1. 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

2. Edgar Degas-Impressionist Painter

3. Edgar Degas:

4. Edgar Degas

5. Claude Monet-Impressionist focus on light, landscapes, water lilies

6. Claude Monet

9. Georges Seurat – Post impressionist, used pointillism

10. Georges Seurat: Post-Impressionist

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

12. Marc Chagall- primitive/fantasy art- bright colors

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

14. Henri Matisse – Fauvism bright colors/childlike

15. Henri Matisse

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

17. Edvard Munch –Expressionist distorted radically for emotional effect

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

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

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

21. Piet Mondrian – Geometric abstraction, color and squares

22. Bridget Riley: Op-Art Geometric abstraction, movement through line designs, created optical illusions

23. Bridget Riley

25. Mark Rothko – Abstract Expressionist, “color field painting”

26. Rothko

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

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

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

30. Roy Lichtenstein

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

34. 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)

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

39. Jasper Johns

40. 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.

41. David Hockney: Pearblossom Highway

42. David Hockney:

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

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

45. Banksy – British ‘street artist’ Contemporary-Uses graffiti and his own stencils—funny, political statements

46. Banksy

47. Banksy: This piece is on a wall in Palestine…

48. Banksy: (can you tell I love Banksy?)

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

50. 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”

51. Joseph Cornell: