Famous Painters
George Condo is a well-known painter in the art world, but is more popularly known as the painter behind the album covers “My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy” and “Power” by this famous musician.
Kanye West
He was nearly blind when he painted his series of Water Lilies
Monet
This Mexican painter began creating her many self-portraits after surviving a severe bus accident at the age of 18.
Frida Khalo
The first line of this artist’s book on teaching is “An active line on a walk, moving freely, without goal” and he was also the inspiration for today’s homework assignment about transparent layers.
Paul Klee
This tool is used for applying paint to a surface
Brush
This 70s folk/pop musician painted the covers for 12 out of 19 of her studio recordings and recently removed her entire catalog of music off Spotify in a vaxxing-information controversy.
Joni Mitchell
This word for an artwork made of 3 panels comes from the Greek for three tablets
Triptych
This English painter is especially known for his many representations of swimming pools.
David Hockney
This Russian painter wrote “Concerning the Spiritual in Art” and questioned the relationship of primary colors and shapes to each other during his time teaching at the Bauhaus school.
Wassily Kandinsky
This kind of paint is a much newer invention than oil or watercolour
Acrylic
This ex-president is now painting portraits of fallen soldiers, including some that died in the disastrous middle-east wars that he started.
George W. Bush
In 2015 after 10 years of study a French scientist said he found a hidden portrait beneath this Leonardo portrait
The Mona Lisa
This painter’s whose career initially began as street art in New York City became one of the youngest artists to participate in the Whitney Biennale at the age of 22.
Jean-Michel Basquiat
Studio art can be a somewhat subjective experience to grade, however, these attributes in a student easily be measured and graded.
Any two: attendance, punctuality, class participation, turning work in on time, following the basic structure of the assignment, producing work to the best of one’s ability, participating in class discussions.
As Leslie says, painting is essentially the study of light and this
Colour
This wanna-be painter was rejected twice by the Vienna Academy of Arts and tried to make a living as a watercolour painter for a year before taking an interest in politics, becoming a famous dictator, and categorizing paintings he didn’t like as “degenerate art”.
Adolph Hitler
Italian for fresh this type of wall painting has paint fusing with plaster
Fresco
This painter heavily contributed to the genre of colour field painting, explored through his many iterations of rectangular colour forms.
Mark Rothko
There is no colour without this form of energy.
Light
This style of art does not represent objects
Abstract
This famous Mexican couple painted and lived in two separated houses connected by a bridge in Mexico City.
Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera
Dots of colour are applied on the canvas so that they fuse at a distance in the viewer's eye in this technique
Pointillism
This abstract expressionist is known for pioneering the technique of staining thinned down paint on unprimed supports, seen here in this painting, Mountains and Sea from 1952.
Helen Frankenthaler
Broken glass, razor blades, toxic chemicals, flammable solvent and oily rags are these.
the hazards of our Intro to Oil painting class
This fabric began being used in the 14th century and is now the most commonly used for painting on
Canvas