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Major Artists Flashcards

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Sandro Botticelli

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1444-1510 AD

Florentine painter.

Ex: Fortitude

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Michelangelo Buonarroti

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1475-1564 AD

Italian painter and sculptor.

Ex: David; Pieta.

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Peter Bruegel

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1525-1569 AD

Flemish painter known for his landscapes.

Ex: the Fall of the Rebel Angels

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Alexander Calder

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1898-1976 AD

American sculptor who used motorized pieces.

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Mary Cassatt

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1844-1926 AD

American painter.

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Paul Cézanne

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1839-1906 AD

French artist and prone any figure in the Impressionist movement.

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Marc Chagall

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1887-1985 AD

Russian painter of the Surrealist movement.

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Salvador Dalí

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1904-1989 AD

Spanish Surrealist painter.

Ex: The Persistence of Memory.

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Edgar Degas

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1834-1917 AD

French painter and sculptor who specialized in ballet dancers and horses. Influenced Picasso.

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Donatello

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1386-1466 AD

Italian sculptor who shaped the Renaissance.

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Albrecht Dürer

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1471-1528 AD

German artist and wood engraver.

Ex: Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse; Melencolia 1.

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Fra Angelico

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1400-1455 AD

Florentine monk and painter who supervised the frescos at the St. Mark’s convent.

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Max Ernst

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1891-1976 AD

German painter of the Dada movement who shaped the Surrealist movement.

Ex: Two Children Are Threatened by a Nightingale.

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Thomas Gainsborough

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1727-1788 AD

English painter of portraits and landscapes.

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Paul Gauguin

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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?”

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Frank Gehry

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1929-

Canadian born architect who designed the Guggenheim Museum in Spain.

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Francisco Goya

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1746-1828 AD

Spanish painter and generally considered the best painter of his generation.

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El Greco

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1541-1614 AD

Greek painter who settled in Spain. Specialized in cathedral altars and portraits.

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Edward Hopper

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1882-1967 AD

American painter and engraver known for his stark street scenes.

Ex: Early Morning Sunday; Nighthawks

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Christo Javacheff

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1935-

Bulgarian artist who made large scale Earth pieces.

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Thomas Jefferson

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1743-1826 AD

American politician and architect.

Ex: Monticello; University of Virginia

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Jasper Johns

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1930-

American painter of the Pop Art movement and Abstract Expressionists.

Ex: Beer Cans

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Vasily Kandinsky

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1866-1944 AD

Russian born Expressionist painter who founded the Bauhaus school.

A friend of Klee.

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Paul Klee

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1879-1940 AD

Swiss-born avant-garde Expressionist painter who helped found the Bauhaus school.

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Gustuv Klimt

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1862-1918 AD

German Art Nouveau painter.

Ex: The Kiss

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Leonardo da Vinci

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1452-1519 AD

A dude of insane skills.

Ex: The Last Supper: Madonna of the Rocks.

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Edouard Manet

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1832-1883 AD

French painter who influenced the Impressionist movement. Highly controversial.

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Franz Marc

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1880-1916 AD

German-born Expressionist painter with emotional trouble.

Ex: Yellow Cow, Blue Horses

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Henri Matisse

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1869-1954 AD

French Fauve artist painted who still life work.

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Joan Miro

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1893-1983 AD

Surrealist Spanish painter known for his landscapes.

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Claude Monet

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1840-1926 AD

French painter and founded of the Impressionist school.

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Anna Mary Moses

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1860-1961 AD

American artist who painter who painted landscapes.

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Edvard Munch

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1863-1944 AD

Norwegian painter of Expressionist pieces.

Ex: The Scream

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Georgia O’Keefe

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1887-1986 AD

American painter with a largely SW-motif.

Ex: Cow’s Skull, Red, White, and Blue.

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I.M. Pei

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1917-

Post-Modern Chinese-American architect.

Ex: The entrance of the Louvre; the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

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Pablo Picasso

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1881-1973 AD

Spanish artist who helped found the Cubist movement.

Ex: The Three Musicians; Guernica

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Camille Pissarro

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1830-1903 AD

French Impressionist known for landscapes.

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Jackson Pollock

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1912-1956 AD

American artist whose splatter designs characterize the Abstract Expressionist movement.

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Harmenszoon Rembrandt

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1606-1669 AD

Dutch painter.

Ex: Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Tulp; The Shooting Company of Captain Frans Banning Cocq.

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Pierre Renoir

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1841-1919 AD

French painter and founder of the Impressionist movement.

Ex: Moulin de la Galette; Bather

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Peter Paul Rubens

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1577-1640 AD

Flemish painter of the Baroque era.

Ex: Venus and Adonis; The Judgement of Paris

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Augusta Rodin

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1840-1917 AD

French sculptor.

Ex: The Thinker; The Kiss

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Mark Rothko

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1903-1970 AD

Russian-born American painter of the Abstract Expressionist school.

A student of Max Weber.

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George Seurat

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1859-1891 AD

Painter who was a forerunner of the Impressionist movement and founded the pointillist school.

Ex: Un Dimanche à la Grande Jatte

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Louis Comfort Tiffany

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1848-1890 AD

American craftsman known for jewelry and stained glass pieces.

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Vincent van Gough

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1853-1890 AD

Dutch painter of the post-Impressionist school.

Ex: Starry Night; The Sunflowers

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Andy Warhol

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1928-1987 AD

Pop artist who helped define a modern aesthetic.

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Frank Lloyd Wright

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1867-1959 AD

American architect.

Ex: Fallingwater; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum.

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Hieronymus Bosch

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1450-1516 AD

Flemish painter.

Ex: The Garden of Earthly Delights; Mocking of Christ

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