Painters 2 Flashcards
Agnes (Bernice) Martin
1912-2004 Canadian-born American abstract painter - Considered a minimalist y an abstract expressionist - White Flower (1960); On a Clear Day (1973); With My Back to the World (1997-pic) - Her work has been defined as an essay in discretion on inwardness y silence
Artemisia Gentileschi
1593-1656 Italian Baroque painter - The first woman to become a member of the Academy of Fine Arts of Florence - Judith Slaying Holofernes (1614-pic); Sleeping Venus; David and Bathseba - Raped by her tutor Agostino Tassi in 1611, y successfully had him convicted in court
David Hockney
1937- English painter y photographer - An important contributor to the pop art movement of the 1960s - A Bigger Splash (1967); Garrowby Hill (pic); A Bigger Grand Canyon - Maintains a home y office in Los Angeles
Edward Hicks
1780-1849 American folk painter from PA - The Peacable Kingdom (1826 - pic - made 62 later variations of this work); The Residence of David Twining (1845); Penn’s Treaty (1847) - Works heavily influenced by his Quaker faith
Fra Angelico (Guido di Pietro)
1395-1455 - Italian painter of the early Renaissance - Earned reputation primarily for the series of frescoes he made for his own friary, San Marco, in Florence; which was produced through the patronage of the wealthy banker Cosimo de’ Medici (1389-1464) - The Virgin of the Annunciation (pic); The Adoration of the Magi; The Day of Judgement
Franz Marc
1880-1916 German painter - Key figure of German Expressionism, y founding member of The Blue Rider group - Blue Horse (1911-pic); The Yellow Cow (1911); Red Bull (1912); The Tower of the Blue Horses (1913)
Giotto (di Bondone)
1267-1337 Italian painter y architect from Florence - Made a break with the previous Byzantine style, y initiated modern painting drawn accurately from life - Painted the frescoes decorating the Scrovegni Chapel in Padua in 1305 - Kiss of Judas (1306-pic); Lamentation; Adoration of the Magi - Namesake of the ESA’s Giotto spacecraft, which observed Halley’s Comet in 1986, because of his depiction of the comet in his work
Jenny Saville
1970- - Contemporary British painter y original member of the Young British Artists group - Known for large-scale y sometimes grotesque images of nude women - Propped, Fulcrum, Still, Aleppo
Lawrence Alma-Tadema
1836-1912 Dutch painter - Known for his depictions of the luxury y decadence of the Roman Empire - The Education of the Children of Clovis (1861); A Coign of Vantage (1895-pic); Egyptian Chess Players (1865); Silver Favourites (1903) - Spent his working life mostly in England
Paula Modersohn-Becker
1876-1907 German painter - One of the most important representatives of early expressionism y modernism movements - Self-portrait with green background and blue irises (1905-pic); Reclining Mother and Child; Mädchen mit Kaninchen (1905) - Died at age 31 from postpartum embolism
Richard Diebenkorn
1922-93 American painter from CA - Known for his Ocean Park series of 135 abstract paintings based on aerial landscapes of California - Part of the Bay Area Figurative Movement of the 1950s y 1960s
Robert S(eldon) Ducanson
1821-1872 African-American landscape painter from NY - Part of the second generation Hudson River School, y later the Ohio River School of painting - The first African-American artist to be known internationally - Land of the Lotus Eaters (1861-pic); Ellen’s Isle, Loch Katrine (1871)
Rosa Bonheur
1822-1899 French painter y sculptor from Bordeaux - Ploughing in the Nivernais (1848); The Horse Fair (1853-pic) - Widely considered to be the most famous female painter of the 19th Cent.
Tamara de Lempicka (Maria Górska)
1898-1980 Polish painter - Known for her polished Art-Deco portraits - Self-Portrait in the Green Bugatti (1929-pic); Young Lady with Gloves; The Green Turban (1930) - Married an Austro-Hungarian baron, y became known as “The Baroness with a Brush”
William Etty
1787-1849 English painter from York - The first significant British painter of nudes y still lifes - The Triumph of Cleopatra (1821-pic); Youth on the Prow, and Pleasure at the Helm (1832); Musidora: The Bather ‘At the Doubtful Breeze Alarmed’ (1843) - Commercially successful y critically acclaimed, but with a reputation for indecency
William Hogarth
1697-1764 English painter, satirist, y editorial cartoonist - Work ranges from realistic portraiture to comic strip-like series of pictures called “modern moral subjects” - A Harlot’s Progress (1731); A Rake’s Progress (1735); Marriage A-la-Mode; Beer Street and Gin Lane (1751-pic) - Knowledge of his work is so pervasive that satirical political illustrations in this style are often referred to as “Hogarthian”
