FAMOUS ARTISTS
INTRO
Mary Cassatt
 American Impressionist
One of the few women
artists of her day
Famous for painting
children
Possible love affair with
Edgar Degas
Marc Chagall
 Famous for art and
stained glass work
 Russian who ended up
in U.S. after the
Holocaust
 Colorful Cubist with
religious themes
Salvador Dali
 Spanish Surrealist
 Dream-like nightmares
 Eccentric –
superstitious,
germophobe, etc.
Edgar Degas
 French Impressionist
 Famous for his
paintings of ballet
dancers
 Possible love affair
with Mary Cassatt
Paul Gauguin
 French Post-
Impressionist
 Settled in Tahiti and
took up with the native
girls there
 Bouts of depression
and alcohol abuse
Vincent Van Gogh
 French Impressionist
 Mental issues and
alcohol abuse
 Cut off ear
 Never sold a painting
while alive
Hokusai
 Japanese artist and
printmaker
 Worked under many
aliases
 Created 100s of pieces
Edward Hopper
 American Realist
 Depressed and lonely
 Alienation portrayed in
artwork
Frida Kahlo
 Mexican Realist
 Tragic accident as a
young girl
 Married to artist Diego
Rivera
Paul Klee
 Swiss-German
Expressionist
 Loved children’s style
art and geometric
shapes
 Bauhaus
Jacob lawrence
 African-American
Artist – closest to
cubism
 Harlem Renaissance
 African-American
experience and history
Leonardo da Vinci
 Italian Renaissance
 Artist, scientist,
thinker, inventor
 “The Last Supper”
Roy Lichtenstein
 American pop artist
 Ben-Day dots
 Comic art
Henri Matisse
 French Fauvist (fauve =
wild beast)
 Master of bright,
excessive color
 Papercut collages in
addition to paintings
Michelangelo
 Renaissance painter
and sculptor
 Sistine Chapel
 Obsessed with human
form
Claude Monet
 French Impressionist
 “Grandfather” of the
Impressionist
movement
 Obsessed with light
Georgia O’Keeffe
 American Southwest
 Flowers and cow skulls
 Famous and rich
Pablo Picasso
 Father of Cubism
 Spanish cubist
 Womanizer & hated by
feminists
Jackson Pollock
 American abstract
artist
 Drip method
 Bi-polar and alcoholic
Auguste Renoir
 French Impressionist
 Beautiful girls, women,
rich lifestyle
 Continued to paint
despite health issues
later in life
Diego Rivera
 Mexican realist painter
and muralist
 Political – obsessed
with plight of migrant
workers
 Married to Frida Kahlo
Norman Rockwell
 Mr. Americana
 Wholesome images of
America and its people
 Saturday Evening Post
– magazine he
designed covers
Henri Toulouse-Lautrec
 French Impressionist
 Very sick as child which
caused crippling
 Hung with the lower
class (prostitutes, drug
addicts, etc.)
Andy Warhol
 American Pop Artist
 Loved disposable pop
culture and celebrities
 Famous quote – “In the
future, everybody will
be world famous for
fifteen minutes.”
Artist Introductory Paragraph –
Opener, Intro Artist, Thesis
History/Basic Bio Paragraph
Birth, Family, Childhood, Schooling, Spouse/Love interests, Children
Career Paragraph
Art School or Self-taught , Art Style, Where the Artist Worked (did he/she
move and why?), Popular during life or after?, Other artist friends
Artwork Critique/Most Famous Painting
Painting’s name, Style, How does it represent that artist?, Story behind the
painting, Why is it famous?, Where is it now?
Conclusion/Wrap-up Paragraph
Restate thesis, End of artist life (death sentence), Impact on
art world, Artist’s influence that you see in our world
Citation Info
 At least one (1) book
 At least two (2) online sources
using the Artist Jogtheweb
 Cite each source using
documentation provided (such as in
DISCUS) or EasyBib
Artist Animoto
 http://animoto.com/play/sb6f3QQ6FdAzFNY
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 Create an Animoto featuring a picture of your
artist along with examples of his/her work.
 Each picture must be cited in a separate
bibliography – make sure it is truly artwork by
your artist rather than a knockoff. IF you
choose to use examples of art inspired by
your artist, make that clear in your Animoto.