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- 9. This Post Impressionist proposed an art based on current scientific theories of vision and color. The basic principle behind his work was called Divisionism or as he called it Pointillism. If a Diversionist wanted to paint a green field, he would place blue and yellow dots close together, and when viewed form a distance the field would indeed appear green.
- 10. a French Post Impressionist, this artist spent much of his time in cafes, brothels and nightclubs. This world of pleasure became his subject matter. He was more of a brilliant caricaturist than a painter. In his posters the bold flat composition and abstracted figures show the influence of Japanese prints.
- 11. This German Expressionist artist said, “My goal was always to express emotion and experience with large and simple forms and clear color.” His street scenes and cabaret dancers display the brutal angularity linked with Expressionism.
- 13. For this artist external reality was transformed by an inner need to express his own vision. After failing to succeed in art sales, missionary work, ministry, and many relationships, he turned to painting. He applies his color in thick, swirling brushstrokes, and movement to his Post Impressionist work. His work is a brilliant outward expression of his inner paint and some of the most well-known art in the world.
- 16. For half a century this artist led the forces of artistic innovation, shocking the world by introducing a new style and then moving on as soon as his unorthodoxy became accepted. Until the age of 91 Picasso remained vital and versatile. Probably the most prolific Western artist ever, he produced an estimated 50,000 works of art. This artist was responsible for the Blue Period, The Rose Period, The Negro Period, the Cubism Movement and more.
- 17. this artist brought “Tubism” to the Cubists with his cylindrical theme.
- 18. the father of Modern Art, this Impressionist artist is known for his dramatic use of color, often depicting people as a “Snapshot” with drop dead stares. His people were painted with basic realism on flat neutral backgrounds
- 19. strongly influenced by Van Gogh, his Fauvist paintings were full of violent brushstrokes and stormy skies. He sometimes squeezed paint on the canvas straight from the tube, smearing bold colors thickly with a palette knife. This intensified the effect making his exuberant landscapes seem to vibrate with motion.
- 21. a Spanish artist who used collage and copied masterpieces from the Renaissance era in the Cubist style. He incorporated letters and paper scraps into his copies of old masterpieces.
- 22. the gentle Fauve, his paintings were lighter in hue. His cheerful canvases of garden parties, concerts, horse races, and beach scenes were charming. Often he would “draw” over his fluid paintings with black lines
- 23. This artist wanted to make Impressionism as solid and durable as the paintings in the museums. As a result he went further than Impressionism. He broke down objects into geometric forms and simplified their planes to convey their essential structure. His artwork led to the development of an art movement called Cubism.
- 24. an Impressionist artist known for his paintings pastel brushstrokes of water lilies, Chinese bridges, haystacks, and cathedrals.
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- 1. the first to use collage (art work created by gluing bits of paper, fabric scraps, photographs, and more to drawings and paintings) this was a real breakthrough in the Cubist movement.
- 2. This German Expressionist focused on pacifist subjects and the suffering of the poor. She was concerned more with the social protest than inner exploration. A master printmaker in etchings, lithographs, and woodcuts, the she used stark forms and harsh lines to express the tragic loss in war’s aftermath. Much of her work is in black and white.
- 3. the leader of the Fauves, he is credited with beginning Modern Art. He shocked the world with his paintings of interiors, and people in random colors, filled with many different patterns. Later in life he used cut paper to create his masterpieces.
- 4. This Expressionist artist from the early 1900s borrowed from tribal and oceanic art. He used figures with hideous, mask-like faces to suggest a deformed spirit. He used garish colors, coarse forms, and ghoulish figures to communicate the evil of prewar Germany. His paintings were utterly shocking for the time.
- 5. a Frenchman whose work defined Impressionism. He was a portrait artist who painted laughing women, family members, and holiday scenes in primary colors.
- 6. This Russian Expressionist painter was the first to abandon any reference to recognizable reality in his work. His paintings depicted no identifiable object and were entirely composed of bright color-patches. He used rainbow-bright colors and loose brushstrokes in his work.
- 7. the greatest Norwegian painter and an important inspiration for the German Expressionist movement, this painter had a very traumatic childhood that included a lot of death and sickness. He said, “Illness, madness, and death were the black angels that kept watch over my cradle.”
- 8. this artist reduced his brushstrokes to dots and dashed of burning color, and exploding primary colors to his Fauvist paintings. His bold, directional brushstrokes eliminated lines and the distinction between light and shade. In his harbor and beach scenes, the different strokes – from choppy to flowing – give a sense of movement to sky and water.
- 12. the Fauvist artist that is known for his expressive brushstroke and glowing color. As a youth, he apprenticed with a stain glass maker and repaired cathedral windows. The heavy black lines in his work resemble the lines of stained glass windows.
- 14. the paintings by this Post Impressionist artist were filled with religious symbols. He used characteristics of primitive art, flat planes of color and he painted his figures frozen in attitude with no shading. He spent much time painting on the island of Tahiti. His use of unrealistic color renewed pictorial art.
- 15. This Swiss artist used color and line to create deceptively simple and playful artwork, very different form his fellow Expressionist. He captured the dreamlike magic of children’s art by reducing his forms to direct shapes full of ambiguity. He studied archaic signs, hieroglyphics, and cave markings, which he thought held some primitive power to evoke nonverbal meanings. He said, “art does not reproduce the visible, it make visible.”
- 20. this American woman painted with the French Impressionists. She is known for her paintings of mothers and children and her pastel work.
- 22. a good friend of Mary Cassatt this artist mainly worked in pastel. He drew ballerinas, horses, using dramatic lighting, and short, parallel, diagonal brushstrokes.