Renaissance Men
The quintessntial Renaissance man from Vinci, Italy who explored and excecuted it all; including art, writing, engineering, architecture
Who Is Leonardo da Vinci?
This iconic pop artist was well-known for his massive and smaller, colorful and repetitive depictions of soup cans, and celebrities such as Marilyn Monroe.
Who is Andy Warhol?
Infamous for his frivolous depiction of flora from his favorite garden in Giverny.
Who is Monet?
This brilliant Baroque painter was famous for her dramatic depictions of strong, female biblical figures.
Who is Artemisa Gentilleschi?
Known for his massive color field paintings, this painter is often associated with spirituality in art in the 1950's.
Who is Mark Rothko?
In the later Renaissance, his Sistine ceiling would become one of his most notable and revered works.
Who is Michelangelo?
This Afro-Latino artist rose to fame with his street art that fused art historical context with grafitti, usually "signing" his work with his signature crown.
Who is Basquiat?
Often described as symbolically feminine, this artist is known for her large scale depictions of detailed flowers.
Who is Georgia O'keefe?
This pioneer of feminist art shocked audiences with her Dinner Party installation that critiqued and highlighted the practice of omitting woman from historical record in all aspects of society.
Who is Judy Chicago?
Abstraction often is said to begin with this artist who wrote on abstraction as the only form of valid art and taught that abstraction and music are aligned and should be depicted as such.
Who is Kandinsky?
Who is Botticelli?
This contemporary of Warhol and Basquiat, also known for his street art style frequently eployed his signature animated images in murals, street walls, and to today remains iconically his.
Who is Keith Haring?
Known for his expressive and color-wheeled irises and sunflowers, this artist is known for his highly emotional depiction of nature that would mirror his inner world.
Who is Van Gogh?
Wife of Jackson Pollock who in her own right was a renowned abstract artist herself who experimented with collaging.
Who is Lee Krasner?
This member of the New York School, is known for his performative "drip paintings".
Who is Jackson Pollock?
This later Renaissance artist's opus magnum (greatest work) is the encyclopedic gathering of philosophers througout history depicted in classical architecture called The School of Athens
Who is Rafael?
This is an anonymous group of feminist, female artists devoted to fighting sexism and racism within the art world. The group formed in New York City in 1985 with the mission of bringing gender and racial inequality into focus within the greater arts community.
Who are The Guerilla Girls?
This "Wild Beast" or (fauves) artist is best known for his childlike depictions of flowers.
Who is Matisse?
This feminist artista mexicana, known for her expressionism and surrealism but famously for her faithful depictions of herself, often embracing her bushy eyebrows.
Who is Frida Kahlo?
A major contributor to the abstract movement, this artist's ethereal color fields were pioneer works in the color field genre.
Who is Helen Frankenthaler?
This early Norther Renaissance artist hails from the Netherlands and whose notable works include The Ghent Altarpiece and The Arnolfini Portrait
Who is Jan Van Eyck?
Claes Oldenburg is a Swedish-born American sculptor, best known for his public art installations typically featuring large replicas of everyday objects such as stamps, food, broom/dust pan, etc.
Who is Claes Oldenburg?
In art history, depictions of wilting flowers often symbolize what event in life?
What is death?
This Japanese multimedia artist, singer, songwriter and peace activist's work encompasses performance art, which she performs in both English and Japanese, and filmmaking. She is also the dowager of John Lennon.
Who is Yoko Ono?
This Ethiopian-American contemporary visual artist is known for her multi-layered paintings of abstracted landscapes on a large scale. Her paintings, drawings, and prints depict the cumulative effects of urban sociopolitical changes.
Who is Julie Mehretu?