SCOP Visual Art Review Flashcards

Vocabulary flashcards covering artists, key works, and specific details from SCOP Visual Art Version 3.0.

Donatello

Italian sculptor known for Gattamelata and a bronze statue of biblical David wearing a hat and boots, holding a sword, and standing over the head of Goliath.

Sandro Botticelli

Italian painter of Primavera and The Birth of Venus, which depicts Venus on a seashell, Zephyr, an orange grove, and orange blossoms.

Leonardo da Vinci

Italian Renaissance artist who painted The Last Supper, Vitruvian Man, two versions of The Madonna of the Rocks, and the Mona Lisa (also called La Gioconda) using sfumato technique.

Raphael

Italian Renaissance painter of Madonna of the Goldfinch and The School of Athens, a fresco in the Stanza della Segnatura featuring Plato, Aristotle, and Diogenes.

Michelangelo

Italian artist who sculpted a marble contrapposto David with a slingshot, Pietà (young Mary holding Jesus, his only signed work), the tomb of Pope Julius II (featuring Moses with horns), and painted the Sistine Chapel ceiling and walls.

Caravaggio

Italian painter known for the artwork The Calling of St Matthew.

Gilbert Stuart

American artist famous for creating The Athenaeum, a portrait of George Washington.

Thomas Cole

American Hudson River School landscape artist who painted The Oxbow and The Course of Empire.

Winslow Homer

American painter known for creating The Gulf Stream.

James Whistler

American artist who painted Arrangement in Grey and Black No. 1 (nicknamed Whistler's Mother) and Nocturne in Black and Gold (nicknamed The Falling Rocket).

Mary Cassatt

American Impressionist artist who painted The Boating Party and The Child's Bath.

Edward Hopper

American artist who painted Chop Suey, Automat, Early Sunday Morning, and Nighthawks, which features two men and a woman in a diner at night under an advertisement for five cent Phillies cigars.

Grant Wood

American painter of Parson Weem's Fable and American Gothic, depicting a man and woman in front of a farmhouse with a gothic window.

Alexander Calder

American artist known for creating mobiles, including Lobster Trap and Fish Tail.

Georgia O'Keeffe

American artist married to photographer Alfred Stieglitz, known for paintings of flowers, animal skulls, and New Mexico scenery, such as Cow Skull: Red, White, and Blue.

Norman Rockwell

American illustrator known for Saturday Evening Post covers and The Four Freedoms series, which includes Freedom from Want, Freedom of Speech, Freedom of Worship, and Freedom from Fear.

Jackson Pollock

American Abstract Expressionist painter nicknamed "Jack the Dripper".

Andy Warhol

American Pop artist who created Campbell's Soup Cans and worked out of a studio nicknamed "The Factory".

Roy Lichtenstein

American artist who created comic book style paintings such as Whaam! and Drowning Girl, frequently using Ben-Day dots.

Jacques-Louis David

French painter of The Death of Marat, The Oath of the Horatii, and The Tennis Court Oath.

Théodore Géricault

French artist who painted The Raft of the Medusa.

Eugène Delacroix

French artist who painted Liberty Leading the People.

Édouard Manet

French painter of Olympia and Luncheon on the Grass, which shows two clothed men with a nude woman and a bather.

Paul Gauguin

French artist who worked in Tahiti, was a friend of Vincent van Gogh, and painted The Yellow Christ.

Edgar Degas

French artist known for paintings of ballet dancers, the sculpture Little Dancer of Fourteen Years, and L'Absinthe (also called The Absinthe Drinker).

Auguste Rodin

French sculptor of bronze works including The Burghers of Calais, The Age of Bronze, and the series The Gates of Hell, which includes The Thinker and The Kiss.

Pierre-Auguste Renoir

French artist who painted Luncheon of the Boating Party.

Georges Seurat

French artist who painted Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte using pointillism with dabs of color instead of brushstrokes.

Claude Monet

French painter who named the Impressionist movement with Impression: Sunrise, created outdoor en plein air works like Rouen Cathedral, and painted series such as Water Lilies, Houses of Parliament, and Haystacks.

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

French artist known for his paintings of dancers at the Moulin Rouge.

Marcel Duchamp

French artist who created Nude Descending a Staircase, L.H.O.O.Q., and Fountain, a "readymade" constructed from a urinal lying on its side.

René Magritte

French-speaking surrealist artist who created The Son of Man, The Treachery of Images (captioned "ceci n'est pas une pipe"), and Time Transfixed.

Diego Velázquez

Spanish artist who painted Las Meninas (also called The Maids of Honor or The Ladies in Waiting), depicting attendants of Infanta Margarita.

Francisco Goya

Spanish painter of The Third of May, 1808 and Saturn Devouring His Son (one of his "Black Paintings").

Pablo Picasso

Spanish Cubist artist with "Blue" and "Rose" periods, who painted Guernica (depicting wartime destruction in black and white) and Les Demoiselles d'Avignon.

Salvador Dalí

Spanish Surrealist artist who painted The Persistence of Memory, featuring soft clocks draped over a bizarre landscape.

Jan van Eyck

Dutch and Flemish artist who painted The Arnolfini Portrait (also called The Arnolfini Wedding or Giovanni Arnolfini and his Bride).

Rembrandt

Dutch painter of The Anatomy Lesson of Dr Nicolaes Tulp and The Night Watch (also called The Shooting Company of Frans Banning Cocq).

Johannes Vermeer

Dutch painter of The Milkmaid, The Astronomer, and Girl with a Pearl Earring (a study of a girl in a blue and yellow turban).

Vincent van Gogh

Dutch Post-Impressionist painter of Sunflowers, The Potato Eaters, Bedroom in Arles, The Night Café, Self-Portrait with Bandaged Ear, and Starry Night.

Alexandros of Antioch

Greek sculptor of Venus de Milo (also called Aphrodite of Milos).

El Greco

Greek-Spanish artist (Doménikos Theotokópoulos) who painted View of Toledo and The Burial of the Count of Orgaz.

John Constable

English landscape painter known for The Hay Wain.

Hokusai

Japanese artist who created the ukiyo-e print The Great Wave off Kanagawa, part of Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji.

JMW Turner

English painter of Rain, Steam, and Speed and The Slave Ship.

Edvard Munch

Norwegian artist who created Death in the Sickroom, Vampire, and The Scream as part of his series The Frieze of Life.

Diego Rivera

Mexican muralist who created Detroit Industry and Man at the Crossroads; husband of Frida Kahlo.

Frida Kahlo

Mexican artist known for self-portraits; wife of Diego Rivera.

Marc Chagall

Russian-French painter of The White Crucifixion and I and the Village, which shows a green-faced man looking at sheep.