2013 final exam review pinconning hs

Art Final Exam REVIEW

Pinconning High School Final Exam Review

2012

Leonardo da Vinci

1452- 1519 Italian High

Renaissance Country: Italy Mona Lisa Last Supper

Mona Lisa The Last Supper

Michelangelo

Italian High Renaissance

Country: Italy 1475-1564 Greatest artist that ever

lived? Sistine Chapel

Sistine Chapel

Claude Monet

Impressionism inventor

Paris, France 1840- 1926 Sunrise: Impressionism Interested in how

sunlight affected scenes

Sunrise: Impressionism 1872

Edgar Degas

Impressionism Paris, France 1834- 1917 Subjects: ballet &

horses

Edgar Degas

Vincent van Gogh

Post-impressionism 1853- 1890 From: Holland Mentally unstable- cut

off part of his ear, etc. Starry Night

Starry Night, 1889

Georgia O'keefe

American female watercolorist

1887- 1985 Abstract FLOWERS &

skulls Red Canna

Red Canna

Frida Kahlo

Mexican Artist 1907- 1954 Married to famous

muralist, Diego Rivera Symbolic work to

express her pain

Jacob Lawrence

African-American artist

1917-2000 *focused on African-

American civil rights freedom movement(s)

spent time in foster care...

Educated by Harlem artistic workshops

Jacob Lawrence...The Library

Pablo Picasso

Spanish artist Inventor of Cubism 1881- 1973 Child prodigy

Andy Warhol

1928- 1987 American Pop Artist International celebrity

& pop culture icon ...took mass produced

products & turned them into art

Artist & film maker

Tyree Guyton 1955- still alive Detroit, MI African-

American urban environmentalist

Heidelberg project: transformed neighborhood into outdoor art gallery by painting abandoned homes

Keith Haring

1958- 1990 New York graffiti

artist- subways Died of AIDS Gesture figure drawing

Diego Rivera

Mexican wall muralist 1886- 1957 Husband to Frida

Kahlo Completed Detroit

Industry wall murals at the Detroit Institute of Arts

Gustuv Klimt

1862- 1918 Austrian symbolist

painter Patterns, gold, woman

subject Adele Bloch Bauer

(pictured) sold for record $135 million in 2006!

Edvard Munch

1863- 1944 The Scream Norwegian symbolist

painter Themes: love,

fear/anxiety, death

Jasper Johns

1930 - ? American

contemporary artist Subject: American

flags in abstract

Paul Klee

German & Swiss painter

1879- 1940 Bahaus art teacher for

10 years Friends with artist

Wasily Kandinsky Influenced by

expressionist, cubist & surrealist painters

Henry Moore

1898- 1986 English sculptor Semi-abstract bronze

sculptures Subjects: female or

reclining figures **pieces pierced or

hollow