Painters Flashcards by Alex Hinz

Albrecht Dürer

1471-1528 German painter y engraver from Nuremberg - Apocalypse; Knight, Death, and the Devil; St. Jerome in his Study; Melencolia I (1514) - Patronized by HRE emperor Maximillian I 1512-1519

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Alfred Sisley

1839-99 British-French impressionist painter - Painted landscapes “en plein air” (outdoors) - Landscapes of the River Thames, the Seine y its bridges, St. Martin Canal, Hampton Court - British citizen, but born and lived in Paris

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Amedeo Modigliani

1884-1920 Italian painter - Part of the School of Paris group of artists - Notable for nudes with elongated faces - Redheaded Girl in Evening Dress

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André Derain

1880-1954 French painter - Co-founder of Fauvism with Henri Matisse - Charing Cross Bridge, London (1906-pic); The Drying Sails (1905); Baigneuses; La jetée à L’Estaque

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Andrew (Newell) Wyeth

1917-2009 American painter from PA - A realist painter, working predominantly in a regionalist style - Christina’s World (1948-pic); Winter (1946); Braids (1979) - Son of famous illustrator N(ewell) C(onvers) Wyeth

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Andy Warhol (Andrew Warhola)

1928-87 American artist y film director from Pittsburgh - Paintings: Campbell’s Soup Cans (1962); Marilyn Diptych (1962); Silver Car Crash (1963); Double Elvis (1963-pic) - Films: Chelsea Girls (1966); The Nude Restaurant (1967); Women in Revolt (1970); Blood for Dracula (1974) - Worked at his NYC studio called The Factory - Managed y produced the experimental rock band The Velvet Underground

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Annibale Carracci

1560-1609 Italian painter - One of the founders of the Baroque style - Painted the ceiling of the Palazzo Farnese in Rome - The Beaneater (1580); Butcher’s Shop (1580); Venus with a Satyr and Cupids (1590-pic); Jesus and Saint Peter; The Mystic Marriage of St Catherine

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Berthe Morisot

1841-95 French painter - Co-founder of impressionism - Domestic scenes with warm light - The Mother and Sister of the Artist (1870); The Cradle; Grain Field - Married to Eduard Manet’s brother Eugene

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Bridget Riley

1931- English painter from London - One of the foremost exponents of Op Art - Movement in Squares (1961-pic); Shadow Play (1990); Cataract 3 (1967)

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Camille Pissarro

1830-1903 Danish-French painter born in Virgin Islands - Called the “dean of the Impressionist painters” y treated like a father figure among them - Entrée du village de Voisins (1872-pic); Landscape at Pontoise (1874) - Only artist to display at every impressionist exhibition

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Caravaggio (Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio)

1571-1610 Italian painter from Milan - The Entombment of Christ (1604); Conversion of St. Paul; The Calling of St. Matthew; Judith Beheading Holofernes (1599) - Used “chiaroscuro” technique of light y dark - Violent behavior, fled Rome after killing a man - Works rediscovered in the 20th century, y said that “What begins in the work of Caravaggio is, quite simply, modern painting”

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Cassius Marcellus “Kash” Coolidge

1844-1934 American painter from NY - Mainly known for his Dogs Playing Poker series - His Station and Four Aces (1903-pic); Poker Game (1894); A Bold Bluff; A Friend in Need (1903)

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Claude Monet

1840-1926 French painter from Paris - Founder of Impressionism - Water Lilies; Impression, Sunrise (1872); Haystacks; Poplars; Rouen Cathedral (series paintings) - Purchased a large property at Giverny in 1883, where he painted his iconic water lilies y Japanese bridge

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Dante Gabriel Rossetti

1828-1882 British painter - Co-founded the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood in 1848 - Works characterised by sensuality y medieval revivalism - The Day Dream (1880-pic); The Roman Widow (1874); Lady Lilith (1868); The Girlhood of Mary Virgin (1849) - Often wrote poems or sonnets to accompany his paintings

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Diego Velazquez

1599-1660 Spanish painter from Seville - Las Meninas (1656); Infanta Margarita in a Pink Dress; Rokeby Venus (1648-Venus at her Mirror) - Court painter to King Philip IV - Baroque style

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Edgar Degas (Hilaire-Germain-Edgar De Gas)

1834-1917 French painter from Paris - The Dance Class (1873); L’Absinthe (1876-pic); The Bellelli Family; Woman with Chrysanthemums - Many paintings of dancers - Regarded as one of the founders of Impressionism, although he preferred to be called a Realist

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Édouard Manet

1832-1883 French modernist painter from Paris - The Luncheon on the Grass (1863); Olympia (1863); A Bar at the Folies-Bergère (1882) - One of the first to paint modern life, y was pivotal in the transition from Realism to Impressionism

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Edvard Munch

1863-1944 Norwegian painter - The Scream (1893); Madonna (1894); Puberty (1894) - Part of the Expressionism y Symbolism movements

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El Greco (Doménikos Theotokópoulos)

1541-1614 Cretan Renaissance painter - View of Toledo (1600); Opening of the Fifth Seal (1614); The Disrobing of Christ (1579) - Lived in Spain for most of career

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Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun

1755-1842 French painter of the Ancien Régime - Served for a time as the official portraitist of Marie Antoinette - Painted 660 portraits and 200 landscapes

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Émile Bernard

1868-1941 French painter - Part of Post-Impressionism, Synthetism, y Cloisonnism movements - Breton Women in a Green Pasture (1888-pic); Yellow Tree (1888); Brothel Scene - Friends with Gaguin y Van Gogh

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Eugène Delacroix

1798-1863 French painter - Liberty Leading the People (1830); Death of Sardanapulus (1827); Massacre at Chios (1824) - Paintings of Chopin, Hamlet, Medea

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Francis Bacon (artist)

1909-92 Irish-British painter - Known for his bold, grotesque images; esp. for triptychs y screaming popes - Three Studies for Figures at the Base of a Crucifixion (1944); Study after Velázquez’s Portrait of Pope Innocent X (1953-pic) - Spent much time drinking y gambling with artist friends like Lucien Freud

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Francisco Goya (Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes)

1746-1828 Spanish painter from Madrid - Court painter to the Spanish crown - The Disasters of War (series of 82 prints-1820); Charles IV of Spain and His Family (1801); The Nude Maja (1800); The Clothed Maja (1805); The Third of May 1808 (1814) - Thought to have had an affair with the Duchess of Alba, the inspiration for the Nude Maja

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Frans Hals (the Elder)

1582-1666 Dutch Golden Age painter - Laughing Cavalier (1624); Gipsy Girl (1630) - Helped introduce a lively style of painting into Dutch art

Frederic (Sackrider) Remington

1861-1909 American painter, illustrator, y sculptor from NY - Specialized in depictions of the Old American West - Aiding a Comrade (1890-pic); The Blanket Signal (1894); Shotgun Hospitality (1908); A New Year on the Cimarron (1903)

Frida Kahlo (Magdalena Carmen Frida Kahlo y Calderón)

1907-1954 Mexican painter from Mexico City - Henry Ford Hospital (1932); Memory, the Heart (1937); What the Water Gave Me (1938); Self-Portrait with Thorn Necklace and Hummingbird (1940); The Broken Column (1944) - Married to artist Diego Rivera - Part of the post-revolutionary Mexicayotl movement

George Bellows

1882-1925 American painter from OH - Part of the Ashcan School of art, known for realistic depictions of urban life - Dempsey and Firpo (1924-pic); Cliff Dwellers (1913); Tennis at Newport (1919); Men of the Docks; Love of Winter

George Frederic Watts

1817-1904 English painter y sculptor - Hope (1886-pic); Love and Life; Physical Energy (1902-sculpture) - Painted allegorical works as part of the Symbolist movement

George Romney

1734-1802 British portrait painter - Was the most fashionable artist of his day, painting many leading society figures, incl. his artistic muse, Emma Hamilton, mistress of Horatio Nelson - Lady Hamilton as Circe (1782-pic); Lady Hamilton as the Magdalene; The Infant Shakespeare

Georges Braque

1882-1963 French painter - Part of fauvism y cubism movements - Colleagues with Picasso - Man with a Guitar (1912); The Fruitdish

Georges Seurat

1859-1891 French post-impressionist painter from Paris - A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte (1886-pic); Le Chahut - Creator of pointillism technique

Georgia (Totto) O'Keeffe

1887-1986 American painter from WI - Painted flowers, bones (esp. skulls and pelvis), landscapes of American SW - Lived in NM with husband Alfred Stieglitz - Museum in Santa Fe

Gerhard Richter

1932- German painter y visual artist from Dresden - Abstraktes Bild (pic-set record price for painting at auction in 2015); Domplatz, Mailand (1968); Kerze (1983-cover of Sonic Youth's Daydream Nation) - Worked in many styles, incl sculpture y stained glass

Gilbert Stuart

1755-1828 American painter from RI - Widely considered one of America's foremost portraitists - Unfinished portrait of George Washington (1796-aka The Athenaeum Portrait-on $1 bill); The Skater (1782-pic); portraits of John Jay, John Adams, etc.

Giorgione (Giorgio Barbarelli da Castelfranco)

1477-1510 Italian Renaissance painter from Venice - Only 6 surviving works certain to be his - The Tempest (1508-pic); Sleeping Venus (1510); The Three Philosophers; Adoration of the Shepherds - Very little known about him, but was close colleague of Tititan

Giuseppe Arcimboldo

1526-1593 Italian painter from Milan - Best known for creating portrait heads made entirely of fruits, vegetables, flowers, books, y fish - Vertumnus (1590-pic-depicting Holy Roman Emperor Rudolf II); The Librarian (1566-made of books); Four Seasons in One Head (fruit y plants)

Grandma Moses (Anna Mary Robertson Moses)

1860-1961 American painter from NY - The Old Checkered House; Summer Party; Thanksgiving Turkey; Sugaring Off; Old Oaken Bucket - Known for her Folk Art depicting simple realism y nostalgic scenes - Started painting at age 78

Grant (DeVolson) Wood

1891-1942 American painter from IA - American Gothic (1930); Appraisal (1931-pic); Iowa Cornfield (1941); Sultry Night (1937) - Known for his depictions of rural midwestern American life - Part of the Regionalism art movement

Gustav Klimt

1862-1918 Austrian painter - Prominent member of Vienna Secession movement - The Kiss (1908); Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer (1907); Judith and the Head of Holofernes (1901) - Used gold leaf, painted women

Gustave Courbet

1819-1877 French painter - L'Origine du Monde (1866); The Stone Breakers (pic); A Burial at Ornans - Led Realism movement

Hans Holbein the Younger

1497-1543 German painter from Bavaria - Portrait of Henry VIII (1535); portraits of Henry VIII's wives; portrait of Thomas More; The Ambassadors (1553-pic) - Court painter of Henry VIII - Father Hans Holbein the Older also a painter

Helen Frankenthaler

1928-2011 American painter from NYC - Part of Abstract Expressionism y Color Field movements - Mountains and Sea (1952-pic); Basque Landscape (1958); Eden (1956)

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

1864-1901 French painter - Post-impressionism; art nouveau - La Blanchisseuse (The Laundress - sold for record $22 mil); La Toilette; At the Moulin Rouge; In Bed - Only 4'11" in height, described as "a degenerate, debauched dwarf with syphillis"

Henri Rousseau

1844-1910 French Post-Impressionist painter - The Sleeping Gypsy (1897); Tiger in a Tropical Storm (1891-pic); The Hungry Lion Throws Itself on the Antelope (1905) - Self-taught y ridiculed by critics during his life, but respected by many artists - Colorful images of jungle scenery

Henry Matisse

1869-1954 French modernist painter - Woman with a Hat (1905); Blue Nude (1907); La Danse (1909); A Glimpse of Notre Dame in the Late Afternoon; Bathers with a Turtle - Fauvism (wild beast) style for a time, then impressionist y modernist

Hieronymus Bosch

1450-1516 Dutch painter from 's-Hertogenbosch - The Garden of Earthly Delights (1490-triptych);The Last Judgement (1500-pic); The Seven Deadly Sins - Little known of his life, y only about 25 works are sure to be his

(Katsushika) Hokusai

1760-1849 Japanese painter - Known for his ukiyo-e style woodblock prints - Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji (1831); The Great Wave Off Kanagawa (1829-pic); Fine Wind, Clear Morning

(Paul) Jackson Pollock

1912-1956 American painter from WY - Number 5 1948; Lavender Mist; Number 17A (1948); Blue Poles (1952); The Deep (1953) - Known for his drip technique, also called "action painting" - Abstract expressionism - Lived in NY, married abstract artist Lee Krasner - Alcoholic with reclusive y volatile personality - Died at age 44 in an alcohol-related single-car accident

Jacques-Louis David

1748-1825 French painter - His work marked the change from Rococo style to Neoclassicism - Oath of the Horatii (1784-pic); Death of Marat (1793); The Death of Socrates (1787); The Tennis Court Oath (1791); The Emperor Napoleon in His Study (1812); The Coronation of Napoleon (1806) - Aligned himself both with Robespierre y Napoleon

James Abbott McNeill Whistler

1834-1903 American painter from MA - Worked in UK - Arrangement in Grey and Black No. 1 (1871-aka Whistler's Mother); Symphony in White, No. 1: The White Girl (1862); Nocturne: Blue and Gold - Old Battersea Bridge (1872-pic); Nocturne in Black and Gold: The Falling Rocket (1874) - Proponent of the credo "art for art's sake" - Signature was a stylized butterfly

Jan van Eyck

1390-1441 Dutch painter - Northern Renaissance era - Ghent Altarpiece (1432); The Arnolfini Portrait (1434-pic) - Worked as court painter for Philip the Good, Duke of Burgundy; later worked in Bruges with his brother Hubert

Jasper Johns

1930- American painter from GA - Abstract expressionism, Neo-Dada, pop art movements - Three Flags (1951-pic); Numbers in Color; False Start; Land's End

Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres

1780-1867 French Neoclassical painter - Grande Odalisque (1814); The Turkish Bath (1862); Oedipus and the Sphinx (1864); Portrait of Louis-François Bertin (1832) - Considered himself a painter of history, but most famous for his portraits

Jean-François Millet

1814-1875 French painter - Noted for his scenes of peasant farmers - One of the founders of Barbizon School movement - The Sower (1850); The Gleaners (1857-pic); The Potato Harvest; The Goose Girl

Jean-Honoré Fragonard

1732-1806 French painter of the Rococo era - One of most prolific of Ancien Regime, his works known for hedonism y instimacy - The Swing (1767-pic); The Bolt (1777); A Young Girl Reading (1770) - Grand-uncle of painter Bertha Morisot

Johannes Vermeer

1632-1675 Dutch Golden Age painter from Delft - Girl With a Pearl Earring (1665); The Milkmaid (1658); The Astronomer (1668)

John Constable

1776-1837 English painter - Known primarily for his Romantic era landscapes - Dedham Vale (1802); Wivenhoe Park (1816); The Hay Wain (1821-pic);

John French Sloan

1871-1951 American painter from PA - One of the founders of the Ashcan school of American art, y member of the group known as The Eight - McSorley's Bar (1912); Sixth Avenue Elevated at Third Street (1928); Wake of the Ferry (1907); Hairdresser's Window (1907)

John Singer Sargent

1856-1925 American painter born in Florence - Leading portrait painter of Edwardian era - The Daughters of Edward Darley Boit; Gassed (1919); Portrait of Madame X (1884-pic); Lady Agnew of Lochnaw; The Cashmere Shawl - Portraits of T Roosevelt and R Louis Stevenson - Spent most of his life in Europe

John Trumbull

1756-1843 American painter from CT - Known for works depicting American Revolutionary War y figures of that time - Declaration of Independence (1817-on $2 bill-pic); portraits of Geo. Washington, Alex Hamilton (on $10 bill), George Clinton, John Adams - Served as president of the American Academy of the Fine Arts in NYC

John William Waterhouse

1849-1917 English painter - Works known for their depictions of women from both ancient Greek mythology y Arthurian legend - Hylas and the Nymphs (1893); The Lady of Shalott (1888); Ophelia (1889-pic) - Worked in pre-Raphaelite style, but several decades after their heyday

Joshua Reynolds

1723-1792 English portrait painter - The Age of Innocence (1785-pic); The Infant Hercules (1785) - Promoted the "Grand Style" in painting which depended on idealization of the imperfect - Founder y first pres of the Royal Academy of Arts - Knighted by George III in 1769

Karl Schmidt-Rottluff

1884-1976 German expressionist painter - One of the founders of the Die Brücke (The Bridge) group - Woman with a Bag (1915); Houses at Night (1912-pic); The Factory (1909); Evening in the Room (1935)

Kazimir Malevich

1878-1935 Russian painter y Christian mystic - Originated the avant-garde Suprematist movement, y was a pioneer of geometric abstract art - Black Square (1915); White on White (1918); Black Circle (1915); Red Cavalry (1928)

Leonardo (di ser Piero) da Vinci

1452-1519 Italian polymath, painter, engineer, y scientist from Florence - Known as the prime example of a "Renaissance Man" - Painted: Mona Lisa (1506); The Last Supper (1498); Vitruvian Man (1490); Lady with an Ermine (1490-pic) - Developed theoretical models of flying machines, tanks, solar power, y adding machines

Lucas Cranach the Elder

1472-1553 German Renaissance painter - Court painter to Electors of Saxony - Friends with Martin Luther, famous portraits of him - Venus and Cupid; Saxon Princess (pic); Judith with the head of Holofernes

Lucian Freud

1922-2011 - German-born British painter - Girl with a White Dog (1952-pic); Benefits Supervisor Sleeping - Grandson of Sigmund Freud

Marc Chagall

1887-1985 Russian-French-Jewish painter - I and the Village (1911); The Fiddler (1912) - Part of the School of Paris group - Created many works of stained glass

Marcel Duchamp

1887-1968 French painter y sculptor - Nude Descending a Staircase, No. 2 (1912-pic); The Fountain (1917-a urinal signed "R. Mutt"); The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, Even (1923-aka The Large Glass); L.H.O.O.Q. (1919-Mona Lisa with a mustache); Why Not Sneeze Rose Sélavy? (1921) - Created "readymades" - Part of the dadaism, surrealism, y cubism movements - Gave up art completely in 1923, y became a semi-pro chess player

Mark Rothko

1903-1970 Russian-Jewish-born American painter - Abstract art with big rectangles of color - Untitled 1958, Seagram Murals

Mary Cassatt

1844-1926 American impressionist painter - Lived in Paris, friends with Degas - The Boating Party (1894); Tea (1880); Summertime - Paintings of women and children in social situations

Maurice de Vlaminck

1876-1958 French painter - One of the principle figures of the Fauve movement (1904-08) - The River Seine at Chatou (1906-pic); Barges on the Seine (1906); Town on the Bank of a Lake

Morris Louis

1912-1962 American painter from Baltimore - One of the earliest exponents of Color Field painting - Where (1960-pic); Number 36 (1962); Unfurleds (1960–61) - Formed the Washington Color School movement

Nicolas Poussin

1594-1665 French painter - Classical French Baroque style - Et in Arcadia Ego (1637-pic); Death of Germanicus (1628); Tancred and Erminia (1630); The Inspiration of the Poet (1630) - Worked mostly in Rome, then served as First Painter to the King of France

Pablo Picasso

1881-1973 Spanish artist - Les Demoiselles d'Avignon (1907); Guernica (1937); The Weeping Woman (1937) - Spent most of life in France - Co-founder of cubism - Blue period, Rose period, African period

Paul Cézanne

1839-1906 French post-impressionist painter from Aix-en-Provence - Mont Sainte-Victoire seen from Bellevue (1885); Drapery, Pitcher, and Fruit Bowl (1894); The Card Players (1895); The Bathers (1905); Pyramid of Skulls (1901) - Formed the bridge between Impressionism y Cubism - Matisse y Picasso said that Cézanne "is the father of us all"

(Eugène Henri) Paul Gauguin

1848-1903 French post-impressionist painter from Paris - The Yellow Christ (1889); Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going? (1897); Tahitian women - Lived in Peru, Denmark, Panama, Martinique, Tahiti, y the Marquesas - Rocky relationship with friend Van Gogh, y was involved in the ear incident

Paul Klee

1879-1940 Swiss-German artist - Bauhaus school, worked with Kandinsky - Expressionist movement - Twittering Machine (1922); Fish Magic (1925); Viaducts Break Ranks (1937); Red/Green Architecture (1922); Fright of a Girl (1922); Heroic Roses (1938)

Peter Paul Rubens

1577-1640 Flemish painter - Baroque style - Massacre of the Innocents (1612); The Hippopotamus Hunt (1616); Portrait of a Commander; The Three Graces; The Fall of Man; Descent from the Cross - Knighted by kings of Spain y England

Pierre-Auguste Renoir

1841-1919 French impressionist painter - Luncheon of the Boating Party (1880); Dance at Le Moulin de la Galette (1876-speckled light); Two Sisters (1881)

Piet Mondrian

1872-1944 Dutch painter - Contributor to De Stijl art movement - Broadway Boogie-Woogie (1942); Composition II in Red, Blue, and Yellow (1930-pic); Tableau I (1921)

Pieter Bruegel the Elder

1525-1569 Dutch Renaissance painter - Known for his peasant scenes y landscapes - The Blind Leading the Blind (1568); Landscape with the Fall of Icarus; The Hunters in the Snow (1565-pic); The Peasant Wedding (1567)

Raoul Dufy

1877-1953 French painter - Part of Fauvism movement - Known for scenes of open-air social events, y also ceramic y textile design - Le Cavalier Blanc (1914); La Fee Electricite (1937-pic); Regatta at Cowes (1934)

Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino)

1483-1520 Italian High Renaissance painter - The School of Athens (1511); St. George y the Dragon; several Madonnas, incl. Sistine Madonna (1512-with curious putti); The Fire in the Borgo (1514) - Worked in Rome for popes at the Vatican

Rembrandt (Harmenszoon van Rijn)

1606-69 Dutch Golden Age painter from Leiden - The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Nicolaes Tulp (1632); Belshazzar's Feast (1635); The Night Watch (1642-pic-AKA Militia Company of District II under the Command of Captain Frans Banninck Cocq); Bathsheba at Her Bath (1654)

René (François Ghislain) Magritte

1898-1967 Belgian surrealist painter - The Son of Man (1964); The Treachery of Images (1929); Golconda (1953-pic); On the Threshold of Liberty (1937); Elective Affinities (1933); The Menaced Assassin (1927)

Roy Lichtenstein

1923-1997 American - Whaam!; Drowning Girl; Oh Jeff...I Love You Too...But; Look Mickey; Woman with Flowered Hat - Pop Art based on comic strips

Salvador Dalí (Salvador Domingo Felipe Jacinto Dalí i Domènech, 1st Marquis of Dalí de Púbol )

1904-1989 Spanish surrealist artist from Catalonia - The Persistence of Memory (1931); Soft Construction with Boiled Beans (1936); Swans Reflecting Elephants (1939); The Temptation of St. Anthony (1946); Corpus Hypercubus (1954-pic) - Made the 1929 silent film Un Chien Andalou - Called his art "hand-painted dream photographs" - Buried in a crypt under the Dalí Theatre and Museum in his hometown of Figueres

Sandro Botticelli (Alessandro di Mariano di Vanni Filipepi)

1445-1510 Italian painter from Florence - The Birth of Venus (1486-pic); Primavera (1480); Adoration of the Magi (1475) - Spent nearly entire life in Florence, patronized by the Medici family

Theo van Doesburg

1883-1931 Dutch artist - Founder of De Stijl movement (aka Neoplasticism) - Card Players (1916-pic); Girl with Ranunculus; Composition in Gray (1919); Composition IX

Thomas Cole

1801-1848 English-born American painter - Founder of the Hudson River School of romantic landsacpe paintings - The Oxbow (1836-pic); The Titan's Goblet (1833); Home in the Woods (1847); Distant View of Niagara Falls (1830)

Thomas Gainsborough

1727-1788 British portrait y landscape painter - The Blue Boy (1770-pic); Mr. and Mrs. Andrews - Dominant potraitist of the 18th Century

Thomas Hart Benton

1889-1975 American painter y muralist from MO - America Today (1931); Indiana Murals (1933); Social History of Missouri (1936); The Sources of Country Music (1975-pic) - Works showed everyday people in the context of midwestern American life - Part of the Regionalism art movement

Thomas Kinkade

1958-2012 American painter from CA - Notable for the mass marketing y popularity of his work, which usually features glowing highlights y pastel colors - Very successful commercially, but held in low esteem by art critics

Tintoretto (Jacopo Comin)

1518-1594 Italian Renaissance painter from Venice - Nicknamed "Il Furioso" due to the energy of his works - Painted in the Mannerist style -The Last Supper (1594-pic); The Deliverance of Arsinoe (1560); St Mark's Body Brought to Venice (1548); Christ at the Sea of Galilee (1575)

Titian (Tiziano Vecelli)

1490-1576 Italian high-renaissance painter from Venice - Salome with the Head of John the Baptist (1515); Bacchus and Ariadne (1520); The Rape of Europa (1560); Venus of Urbino (1538) - Teacher of El Greco - Called "The Sun Amidst Small Stars" by his contemporaries

Vincent (Willem) Van Gogh

1853-1890 Dutch post-impressionist painter from Zundert - The Starry Night (1889); Bedroom in Arles (1888) - Painted irises, sunflowers, wheat fields, olive trees, cypresses - Died mentally ill in Paris - Brother Theo van Gogh

Wassily Kandinsky

1866-1944 Russian painter - On White II (1923); The Blue Rider (1903); Composition VII (1913) - Founder of abstract art - Lived in Russia, Germany, USSR, and France

Willem de Kooning

1904-1997 Dutch-American abstract expressionist painter - Part of the New York School of artists (with Pollock, Rothko, et al) - Woman III (1953-pic); Easter Monday; Attic; Excavation - Awarded Pres Medal of Freedom (1964)

Winslow Homer

1836-1910 American painter from Boston/Maine - The Fog Warning (1885); Driftwood; A Fair Wind (1876-pic) - Many seascapes and marine scenes - Traveled with Union Army in Civil War sending sketches to Harpers Weekly

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