Interesting Facts About Artists Flashcards
Willem De Kooning
Women 1 1950 - 1952
To make the women 1 it took 200 tries
Females on billboards partly inspire the women 1
Hans Hofmann
The Gate 1959 - 1960
Was made part of a series devoted to architect ionic
Hans Hofmann believed that student should work from nature
Jackson Pollock
Number 1, 1950
Work consist of rhythmic drips, splatter, and dribble of paint.
He uses oils paint, aluminum paint, and house enamels in his art.
Mark rothko
No 14 1961
Rothko saw his paintings as a doorway to another reality.
Rothko insisted that color could express basic human emotions.
Robert Motherwell
Elegy to the Spanish republican 108. 1965 - 1967
Motherwell was attracted to surrealist principles of automatism.
Motherwell completed over 100 paintings between 1948 and 1967
Pablo Picasso
Massacre in Korea 1951
Massacre is drawn from Francisco Goya’s painting. The third of May 1808
Massacre is divided in to 2 parts. The left group make women and the right group naked Knights.
Fernand Leger
The constructors 1950
The figures in the constructors look cartoonish
Some paintings allowed abstract shapes to interact as characters in themselves.
Henri matisse
Blue nude 1952
Blue nude was made during henri Matisse late years.
The cutout became virtually his only means of expression during Henri Matisse last years.
Joan miro
Painting 1953
By 1940 miros was making canvas on a much larger scale and broader making
Painting 1953 is about 6 feet by 12 feet
Francis bacon
Study after velàzquez’s portrait of pape innocent X. 1953
Study after velàzquez’s portrait of pape innocent X is a distorted version of the portrait of innocent X painting by Diego.
Study after velàzquez’s portrait of pape innocent X is one of 45 series
Josef Albers
Study for homage to the square: beaming 1963
Homage square became Albert signature series
Albert died in 1976
Ellsworth Kelly
Orange Red Reflection
Began painting monochrome panels in the 1950
In orange red reflection kelly set the canvass to unique depth did by side
Hellen Frankenstein
Mauve District 1966
Helen always has been concerned with painting that simultaneously insist on a flat surface
Morris Louis
Alpha Phi 1961
Alpha Phi belongs to a series called unfurleds
Louis had only one attempt to creat Alpha phi
Frank Stella
Harran 2 1967
When stella introduced curves into his work it marked the beginning of the protractor series.
Harran 2 is composed of a full circle form of
Two protectors.
