artists
Learning about other artists helps us gain insight into the artistic process and allows us to gain a better understanding of how to express individual values through art.
Sandro Botticelli (Renaissance): What is the symbolism in The Birth of Venus?
Andrea Mantegna (Renaissance): What was unique about his compositions/ perspective?
John Constable (Neoclassicism): How did he create a feeling in his work?
Mary Cassatt (Impressionism): Why did she paint so many images of mothers with children?
Edgar Degas (Impressionism): Why did he focus so much on dancers?
Claude Monet (Impressionism): How did he approach light?
Georges Seurat (Post-Impressionism): How did he create a variety of color?
Henri Toulouse-Lautrec: What was his main focus? How did he glamorize Parisian night life?
Andy Goldsworthy (Post-Modernism): How did he use nature to create art and why?
Emil Nolde (Expressionism): How did he capture mood?
Kathe Kollwitz (Expressionism): What was her main focus and why?
Frida Kahlo (Surrealism): How did her life inspire her work?
Marcel Duchamp (Modernism/ Abstract Expressionism): He made a variety of things, how did he want people to react to his work?
Georgia O’Keeffe: Why did she enlarge small objects?
Marc Chagall (Surrealism): How did his background influence his images?
Renee Magritte (Surrealism): Why did he create unexpected combinations of objects?
Alberto Giacometti (Expressionism): Why did he do exaggerated, skeletal figures?
Picasso: How did he use symbolism in Guernica and The Old Guitarist?
Van Gogh: How did his life inspire his paintings?
Modigliani: How did he capture mood and personality in his portraits?
Felix Gonzales-Torres (Post Modern): What role did the audience play in his work?
David Hockney: How did his environment inspire his work?
Ed Paschke: How did the media (tv, radio) influence his work?
Keith Haring: How did he use a symbolic language and what kind of impact did his work have on political and social issues?