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
Giuseppe Arcimboldo
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.
Vertumnus, a portrait of Rudolf II
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Gustav Klimt
Created paintings using vibrant
colors, shapes and patterns.
Overlayed paintings in Gold Paint
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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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
The Golden Fish
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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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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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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 6th Avenue and 55th Street in Manhattan
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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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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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Keith Harring
Created whimsical Graffiti Art with characters that appeared to
move with motion lines
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Rene Magritte
Belgian Surrealistic Painter. Surrealism is absurd and we call it
painting like a dream
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Grant Wood
Painter who created paintings that represented Midwest
Americana. Most Famous Painting is American Gothic
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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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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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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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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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