Cassatt, Mary

Country: USA, Pittsburgh 

Style: Impressionism 

Museum: Art Institute of Chicago 

Happy, nuturance between mom and child 

Inspired by Japanese Child 

Friends with Degas

Van Gogh, Vincent 

Country: Holland 

Style: Post-Impressionism 

Museum: IMA 

Location: Indiana 

View from asylum window

Artist's own graveyard 

Self-Portrait 

Van Gogh, Vincent 

Country: Holland 

Style: Post-Impressionism 

Museum: The Met 

Kraft Mac and Cheese Brushstroke 

Impasto 

Self-Portrait 

Inspired by Millet

Theo 

Lust for Life-Kirk Douglas was nominated for Best Actor Oscar 

Van Gogh, Vincent 

Country: Holland

Style: Post-Impressionism 

Museum: MoMA

Brushstroke-Kraft Mac and Cheese 

Cyprus Trees

1889 

Friends with Gauguin 

Originally studied to be a priest 

Asylum-ended up there 

Theo-Brother 

Lust for Life 

Greatest Inspiration was Millet 

Artist committed suicide by shooting himself 

El Greco 

Country: Spain 

Style: Mannerism 

Painting is in church Santo Tome 

Chiascero-black 

Count Orgaz 

Miter hat on Bishop 

Artist inspired Vermeer 

St. Peter, Virgin Mary, St. John the Baptist 

"Means the Greek" 

Dedicated to a man who gave lots of money to adorn a church 

Elongated bodies 

Picasso, Paublo 

Country: Spain 

Style: Blue Period 

Museum: Art Institute of Chicago 

Dedicated to outcast or victims of society 

Blue Period 

Greatest inspiration El Greco 

Casgemus-Friend who comitted suicide 

Magriette, Rene 

Style: Surrealism-Beyond Reality 

Museum: Minneapolis Institute of Arts

Isoscles triangles, inspired Euclidean geometry, Paris 

Mansauder

Window Painting

Easel 

Nightgown 

Dechmp, Marcel 

Country: America 

Style: Dada-"She has a hot ass"

Museum: Philadelphia Museum of Art

Elle a Chaud Cul-LHOOQ

WWII

Anal Sex

Acronym

Artist added Mustache and gotee 

pencil

Mona Lisa

Threw a knife at a dictonary and landed on hobby horse

Leonardo Da Vinci

Poscard

Degas

Country:France

Style: Impressionism-Capturing passing moment 

Museum: The Met

Most known for Ballerina 

Ballet

Aritst believed that women should be painted ugly 

inspired by Japanese prints

Came from a wealthy banking family

Friends with Cassatt 

Cropping down 

Ests, Richard 

Country:America 

Style: Photo Realist

Museum: Nelson-Atkins

Location: Kansas City, MI

Glass reflections of urban storefronts

Trompe l'oeil=Fool the Eye

Bank across street

Dali, Salvador

Country:Spain 

Style: Surrealism 

Museum: Salvador Dali Museum 

Location: St.Petersburg, FL 

Compote

Voltaire: 19th Century French Philosopher 

Gala

Double Image-Where one thing turns into another 

Artist believed religion and politics are both corrupt but are needed to balanace 

Dali, Salvador 

Country: Spain 

Style: Surrealism 

Museum: Philadelphia Museum of Art 

Professor 

Symbolizing for appeasing gods 

Spain and Portugal 

Iberian Pensuila

Obstraction of outline of Spain 

Premonition of future outbreak of Civil War in Spain 

O'Keeffe, Georgia 

Country: America

Style: American Realism 

Museum: The Met

Animal skulls and bones 

Inspired by the Blue Sky of New Mexico 

Farm Girl

O'Keeffe, Georgia 

Country: America 

Style: American Realism 

Museum: IMA

Inspired by the Blue sky of New Mexico 

Rocky Mountains 

Farm Girl 

Used to be a school teacher 

O'Keeffe, Georgia 

Country: America 

Style: American Realism 

Museum: Millwaukee Museum of Art 

Painting of flowers

Poppies 

Sun Praire Wisconsin-Born here 

Grew up a farm girl 

Used to be a school teacher 

Cropping 

Inspired by being couped up in a small apartment in New York 

Mondrian 

Country: Dutch-Holland 

Style: De Stijl-Style also has a magazine 

Museum: Carniege Museum 

WWII

Going for the essence

Artist believed "the appearence of objects distort beauty therefore they must be eliminated."

Mondarian

Country: Holland

Style: De Stijl 

Museum: Phillips Collection 

Location: Washington D.C. 

WWI 

White Background 

Black lines

Primary Colors 

Smithson, Robert 

Country: America

Style: Enviornmental Art-Art work created directly in the world 

Inspired by Mormon belief of underground connection to Pacific Ocean 

Rocky Mountain 

Utah-Salt Lake City

Great Salt Lake 

1,500 ft Long 15 Feet wide 

Dump Truck Beep! Beep! Beep!

Died in planecrash viewing his artwork 

Joseph Smith

Sight Specific 

Inspired by Ancient Native American mounds in home state of Ohio 

Manet 

Country: French 

Style: Impressionism 

Museum: Louvre

Picnic 

1863

Naked woman 

Sigueiros

Country: Mexico 

Style: Social Realism 

Museum: MoMA

Communist 

Baby sitting on a heap 

Oil refineries 

Very political 

Artist went to jail for political beliefs 

Dali, Salvador 

Country: Spain 

Style: Surrealism 

Museum: MoMA

Self-Portrait 

Melted Object

Catlonia 

Great Masturbation Series

Ests, Richard 

Country: America

Style: Photo Realism 

Museum: Whitney Museum of American Art 

Hotel, NYC 

Diptych-2 Panel Painting 

McDonald's 

Picasso, Paublo 

Country: Spain 

Style: Blue Period 

Museum: National Gallery of Art

Greatest influence El Greco 

Casgemus 

Dechump, Marcel 

Country: America 

Style: Cubism 

Stairs 

Portraiture 

Greatest influence Cezanne 

Brown Triangles 

Millet 

Country: France 

Style: Barbizon-Artist moved to Barbizon from Paris to escape Chlorea outbreak 

Museum: Louvre 

Respect and Dignity for Peasant worker 

Itinerant housing 

Honey-Golden Sun-Kissed coloration 

French Government became paranoid due to the political and socialist messages it may suggest 

Rembrandt 

Country: Holland 

Style: Dutch Golden Age 

Museum: National Gallery of Art

Chiarscero 

Based on a Bible story

Gensis:39

Rape Accusation 

Potiphar's Wife

Someone in this painting went to jail 

Dream Interpretor 

Calder

Country: America Born in Philly

Style: Kinetic-Artwork that moves

Museum: National Gallery of Art 

In West Buildings atrium/courtyard 

Steel, originally studied to be engineer

Supported by parents

they built him his own art studio at 8 

Vermeer 

Country: Dutch 

Style: Delft School 

Museum: National Gallery of Art 

Chiarscero-Green and Blue 

Woman holding a balance 

Jesus is in the painting

El Greco is in the painting 

Domestic inerior (kitchen) with light coming in the window 

created only 35 paintings 

Died poor, unappreciated, young (43), left behind a wife and 11 children 

Stewart

Country:America 

Style: Federalist Portraiture 

Musuem: National Gallery of Art

Met the sitter through a mutual friend, Chief Justice John Jay 

Artist died poor-coffin and undertaker's bill $36 left behind debt $17,000 in 1828

Monet 

Country:France

Style: Impressionism 

Museum: Milwaukee Art Museum 

Location:Wisconsin 

London, Thames River

Greatest influence from Turner 

Pollution, Series painting 

Factories 

Monet, Claude 

Country:France

Style:Impressionism 

Grain Stacks

Part of a series 

Flickering Brushstrokes 

Mone, Claude

Country: France

Style: Impressionism-Wanting of passing moment

Museum: Cleveland Museum of Art

Wanting to show effects of sun water lilies 

Enpleinair-Painting in the outdoors

Paris 

Giverny-Artist's summer garden home 

Cezanne, Paul 

Country: France

Style: Post-Impressionism 

Museum: Art Institute of Chicago 

Bowls of Fruit

Still-life 

Greatest influence of development of cubism 

Known for squarish brushstroke 

Cezanne, Paul 

Country: France

Style: Post-Impressionism 

Museum: Philadelphia Museum of Art 

Mountain landscapes

Part of a series paintings

Greatest influence on Braque 

Bierstadt 

Country: America 

Style: Rocky Mountain School 

Museum: Met 

Location: New York 

Rocky Mountains 

Magnifying glasses

Acronymn: U.S.G.S 

Was official U.S. Geological Surveying Team 

Native American Indians 

Teepees

Museum gave magnifying glases

 Fought with Church 

Bierstadt 

Country: America 

Style: Rocky Mountain School 

Museum: National Gallery of Art 

Painting used to be at Corcoran 

Faught with Church 

Plateau 

Buffalo 

Braque 

Country: France

Style: Cubism-Exploration of 3-D on a flat surface

Greatest influence is Cezanne 

Co-Founder of Cubism 

Krasner, Lee 

Country: USA 

Style: Abstract Expressionism-Paint has been given its freedom 

Acronymn: W.P.A-Works Progress Administration

Federal fund supporting artists during great depression 

Marcia Gay Harden won Best Supporting Actress Oscar for playing this artist 

The Movie Pollock

Browns and Darks 

Married to Pollock 

Magritte, Rene 

Country: Belguim 

Style: Surrealism-Beyond Reality 

Museum: LACM 

Location: Los Angeles 

This is not a pipe=Ceci n'est pas une pipe 

Nightgown

Artist's mom jumped off a bridge and committed suicide 

Bosche

Country: Holland 

Style: Reinassience 

Museum: Pradeo 

Adam and Eve, Jesus, Garden of Eden 

Done in 1505 

Triptych-3 Panel Paintings 

L-Life without Sin 

Middle-Consequences of sin 

R-Hell 

Anuszkiewicz, Richard 

Country: America, Erie 

Style: Op Art-Concerned more with optical stimulation than pictoral repersentation 

color op

Influenced by Physics

Handpainted 

Twombley, Cy 

Country:America 

Style: Minimilism-Return to discipline and introspection in art 

Museum: Milwaukee Art Museum 

Grey Chalkboards 

Cryptology 

Used to work in US Army studying secret code and messages 

Vigee-Lebrun, Elizabeth 

Country: French 

Style: Rococo 

Museum: Versailles 

Location: Paris 

Queen of France 

Painted Kings and Queens 

Court Painter

Used to be a Hairdresser

French Aristocracy 

Pre-Revolution 

Men created sexual rumors and scandals to ruin career 

Artist escaped to Russia when French Revolution started Pointing at the points the cradle to symbolize a crown 

velvet fabric 

Turner 

Country: England 

Style: Romanticism 

Dirty colors-muddy colors

The Alps-Switerzerland 

greatest influence on Monet and development of impressionism 

snowstorm/avalachne/thunderstorm

"turning" motion 

swiss ski resort