1. City Kids ART Program PS 187 Dear Faculty and Parents, Here is a reference guide for the artist and the art work we have done this year. It has been my great privilege to work with you and your children. If you have any question, please feel free to contact me. Thank you. Donetta Riley City Kids Music info@citykidsmusic.com

2. Arcimboldo spent the last 25 years of his life as an Austrian court painter, composing his portraits using different types of fruits, vegetables, different seasons and elements of the earth. A style that is featured in his work is ‘mannerism’ (spatial incongruity and excessive elongation of the human figure One form of this in Arcimboldo’s art work was the ability to have two pictures in one painting simply by turning it upside down. Giuseppe Arcimboldo

3. VertumnusVertumnus, a portrait of Rudolf IIRudolf II

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7. Gustav Klimt Created paintings using vibrant colors, shapes and patterns. Overlayed paintings in Gold Paint

8. Tree of Life “I have the gift of neither the spoken nor the written word, especially if I have to say something about myself or my work. Whoever wants to know something about me -as an artist, the only notable thing- ought to look carefully at my pictures and try and see in them what I am and what I want to do." Gustav Klimt

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10. Paul Klee Used children’s books to inspire his whimsical art work. Lots of shapes and fantastic images. Famous painting of the Golden Fish, using oil paints and then overlaying with water color

11. The Golden Fish

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13. Piet Mondrian Loved to paint shapes with thick black lines. Piet mainly used Red, Yellow and Blue, the Primary colors, as his shape colors

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16. Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen Created large scale sculptures of everyday objects. Their goal was a little bit satire and a statement that art can be anywhere if we are willing to look

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19. Robert Indiana Sculpts Large scale number and letter installations. The power of these works stemmed from their symmetrical arrangements of color and form. His most famous sculpture is the LOVE sculpture, which can be seen at 6 th Avenue and 55 th Street in Manhattan

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22. Wassily Kandinsky Russian Painter who explored Modern Art. Was known as the Father of Abstract Art. Loved to use shapes and bright colors. He loved painting to music and you can see this influence in the movement and flow of his pieces

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25. Roy Lichtenstein Pop Artist whose paintings resembled Comics. He used bright colors (mostly primary: red, blue and yellow), strong emotions and thought and speech bubbles `

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28. Keith Harring Created whimsical Graffiti Art with characters that appeared to move with motion lines

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31. Rene Magritte Belgian Surrealistic Painter. Surrealism is absurd and we call it painting like a dream

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34. Grant Wood Painter who created paintings that represented Midwest Americana. Most Famous Painting is American Gothic

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37. Georgia O’Keefe American Painter who made New Mexico her home. Painted beautiful flowers that filled the whole canvas with vibrant color

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40. Frida Kahlo Surrealistic Painter who was Queen of the Self Portrait. She was the subject of her paintings because she knew herself the best. She also used native Mexican symbols and scenery in her works

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43. MC Escher Maurits Cornelis Escher, usually referred to as M. C. Escher, was a Dutch graphic artist. He is known for his often mathematically inspired woodcuts, lithographs, and mezzotints. Master of Tessalations

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46. Vincent Van Gogh Dutch Painter who created the work Starry Night. He was famous for his thick paintings using a technique called Impasto. The paint was so thick it had to be applied with a palette knife

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