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 artbright 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
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, comicstrip/ book style..large scale paintings
Roy Lichtenstein
Roy Lichtenstein
Roy Lichtenstein
Robert Rauschenberg: Pop Artistmixed 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, Contemporaryknown 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 wartorn 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: