Famous Artists
• Students will choose a famous artist from the following
list.
• Students who choose the same artist will be placed in a
group together to create a presentation about the artist.
Artist Choices
Painters
• Leonardo Da Vinci
• John James Audubon
• Salvador Dali
Modern Artists
• Andy Warhol
• Dale Chihuly
• Barbara Kruger
Photographers
• Ansel Adams
• Carl Warner
Giuseppe Arcimboldo
Georgia O’Keefe
Sandy Skoglund
Peit Mondrian
Andy Goldsworthy
M. C. Escher
Scott Mutter
Chuck Close
Leonardo Da Vinci
• Renaissance Artist and
inventor who lived in
Europe during the 1500’s
• His artwork focused on
realism and perspective.
• Most famous for
painting the Mona Lisa,
and The Last Supper.
Giuseppe Arcimboldo
• Italian painter who was born in 1527
• He was the son of an artist and was commissioned to
paint portraits of people and create stained glass
windows.
• Giuseppe is famous for his whimsical portraits of
people using objects from nature to create faces.
Carl Warner
• Carl Warner creates all of
his art out of food.
• He makes a scene with
only food objects and
then photographs it and
lists each ingredient
alphabetically.
• He is a living artist from
England
Salvador Dali
• American Surrealist
Painter who used normal
objects in unusual ways
to play tricks with the
mind.
• Art Museum in St.
Petersburg dedicated to
his paintings.
Andy Warhol
• New York City Artist who invented Pop Art.
• POP Art stands for popular images
• Andy Warhol took everyday items and created prints of them.
He repeated his prints over and over in different colors.
• Andy Warhol was famous in the 1960’s for his loft in New York
City where he created art, movies and had huge parties
Chuck Close
• American painter
and photographer
whose portriat
work is in the style
of photorealism
• Chuck Close often works from photographic
stills to create paintings of people that appear
to be photographs. Close suffers from
Prosopagnosia, also known as face blindness,
in which he is unable to recognize faces.
M C Escher
• One of the worlds most famous graphic artists.
• M C Escher worked mostly with printmaking and
lithography
• In his graphic art, he portrayed mathematical
relationships among shapes, figures and space.
Additionally, he explored interlocking figures
using black and white to enhance different
dimensions.
John James Audubon
• Famous American historical artist who scientifically documented
nature of the North American Continent.
• Audubon created drawings of over 500 species of birds in the
early 1800’s before photography was invented. He then
engraved his drawings on copper plates to create prints from
them.
• Audubon’s name can be seen all over the United States today as
parks, towns, and many nature societies are named in his honor.
Georgia O’Keefe
• American female artist of
the twentieth century
(1900’s) and is famous
for her paintings of
flowers and desert
landscapes of the
Southwestern US.
• Her work mainly focuses
on color, texture, and is
very beautiful
Dale Chuihuly
• Contemporary living
American artist who
works with glass to
create colorful
sculptures.
• Dale Chuihuly’s work
can be seen in hotels,
gardens and current
museum exhibits.
• Look around and you
will see one!
Andy Goldsworthy
• Installation artist who
creates sculptures from
only naturally found
objects in nature.
• Andy Goldsworthy then
photographs his work to
preserve it.
Ansel Adams
• Pioneer of Photography who worked mainly in the
American West documenting the first National Parks
when the art form was new and difficult to work with.
• Famous for his detailed and flawless photography on
glass plates that took hours to capture and print.
Scott Mutter
• Modern Photographic artist who uses multiple
photographs together to create artwork that is surreal
and unusual.
Sandy Skoglund
•
• Skoglund creates surrealist images by
building elaborate sets and furnishing
them with carefully selected colored
furniture and other objects. This process
takes her months to complete and is then
photographed with actors.
Her artworks are
characterized by an
overwhelming amount of
one object and bright,
contrasting colors that
create a strange and
surprising juxtaposition.
Barbara Kruger
• Modern American Artist
who asks questions of
the viewer with her art
and makes powerful
statements.
“ I work with pictures and
words because they have
the ability to determine
who we are, and who we
are not.”
Please choose an artist at this time
• Pick your 1st, 2nd & 3rd choice
• You will be assigned a group to work with next class.
Pablo Picasso
• Famous contemporary
twentieth century artist
who created the art
movement of cubism
which adds geometric
lines and shapes into
objects
• Picasso painted in Spain
and is famous for his
portraits
Frida Kahlo
• Mexican female painter
who was married to a
famous mural painter
Diego Rivera
• Often painted strange
self- portraits and
cultural themes
Piet Mandrin
• Abstract artist who created
works of art
using color, line and
geometric shapes.
Piet Mandrin worked in Paris
and New York City in the
early 1900’s.
His work was revolutionary due
to it’s simplistic perfection of
geometric shapes and
primary colors that are
appealing to the human eye.