20 th Century Artist Scavenger Hunt Four Very Different Artists

Pablo Picasso Picasso was born in Spain in 1881 but spent most of his adult life in France. He is most noted for his paintings but he was also a sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, stage designer, poet and playwright. He was 91 when he died. The 3 periods that dominated his work were: Blue Period, Rose Period, Modern (Cubism, Classicism/Surrealism, African Influenced) His mural sized paining, “Guernica,” was in response to the bombing of Guernica during the Spanish Civil War by Germany and Italy in Depicting the tragedies of war and the suffering it inflicts upon innocent people, the painting is regarded as the single most important work of the 20 th century by some art historians.

Pablo Picasso, the man

Piet Mondrian Piet Mondrian was a Dutch painter who lived from He work is dominated by the De Stijl movement (Dutch for “The Style”). This style, non-representational which is sometimes referred to as pure abstraction, is essentially form (lines) and color, i.e., the primary colors plus black and white. He was and is still considered the founder of Modern Art. His initial artwork prior to the De Stijl movement was heavily influenced Picasso’s Cubism.

Piet Mondrian

Grant Wood Grant Wood was an American painter born in Iowa in He died in His style is described as Regionalism. Most of his work depicts rural American themes of the Midwest. After graduating from high school, he enrolled in an art school in Minneapolis in After working a year as a teacher in a one room schoolhouse, Wood trained at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in Wood is best known for his painting, “American Gothic.”

L. S. Lowry L. S. Lowry was an English artist who was born in 1887 in Stretford, Lancashire, United Kingdom. His is known mainly for his paintings of industrial districts and urban landscapes. His human figures are sometimes referred to as “matchstick men.” Although he was a famous artist who earned many awards, Lowry worked at Pall Mall Property Company until he was 65 and did his painting at night and when he was on holiday.

L. S. Lowry

Sleeping Drinker

Guernica

Buste de Femme

The Old Guitarist

Crazy Woman with Cats

Woman with Loaves

Les Demoiselles d’Avignon

Garcon a la pipe

Les Noces de Pierrette

Femme Acrobat

Femme Couchee Lisant

Girl Before a Mirror

Guernica

Nude Green Leaves and Bust

Pichet au Fleurs

Seated Woman

The Weeping Woman

Three Musicians

Sleeping Woman

Tragedy

Abstraction

Chrysanthemum

Composition II in Red, Blue and Yellow

Composition No. 2

Gray Tree

Houses on the Gein

Lonely Tree at the Gein

Pier and Ocean

Seated Woman

Sailboat Moored in a River

Self Portrait

American Gothic

Midnight Ride of Paul Revere

Daughters of Revolution

Arnold Comes of Age

City Album

January

Near Sundown

Parson Weem’s Fable

Portrait of Francis Fiske Marshall

Woman with Plant

Young Corn

Appraisal

Coming From the Mill

Station Approach

Coming Out of School

Going to the Match

Going to Work

Industrial Landscape

Man Lying on a Wall

Portrait of Ann

The Pond

Yachts