth century French Painter and sculptor. Among his preferred subjects were ballet dances and scenes of cafe life inspired by Japanese prints and exposure to photography led him to compose work so that the subject matter appears cropped

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British Abstract Sculptor who was the most influential and famous sculpture of his generation. Famous for his large abstract forms

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assembled found objects and wood scraps in boxes, stacked together to make one large composition, usually painted in black and white

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post impressionist artist (1848-1903) who was susceptible to depression, thought that European art lacked deep symbolism and he was therefore drawn to the art forms in different lands such as South America, Japan, and Africa. "Where do we come from. what are we. where are we going" "Yellow Christ"

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French Painter who used a impressionism called "super realism" capture overall impression of the thing he was painting impressionist painter painted waterlilies, Rouen Cathedral series, and haystacks series

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Images concerned with his own personal experiences, history, literature, and art lived during the Harlem Renaissance, affected by intellectual, artistic, and political happenings collages use a lot of materials: fabrics, paper, foil, photographs, etc.

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inspired famous series of works by Frank Stella in the early 1980's. Designs that are created using flat drafting tools with curved edges and vaulted cut-outs

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known for his abstract expressionist works that were created with blocks of color and vertical lines, that he referred to as zips

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refers to the work of Kenneth Hayes Miller and his students in the mid 1900s. All members were realists in the tradition of the Italian Renaissance

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built Statue of Liberty

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A Harlem Renaissance painter whose work celebrates African American versatility and adaptability, depicting people in a variety of settings 1899-1979

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The most accomplished comprehensive black photographer in history. His style was stark realism and dreamy romanticism. Known for photographs of Harlem NY

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German Expressionist whose work offered an eloquent and often searing account go the human condition, and the tragedy of war, in the 1st half of the 20th century she was in Hannah Hoch's cut with a kitchen knife collage

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Conceptual artist known for incorporating text into her work

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constructed the Spiral Jetty

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painter and printmaker of Romanticism held in high regard by later critics for his expressiveness and creativity, and for the philosophical and mystical undercurrents within his work works: The Song of Los, The lovers Whirlwind, Ancient of Days

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A British portrait and landscape painter works: The Blue Boy

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French painter in the classical baroque style Themes of tragedy and death are prevalent in Poussin's work Work: Et in Arcadia Ego subject he painted twice, exemplifies his cerebral approach idealized Shepards examine a tomb inscribed with the title, phrase, which is usually interpreted as a memento mori "Even in Arcadia, I exist" as if spoken by personified death his work is characterized by clarity, logic, and order. favors line over color

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Mary Cassatt, Edgar Degas, Edouard Manet, Van Gogh, Henri Lautrec, James Whistler

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Rothko, Warhol, Litchenstein

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known for strange juxtaposition and use of scale Work: Time Transfixed

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head sculpture - use of metal and negative space

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designed the Barcelona Chair both modernist designers with ties to the Bauhaus Barcelona Chair is an example of Bauhaus inspired design and was created for the German Pavillon at the International Exposition of 1929 hosted by Barcelona Spain Bauhaus was a German design school that famously combined fine arts, craft, and industrial design Bauhaus style had a profound influence on Modernist architecture and modern design.

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American architect and designer his Prairie house was influenced by Japanese art and buildings designed the guggenheim museum exterior

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English painter, draughtsman, printmaker, stage designer, and photographer one of the most influential British artists of the 20th and 21st centuries Works: Portrait of An Artist (Pool with Two Figures)

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Artists: Helen Frankenthaler, Mark Rothko, Clyford Still, Sam Gilliam Color Field Painting is a style of abstract painting in which it dominates form and texture. It Is different than abstract expressionism because these artists eliminated both the emotional, mythic, or religious content of the earlier movement and the highly personal and painterly or gestural application associated with it

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first painter in Renaissance to incorporate Brunelleschi's linear perspective, in his art he did it in the Holy Trinity in his fresco orthogonal can be seen in the edges of the coffers in the ceiling use of forms of classical architecture

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Kandinsky, Gorky, Hoffman, Graham, Pollock, Williem de Kooning, Philip Guston

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George Seurat, Paul Signac, Henri Edmond Cross

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naturalist sculptor who was less concerned with monumental expression than with character and emotion He turned away from the idealism of the Greeks and the decorative beauty of the Baroque and Neo baroque movements his sculpture emphasized the individual and concreteness of flesh, and suggested emotion through detailed, textured surfaces, and the interplay of light and shadow works: the Thinker

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is considered one of the greatest printmakers of all time did both woodcuts and copper engravings and attained great level of detail known prints: The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, the Knight, The Death and the Devil, Melancholia, and St. Jerome

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Italian Painter, sculptor, architect, and poet of the High Renaissance his versatility in the disciplines he took up was of such a high order that he is often considered a contender for the title of the archetypal Renaissance man

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influential French painter in the Neoclassical style, considered to be the preeminent painter of the era marked the shift from Rococo towards classical austerity strongest influence in French art of the early 19th century on academic Salon painting Works: Oath of Horat, The Death of Marat

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Spanish Romantic painter and printmaker regarded as both the last of the Old Masters and the first of the moderns subversive imaginative element in his art, as well as his bold handling of paint, provided a model for the work of later generations of artists, notably Manet, Picasso, and Francis Bacon Works: The Third of May 1908

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French Neoclassical artist assumed the role of a guardian of academic orthodoxy against the ascendant Romantic style

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British Romantic landscape painter was considered a controversial figure in his day, but is now regarded as the artist who elevated landscape painting to an eminence rivaling history painting his work is regarded as a Romantic preface to Impressionism Works: The Slave Ship

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Japanese artist, ukiyo-e painter and printmaker of the Edo period printed with woodblock and watercolor, perfect registration influenced Manet and impressionists towards flatter style of depth in imagery

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He was one of the most versatile of Italian painters because he could paint portraits, landscapes, backgrounds, and mythological and religious subjects. the most important member of the 16th century Venetian school his painting methods, particularly in the application and use of color, would be a great influence not only on painters of the Italian Renaissance, but on future generations of Western art Works: Venus of Urbino

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one of the 1st 19th century artists to approach modern and post modern life subjects pivotal figure in the transition from Realism to Impressionism Works: Olympia

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a French painter who led the Realist movement in the 19th century France the realist movement bridged the Romantic movement with the Barbizon School and the Impressionists occupies an important place in 19th century French painting as an innovator and as an artist willing to make bold social commentary in his work; worked directly from photographs

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French printmaker, caricaturist, painter, and sculptor, whose many works offer commentary on social and political life in France in the 19th century works: Rue Transnonain

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American conceptual artist and collagist associated with the Pictures Generation most known for her collage style that consists of black and white photographs, overlaid with declarative captions, stated in white on red Futura Bold Oblique or Helvetica Ultra Condensed text

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part of an art movement in France towards Realism in art, which arose in the context of the dominant Romantic Movement Tonal variations, minimal color, loose brushstrokes, and softness of form Artists: Rosa Bonheur, Jean-Baptitse Corot, Miller

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a leading architect of the Italian Renaissance and generally recognized as being the 1st modern engineer Brunelleschi's major architectural work was the massive dome he designed and constructed for the Cathedral of Santa Maria del Fione (the Duomo) of FLorence his development of 1 point perspective greatly contributed to the ability of the Renaissance artists to depict deep pictorial space on a 2d surface

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- key member of first Dada then Surrealism in Europe in the 1910s and 1920s - Used a variety of mediums - painting, collage, printmaking, sculpture, and various unconventional drawing methods - He combined illusionistic technique with a cut and paste logic to make believable expressing disjunctions of the mind - He often used automatic techniques to free his unconscious imagination and provide inspiration for new subject matter - In some of his later work, such as Europe after the Rain II, he experimented with a process called decalcomania to create the foliage like patterns that provided the basis for this strange and dreamlike landscape

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British neoclassical architect, interior designer, and furniture designer The decorative motifs of the 18th century architect Robert Adam are most similar to those found on Wedgewood pottery Adam style: use of ornament, light and fanciful, insistence and stylistic coherence across every element of his interiors

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French post impressionist painter The abstraction typical of Analytic Cubism has roots in the work of Paul Cezanne

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Known for appropriating nostalgic kitsch objects into his sculptural work his balloon dog sculptures for ex, are enormous stainless steel replicas as a cheap inflated souvenir one might find at a carnival

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contemporary artist known for creating large scale artworks that encompass a variety of media The Cremaster cycle is an epic multimedia extravaganza that includes feature films, sculpture, photographs, installation, an performance art

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Beginning as NYC street and subway art in the early 1980s, Keith Haring's colorful cartoonish motifs commented on popular culture and contemporary issues such as Aids, sexual orientation, and drug addication

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Italian painter whose work is best characterized by its dramatic use of light and gritty naturalism

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extremely successful 17th century Italian sculptor, painter, and architect His Corner Chapel, commissioned by Cardinal Federico Cornaro is considered a masterpiece of the Baroque style

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18th century painter and graphic artist who produced series of pictures that functioned chiefly as social satire

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American painter and printmaker she was invited by Degas to join the group of independent artists later known as the Impressionists exhibited in 4 of their 8 shows she was influenced by Japanese prints and with exposure to photography, she was one of the artists who adapted the strategy of cropping the subject matter