Artists Who Inspire: A Collection of Various Artists and Artistic Styles You 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-Impressionist focus 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 – Fauvism bright colors/childlike
Henri Matisse
Henri Matisse: Used shapes (geometric and organic), bright colors to represent Abstracted objects and people in his artwork!
Edvard Munch –Expressionist distorted 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-Art Geometric abstraction, movement through line designs, created optical illusions
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
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 Eggleston Sculpture: 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: