Artists Who Inspire: A Collection of Various

Artists and Artistic StylesYou will be selecting an artist/

artist’s style to research and utilize for your own work of art

Edgar Degas-Impressionist Painter

Edgar Degas:

Edgar Degas

Claude Monet-Impressionistfocus on light, landscapes, water lilies

Claude Monet

Georges Seurat – Post impressionist, used pointillism

Georges Seurat: Post-Impressionist

Vincent Van Gogh – Post Impressionist, used thick paint, lots of movement in his brush-strokes….

Marc Chagall- primitive/fantasy art-bright colors

Leonetto Cappiello –Poster designer‘Art Nouveau’ style, used for advertising

Henri Matisse – Fauvismbright colors/childlike

Henri Matisse

Henri Matisse: Used shapes (geometric and organic) , bright colors to represent Abstracted objects and people in his artwork!

Edvard Munch –Expressionistdistorted radically for emotional effect

Georges Braque – Cubist, distorts image to be seen from all sides

Norman Rockwell – Realist, soft tones and imagery of “Slice of American” life

Salvador Dali –Surrealist, dream like style, highly intense in color and realism

Piet Mondrian – Geometric abstraction, color and squares

Bridget Riley: Op-ArtGeometric abstraction, movement through line designs, created optical illusions

Bridget Riley

Bridget Riley

Mark Rothko – Abstract Expressionist, “color field painting”

Rothko

Willem de Kooning – Abstract Expressionist, color, shape and abstracted reality

Jackson Pollock – Abstract Expressionism, splatter/drip paintings—very large scale

Roy Lichtenstein – Pop Artist, comic-strip/ book style..large scale paintings

Roy Lichtenstein

Roy Lichtenstein

Roy Lichtenstein

Robert Rauschenberg: Pop Artist-mixed media images of pop culture

Lance Letscher: Texas based collage artist—uses old album covers, book covers, children’s books, old

candy packaging, old letters, postcards, etc.(p.s. Mrs. Pace/Elliott LOVES Lance’s work)

Jasper Johns, Pop Art- thick paint often pictures of American flags

Jasper Johns

David Hockney – British Pop Artist, painter, printmaker and photographer. His ‘Photo-collages’ used Repetition and overlapping of printed images arranged as a skewed ‘patchwork’ to make complete images. His photo-collages emulated the Cubist style.

David Hockney: Pearblossom Highway

David Hockney:

Georgia O'Keeffe – Contemporary, painted close ups of flowers, animal skulls and

landscapes

Jean-Michel Basquiat, Contemporary- known for “primitive” urban looking style

Banksy – British ‘street artist’Contemporary-Uses graffiti and his own

stencils—funny, political statements

Banksy

Banksy: This piece is on a wall in Palestine…

Banksy: (can you tell I love Banksy?)

Banksy: Flower grenade on some war-torn country’s public wall…..

Other Artists/ Styles/Mediums to consider:Photography– Ansel Adams, Annie Liebowitz, William EgglestonSculpture: Alexander Calder (kinetic mobiles), Andy Goldsworthy (uses natural objects like twigs, stones, rocks, leaves, etc. to make sculptures outdoors)JOSEPH CORNELL: Found Object “Box Assemblages”

Joseph Cornell: