Major Artists Flashcards
Sandro Botticelli
1444-1510 AD
Florentine painter.
Ex: Fortitude
Michelangelo Buonarroti
1475-1564 AD
Italian painter and sculptor.
Ex: David; Pieta.
Peter Bruegel
1525-1569 AD
Flemish painter known for his landscapes.
Ex: the Fall of the Rebel Angels
Alexander Calder
1898-1976 AD
American sculptor who used motorized pieces.
Mary Cassatt
1844-1926 AD
American painter.
Paul Cézanne
1839-1906 AD
French artist and prone any figure in the Impressionist movement.
Marc Chagall
1887-1985 AD
Russian painter of the Surrealist movement.
Salvador Dalí
1904-1989 AD
Spanish Surrealist painter.
Ex: The Persistence of Memory.
Edgar Degas
1834-1917 AD
French painter and sculptor who specialized in ballet dancers and horses. Influenced Picasso.
Donatello
1386-1466 AD
Italian sculptor who shaped the Renaissance.
Albrecht Dürer
1471-1528 AD
German artist and wood engraver.
Ex: Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse; Melencolia 1.
Fra Angelico
1400-1455 AD
Florentine monk and painter who supervised the frescos at the St. Mark’s convent.
Max Ernst
1891-1976 AD
German painter of the Dada movement who shaped the Surrealist movement.
Ex: Two Children Are Threatened by a Nightingale.
Thomas Gainsborough
1727-1788 AD
English painter of portraits and landscapes.
Paul Gauguin
1848-1903 AD
French post-Impressionist painter who painted scenes of Tahiti.
Ex: “Where do we come from? What are we? Where are we going?”
Frank Gehry
1929-
Canadian born architect who designed the Guggenheim Museum in Spain.
Francisco Goya
1746-1828 AD
Spanish painter and generally considered the best painter of his generation.
El Greco
1541-1614 AD
Greek painter who settled in Spain. Specialized in cathedral altars and portraits.
Edward Hopper
1882-1967 AD
American painter and engraver known for his stark street scenes.
Ex: Early Morning Sunday; Nighthawks
Christo Javacheff
1935-
Bulgarian artist who made large scale Earth pieces.
Thomas Jefferson
1743-1826 AD
American politician and architect.
Ex: Monticello; University of Virginia
Jasper Johns
1930-
American painter of the Pop Art movement and Abstract Expressionists.
Ex: Beer Cans
Vasily Kandinsky
1866-1944 AD
Russian born Expressionist painter who founded the Bauhaus school.
A friend of Klee.
Paul Klee
1879-1940 AD
Swiss-born avant-garde Expressionist painter who helped found the Bauhaus school.
Gustuv Klimt
1862-1918 AD
German Art Nouveau painter.
Ex: The Kiss
Leonardo da Vinci
1452-1519 AD
A dude of insane skills.
Ex: The Last Supper: Madonna of the Rocks.
Edouard Manet
1832-1883 AD
French painter who influenced the Impressionist movement. Highly controversial.
Franz Marc
1880-1916 AD
German-born Expressionist painter with emotional trouble.
Ex: Yellow Cow, Blue Horses
Henri Matisse
1869-1954 AD
French Fauve artist painted who still life work.
Joan Miro
1893-1983 AD
Surrealist Spanish painter known for his landscapes.
Claude Monet
1840-1926 AD
French painter and founded of the Impressionist school.
Anna Mary Moses
1860-1961 AD
American artist who painter who painted landscapes.
Edvard Munch
1863-1944 AD
Norwegian painter of Expressionist pieces.
Ex: The Scream
Georgia O’Keefe
1887-1986 AD
American painter with a largely SW-motif.
Ex: Cow’s Skull, Red, White, and Blue.
I.M. Pei
1917-
Post-Modern Chinese-American architect.
Ex: The entrance of the Louvre; the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
Pablo Picasso
1881-1973 AD
Spanish artist who helped found the Cubist movement.
Ex: The Three Musicians; Guernica
Camille Pissarro
1830-1903 AD
French Impressionist known for landscapes.
Jackson Pollock
1912-1956 AD
American artist whose splatter designs characterize the Abstract Expressionist movement.
Harmenszoon Rembrandt
1606-1669 AD
Dutch painter.
Ex: Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Tulp; The Shooting Company of Captain Frans Banning Cocq.
Pierre Renoir
1841-1919 AD
French painter and founder of the Impressionist movement.
Ex: Moulin de la Galette; Bather
Peter Paul Rubens
1577-1640 AD
Flemish painter of the Baroque era.
Ex: Venus and Adonis; The Judgement of Paris
Augusta Rodin
1840-1917 AD
French sculptor.
Ex: The Thinker; The Kiss
Mark Rothko
1903-1970 AD
Russian-born American painter of the Abstract Expressionist school.
A student of Max Weber.
George Seurat
1859-1891 AD
Painter who was a forerunner of the Impressionist movement and founded the pointillist school.
Ex: Un Dimanche à la Grande Jatte
Louis Comfort Tiffany
1848-1890 AD
American craftsman known for jewelry and stained glass pieces.
Vincent van Gough
1853-1890 AD
Dutch painter of the post-Impressionist school.
Ex: Starry Night; The Sunflowers
Andy Warhol
1928-1987 AD
Pop artist who helped define a modern aesthetic.
Frank Lloyd Wright
1867-1959 AD
American architect.
Ex: Fallingwater; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum.
Hieronymus Bosch
1450-1516 AD
Flemish painter.
Ex: The Garden of Earthly Delights; Mocking of Christ
