Painters Flashcards

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He is a fmous painter known bet for painting in the style called cubism, and . He is best known for his works La Vie, Girl Before a Mirror, and Three Musicians.

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Pablo Picasso

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He is a famous painter and is known for various different paintings like The Last Supper and Mona Lisa. He is also know for his various technological inventions and the invention of the helicopter.

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Leonardo Da Vinci

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This famous painter is a French Post impressionalist painter who had a radically different painting style that changed the style of painting from the 19th to the 20th century. He is famous for the Large Bathers, The Card Player, and The Basket of Apple.

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Paul Cezanne

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French impressionistic painter.Claude Monet was one of the founders of French Impressionist painting, the term itself coming from one of his paintings, Impression, Sunrise.

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Claude Monet

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A Flemish painter active in Bruges, he is one of the early innovators of what became known as Early Netherlandish painting, and one of the most significant representatives of Early Northern Renaissance art. He is known for the Arnolfini Protrait, Ghent Altarpiece, and Annunciation.

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Jan Van Eyck

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American painter and a major figure in the abstract expressionist movement. He was well known for his unique style of drip painting.

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Jackson Pollock

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A Dutch post-impressionist painter who only sold one out of 900 paintings during his lifetime. He mainly became famousafter his death for works like The Starry Night, his Self Protrait, Irises and the Potatoe Eaters.

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Vincent Van Gogh

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A French modernist painter, he was one of the first 19th-century artists to paint modern life, and a pivotal figure in the transition from Realism to Impressionism.

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Edouard Manet

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Henri Matisse was a French painter, draftsman, sculptor, and printmaker. Known for his use of color, his work is regarded as responsible for laying the foundation for modern plastic arts.

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Henri Matisse

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An American artist, director and producer who was a leading figure in the visual art movement known as pop art. Famous for his “Campbells Soup Cans”, “Banana”, and “Marilyn Diptych”.

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Andy Warhol

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A Dutch Baroque Period painter who specialized in domestic interior scenes of middle class life. Famous for his works “The Milkmaid”, “The Art of Painting”, and “Girl with a Pearl Earring”.

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Jan Vermeer

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A French-American painter, sculptor, and writer whose work is associated with Cubism, Dada, and conceptual art. His work includes “L.H.O.O.Q”, and ““Fountain”.

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Marcel Duchamp

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French artist famous for his paintings, sculptures, prints, and drawings. He is especially identified with the subject of dance; more than half of his works depict dancers. He is regarded as one of the founders of Impressionism. Most well known works include The Dance Class and L’Absinthe

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Edgar Degas

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His work defined the premise of pop art through parody. Inspired by the comic strip, This artist produced precise compositions that documented while they parodied, often in a tongue-in-cheek manner. His work was influenced by popular advertising and the comic book style.

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Roy Lichtenstein

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She was best known for her paintings of enlarged flowers, New York skyscrapers, and New Mexico landscapes. This artist has been recognized as the “Mother of American modernism”.

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Georgia O’Keefe

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Mexican artist who painted many portraits, self-portraits, and works inspired by the nature and artifacts of Mexico. Inspired by the country’s popular culture, she employed a naïve folk art style to explore questions of identity, postcolonialism, gender, class, and race in Mexican societ

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Frida Kahlo

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Dutch/Netherlandish painter, his work is known for its fantastic illustrations of religious concepts and narratives. Within his lifetime his work was collected in the Netherlands, Austria, and Spain, and widely copied, especially his macabre and nightmarish depictions of hell. Best known works include The Garden of Early Delights and The Crucifixion of St. Julia.

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Hieronymus Bosch

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Best known for the striking and bizarre images in his surrealist work. His painterly skills are often attributed to the influence of Renaissance masters. His best-known work, The Persistence of Memory, was completed in August 1931

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Salvador Dali