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?