Painting Artists

Study Guide 1st Qt.

(20) Multiple Choice Questions

(Artist Fun Facts/Bio) 2.5 points

each

(20) Multiple Choice Questions

with Slides (Artist Last Name and

Title of Artwork) 2.5 points each

#1: Leonardo da Vinci (Italian)

Time period: The Renaissance (1400- 1600 AD)

Style: (Representational)

• Mostly religious (Christianity)

• Rebirth (Greek Classical style)

• Poses are usually very ridged with little movement

implied.

Fun Facts:

• Painter, Sculptor, draftsman, architect, engineer,

inventor, and botanist.

• His painting, The Mona Lisa, is the most famous

artwork in history.

Leonardo da Vinci

Mona Lisa, 1503

Leonardo da Vinci

The Last Supper, 1495-1498

Leonardo da Vinci

Madonna of the Rocks, 1491

Painting Artists:

#2: Michelangelo Buonarroti (Italian)

Time period: The Renaissance (1400- 1600 AD)

Style: (Representational)

Fun Facts:

• Considered himself foremost a sculptor; however,

the Pope convinced him to paint the Sistine

Chapel.

• Sculptor, painter, architect, poet, and engineer.

• In his lifetime he was also often called Il Divino

("the divine one")

Michelangelo Buonarroti

The Creation of

Adam, 1511 (Sistine

Chapel)

Painting Artists:

#3: Jan Van Eyck (Dutch)

Time period: The Renaissance (1400- 1600 AD)

Style: (Representational)

Fun Facts:

Created extremely detailed egg tempera paintings on

wooden panels.

Jan van Eyck produced paintings for private clients in

addition to his work at the court

Van Eyck is often thought to be the anonymous artist

known as Hand G of the Turin-Milan Hours. If this is correct,

the Turin illustrations are the only known works from his early

period. Most of these miniatures were destroyed by fire in

1904 and survive only in photographs and copies.

The Arnolfini Wedding,1434

Jean Van Eyck

Painting Artists:

#4: Sandro Botticelli (Italian)

Time period: The Renaissance (1400- 1600 AD)

Style: (Representational)

Fun Facts:• Birth name: Alessandro di Mariano di Vanni

Filipepi• In 1481, Pope Sixtus IV summoned Botticelli and

other prominent Florentine and Umbrian artists to fresco the walls of the Sistine Chapel.

The Birth of Venus

1486

Sandro Botticelli

#5: Albrecht Durer (German)

Time period: The Renaissance (1400- 1600 AD)

Style: (Representational)

Fun Facts:

His watercolours made him one of the first European landscape artists.

painter, engraver, printmaker, mathematician, and theorist from Nuremberg. His high-quality woodcuts (nowadays often called Meisterstiche or "master prints") established his reputation and influence across Europe when he was still in his twenties

Self-Portrait (1493)

Albrecht Dürer

Painting Artists

#6: El Greco (Spanish)

Time period: The Renaissance (1400- 1600 AD)

Style: (Representational / Expressionistic)

Fun Facts:

Painted with an exaggerated chiseled style that

precursor of both Expressionism and Cubism.

El Greco was a painter, sculptor and architect

of the Spanish Renaissance

El Greco is regarded as a

The Burial of the Count of Orgaz 1586–1588

El Greco

Baroque Painting#7: Michelangelo Caravaggio (Italian)

Time period: Baroque (1600- 1700 AD)

Style: Representational

Dramatic use of light, strong colors, theatrical, and movement.

Fun Facts:

His subject matter seems to project out of the picture plane towards the viewer.

His paintings, which combine a realistic observation of the human state, both physical and emotional, with a dramatic use of lighting, had a formative influence on the Baroque school of painting.

Caravaggio's novelty was a radical naturalism that combined close physical observation with a dramatic, even theatrical,

use of chiaroscuro.

Conversion of Saint Paul, 1601

Michelangelo Caravaggio

David with the Head of Goliath, 1609–1610

Michelangelo Caravaggio

#8: Peter Paul Rubens (Dutch)

Time period: Baroque (1600- 1700 AD)

Style: Representational

Fun Facts:

At fourteen he began his artistic apprenticeship with Tobias Verhaeght.

Rubens completed his education in 1598, at which time he entered the Guild of St. Luke as an independent master.

The Elevation of the Cross, 1610–11

Peter Paul Rubens

Baroque Painting#9: Rembrandt Van Rijn

(Dutch)Time period: Baroque (1600- 1700 AD)

Fun Facts:

• Lived (1606-1669)

• Painted over 100 self-portraits during his lifetime.

• His contributions to art came in a period of great wealth and

cultural achievement that historians call the Dutch Golden Age

when Dutch Golden Age painting, although in many ways antithetical to the Baroque style that dominated Europe, was

extremely prolific and innovative.

Self-portrait, 1669

Rembrandt Van Rijn

Rococo Painting

#11: Antoine Watteau (French) Time period: Rococo (1700- 1800 AD)

Rococo style: Use of pastel colors, playful and light-hearted subject matter, and usually romantic.

Lived (1684-1721)

Fun Facts:

Watteau is credited with inventing the genre of fêtes galantes: scenes of bucolic and idyllic charm, suffused with an air of theatricality. Some of his best known subjects were drawn from the world of Italian comedy and ballet.

The Game Of Love

1717

Antoine Watteau

Rococo Painting

#12: Jean Honore

Fragonard (French) Time period: Rococo (1700- 1800 AD)

Lived (1732-1806)

Fun Facts:

Fragonard produced more than 550 paintings (not

counting drawings and etchings), of which only five

are dated.

The Swing

1767

American Painting

#14: John Singleton Copley

(American) Time period: (1700- 1800 AD)

Style: Representational

Lived (1738-1815)

Fun Facts:

He is famous for his portrait paintings of important figures in colonial New

England

Watson and the Shark

1778

John Singleton Copley

Romanicism Painting

#15: Eugene Delacroix (French) Style: Romanticism (1800s AD)

Romanticism: intense colors, emotional, and heroic subject matter.

Lived (1738-1815)

Fun Facts:

He was a French Romantic artist regarded from the outset of his career

as the leader of the French Romantic school.

Liberty Leading the People

1830

Eugene Delacroix

Romanticism Painting

#16: Theodore Gericault (French) Romanticism: (1800s AD)

Lived (1791-1824)

Fun Facts:

Was a profoundly influential French artist, painter and lithographer,

known for The Raft of the Medusa and other paintings.

The Raft of the Medusa

1819

Theodore Gericault

American Painting

#17: Thomas Cole (American) Time period:(1830- 1910 AD)

Style: Representational

Lived (1801-1848)

Fun Facts:

Cole's Hudson River School, as well as his own work, was known for its

realistic and detailed portrayal of American landscape and wilderness,

which feature themes of romanticism.

The Course of Empire: Consummation

1835–1836

Thomas Cole

Painting

#17: Gustave Courbet (French) Style: Representational (1700- 1800 AD)

Lived (1819-1877)

Fun Facts:

He was a French painter who led the Realist movement in 19th-century

French painting.

He unintentionally influenced the Impressionists.

The Artist's Studio

1855

Gustave Courbet

Impressionism Painting

#19 Edouard Manet (French) Time period:(1800- 1900 AD)

Style: Impressionism: A style of painting in which artists tried to capture in

paint, the fleeting effects or impression of light, shade, and color on

natural forms.

Lived (1832-1883)

Fun Facts:

He was one of the first 19th-century artists to approach modern and

postmodern-life subjects.

The Luncheon on the Grass

1863

Edouard Manet

Impressionism Painting

#20: Edgar Degas (French) Time period:(1800- 1900 AD)

Style: Impressionism

Lived (1834-1917)

Fun Facts:

He is regarded as one of the founders of Impressionism, although he

rejected the term, and preferred to be called a realist.

The Dance Class

1873–1876

Edgar Degas

Impressionism Painting

#21: Claude Monet (French) Time period:(1800- 1900 AD)

Style: Impressionism

Lived (1840-1929)

Fun Facts:

The term Impressionism is derived from the title of his painting Impression,

Sunrise.

Impression, Sunrise

1872

Claude Monet

Nympheas

1916

Claude Monet

Impressionism Painting

#22: Mary Cassatt (American) Time period:(1800- 1900 AD)

Style: Impressionism

Lived (1844-1926)

Fun Facts:

Cassatt often created images of the social and private lives of women,

with particular emphasis on the intimate bonds between mothers and

children.

Summertime

1894

Mary Cassatt

Post-Impressionism Painting

#23: Vincent Van Gogh (Dutch) Time period:(1800- 1900 AD)

Style: Post Impressionists

Lived (1583-1890)

Fun Facts:

In just over a decade, he produced more than 2,100

artworks, consisting of 860 oil paintings and more

than 1,300 watercolors, drawings, sketches and

prints.

Suffered from mental illness throughout his life.

Committed suicide at age 37.

The Starry Night

1889

Vincent Van Gogh

Self-portrait

1889

Vincent Van Gogh

Post-Impressionism Painting

#24: Paul Gauguin (French)Born: Eugène Henri Paul Gauguin

7 June 1848, Paris, France

Died: 8 May 1903 (aged 54)

Atuona, Marquesas Islands, French Polynesia

Fun Facts: Known for painting, sculpture, ceramics, engraving

• Friends with Van Gogh and shared a studio space

for a time.

• Eventually moves to the island of Tahiti and paints

the native people.

Jacob Wrestling the Angle

1888

Paul Gauguin

Post-Impressionism Painting

#25: Paul Cezanne (French) Time period:(1800- 1900 AD)

Style: Post Impressionists

Lived (1839-1906)

Fun Facts:

Cézanne can be said to form the bridge between late 19th-century

Impressionism and the early 20th century's new line of artistic enquiry,

Cubism.

The Great Bathers

1898

Paul Cezanne

Post-Impressionism Painting

#26: Georges Seurat (French) Time period:(1800- 1900 AD)

Style: Post Impressionists

Lived (1859-1891)

Fun Facts:

He is noted for his innovative use of drawing media and for devising the

technique of painting known as pointillism.

A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La

Grande Jatte, 1884–1886

Georges Seurat

American Painting

#27: John Singer Sargent

(American) Time period:(1830- 1910 AD)

Style: Representational/Impressionism

Lived (1856-1925)

Fun Facts:

During his career, he created roughly 900 oil paintings and more

than 2,000 watercolors, as well as countless sketches and

charcoal drawings.

The Daughters of Edward Darley Boit

1882

John Singer Sargent