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Examined the mores are activities of the social and economic classes in his moral
William Hogarth
works, which were painted and later engraved.
first internationally recognized artist to depict the American West. His paintings if the
Albert Bierstadt western frontier were bathed in golden light. These images helped strengthened the
appeal of Manifest Destiny.
Arthur Danto laid groundwork for an institutional theory that "Art is determined by the artworld."
, (American Artist) Graffiti Neo-Expressionist artist. The whitney museum of American
Jean-Michel Basquiat
Art held a retrospective of his art in 1992.
American portrait photographer. She photographed John Lennon the day he was
Annie Leiobovitz assassinated, been in several album covers and magazines. Became the first woman
to hold an exhibition at Washington's National Portrait Gallery in 1991.
famous art critic that stated, "criticism should be partisan, passionate, and political;
Charles Baudelaire
written from an exclusive point of view that opens up the widest horizons"
Bill Viola Contemporary Installation artist who uses image projection and videos.
American artist known for her work in the medium of assemblage. She is also a visual
Betye Saar
storyteller and an accomplished printmaker.
English artist, entrepreneur, and art collector. He is one of the Young British Artists,
Damien Hirst
who dominated the art scene in the UK during the 1990s.
an English artist who primarily produces sculptures, which typically take the form of
Rachel Whiteread
casts. She was the first woman to win the annual Turner Prize in 1993.
was a French artist, known for both his use of colour and his fluid and original
Henri Matisse draughtsmanship. He was a draughtsman, printmaker, and sculptor, but is known
primarily as a painter.
a French artist and Post-Impressionist painter whose work laid the foundations of the
Paul Cezanne transition from the 19th-century conception of artistic endeavor to a new and
radically different world of art in the 20th century.
an Austrian symbolist painter and one of the most prominent members of the Vienna
Gustav Klimt Secession movement. Klimt is noted for his paintings, murals, sketches, and other
objets d'art.
English landscape painter who created a poetic sense of changing atmospheric
John Constable
effects by using tiny applications of local color.
a French artist who was a leading painter in the development of the Impressionist
Auguste Renoir
style.
a Russian painter and art theorist. He is credited with painting one of the first
Kandinsky
recognised purely abstract works.
Dutch draughtsman, painter, and printmaker. An innovative and prolific master in
Rembrandt three media, he is generally considered one of the greatest visual artists in the
history of art and the most important in Dutch art history.
a prominent Mexican painter. His large frescoes helped establish the Mexican mural
Diego Rivera
movement in Mexican art.
a French artist famous for his paintings, sculptures, prints, and drawings. He is
Edgar Degas especially identified with the subject of dance; more than half of his works depict
dancers.
a French post-Impressionist artist. Unappreciated until after his death, Gauguin is now
Paul Gauguin recognized for his experimental use of color and Synthetist style that were distinctly
different from Impressionism.
an Italian Renaissance polymath whose areas of interest included invention, painting,
Leonardo da Vinci
sculpting, and architecture.
Michelangelo an Italian sculptor, painter, architect and poet of the High Renaissance.
a Dutch Post-Impressionist painter who is among the most famous and influential
Vincent Van Gogh
figures in the history of Western art.