most recognizable works of art. edvard munch “the scream” 1893 norwegian expressionist painting

Most Recognizable Works of Art

• Edvard Munch• “The Scream”• 1893• Norwegian • Expressionist painting

• Auguste Rodin • “The Thinker”• 1902 completed• Divine Comedy of Dante • Represents Poetry and

Philosophy• French Sculpture

• Michelangelo• “La Pietà” • 1499 • Italian painter,

sculptor, architect• Renaissance Sculpture

• Michelangelo• “Creation of Adam”• Sistine Chapel, Vatican• between 1508 and 1512

• Michelangelo• “David”• Marble Sculpture• created between

1501 and 1504

• Salvador Dalí • “The

Persistence of Memory”

• 1931 • His most

recognizable works

• Piet Mondrian• “Composition II in

Yellow, Blue and Red”

• 1937-42 Oil on Canvas

• Dutch artist• De Stijl art movement

in the Netherlands

Vincent van Gogh

“Self-Portrait”

1889

Oil on Canvas

• Vincent Van Gogh• “Starry Night”• 1889• Dutch • Post-impressionist

• Vincent Van Gogh• “Café Terrace at Night”• 1888• Oil on canvas

• Andy Warhol• “Campbell’s Soup I”• 1968• Pop Art

• Andy Warhol• Lemon Marilyn• 1962• Pop art

• Jacques-Louis David• “The Oath of the Horatii”• 1784• Neoclassic

• Gustav Klimt• “The Kiss”• 1907• Austrian painter• Art Nouveau

• Leonardo da Vinci• “Mona Lisa”• 1503-1506• Renaissance oil painting• Portrait of Lisa Gherardini

• Paul Jackson Pollock• “Convergence”• 1952• Oil on canvas• Abstract Expressionist

• Pablo Picasso• The Old Guitarist• 1903• Oil on panel• Picasso’s Blue Period

• Pablo Picasso • “Guernica”• Spanish • 1937• 11 x 25.6 ft

• M.C. Escher• “Drawing Hands”• 1948

• Théodore Géricault • “The Raft of the Medusa”• 1818-1819• Oil painting• French Romantic

painter

• Wassily Kandinsky• “Transverse Line”• Oil on canvas • Russian artist

• James McNeill Whistler• Whistler’s Mother (Arrangement in Grey and Black: The

Artist's Mother)• Oil on canvas• American artist

• Francisco de Goya• “The Third of May 1808”• Spanish romantic painter• Completed 1814• Illustrates the Spanish

resistance to Napoleon

• Francisco de Goya• Saturn Devouring His Children • 1819-23• Based on the Greek

myth of the Titan Cronus

• Grant Wood• American Gothic• American art movement • 1930

• The Winged Victory of Samothrace • Unknown artist• Nike of Samothrace, being a 3rd Century

BC marble sculpture of the Greek Goddess of Victory.

• between 220 and 190 BC. • Helenistic Period

• Katsushika Hokusai• “The Great Wave Off Kanagawa”• 1823-29• Japanese artist• Printmaker

• Marcel Duchamp • “Fountain”• 1917• Found art or readymades

• Henri Matisse• “Portrait of

Madame Matisse (the Green Line)”

• 1905• Oil and Tempra on

Canvas

• Jacque-Louis David• “Napolean

Crossing the Alps”• 1805• Oil on Canvas

• Johannes Vermeer• “Girl with a Pearl

Earring”• Dutch Artist• AKA the Dutch Mona Lisa

• Roy Lichtenstein • “Drowning Girl”• Pop Art