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Andy Warhol (1928-1987)

American

visual artist, film director and producer

leading figure in the pop art movement

one the most important artists of the second half of the 20th century

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Campbell's Soup Cans

1962, Andy Warhol

<p>1962, Andy Warhol</p>
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Marilyn Diptych

Andy Warhol, 1962

<p>Andy Warhol, 1962</p>
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Electric Chair

Andy Warhol, 1964

<p>Andy Warhol, 1964</p>
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Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519)

an Italian polymath of the High Renaissance who was active as a painter, engineer, scientist, theorist, sculptor, and architect

leading genius of the Renaissance

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Mona Lisa

Da Vinci, 1503

<p>Da Vinci, 1503</p>
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The Last Supper

Da Vinci, 1495-1498

<p>Da Vinci, 1495-1498</p>
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The Lady with an Ermine

Da Vinci, 1489-91

<p>Da Vinci, 1489-91</p>
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Michelangelo (1475-1564)

Italian sculptor, painter, poet, engineer, and architect.

a painter (the Sistine Chapel ceiling)

a sculptor (the David and Pietà)

an architect (St. Peter's Basilica in Rome)

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Sistine Chapel ceiling

Michelangelo, 1508-1512

<p>Michelangelo, 1508-1512</p>
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David

Michelangelo, 1501-1504

<p>Michelangelo, 1501-1504</p>
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The Last Judgement

Michelangelo, 1536-1541

<p>Michelangelo, 1536-1541</p>
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The Creation of Adam

Michelangelo, 1508-1512

<p>Michelangelo, 1508-1512</p>
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Rembrandt (1606-1669)

Dutch Golden Age painter

painted portraits of wealthy middle-class merchants

used sharp contrasts of light and shadow to draw attention to his focus

generally considered one of the greatest visual artists in the history of Western art

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The Night Watch

Rembrandt, 1642

<p>Rembrandt, 1642</p>
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The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Nicolaes Tulp

Rembrandt, 1632

<p>Rembrandt, 1632</p>
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The Storm on the Sea of Galilee

Rembrandt, 1633

<p>Rembrandt, 1633</p>
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Danaë

Rembrandt, 1636

<p>Rembrandt, 1636</p>
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Johannes Vermeer (1632-1675)

Dutch Baroque painter who specialised in domestic interior scenes of middle-class life. He is considered one of the greatest painters of the Dutch Golden Age

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Girl with a Pearl Earring

Vermeer, 1665

<p>Vermeer, 1665</p>
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The Milkmaid

Vermeer, 1658

<p>Vermeer, 1658</p>
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The Art of Painting

Vermeer, 1666

<p>Vermeer, 1666</p>
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View of Delft

Vermeer, 1660

<p>Vermeer, 1660</p>
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Eugene Delacroix (1798-1863)

a French Romantic artist who was regarded as the leader of the French Romantic school

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Liberty Leading the People

Delacroix, 1830

<p>Delacroix, 1830</p>
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Orphan Girl at the Cemetery

Delacroix, 1823-1824

<p>Delacroix, 1823-1824</p>
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The Death Of Sardanapalus

Delacroix, 1827

<p>Delacroix, 1827</p>
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Claude Monet (1840-1926)

a French painter and founder of Impressionism painting who is seen as a key precursor to modernism, especially in his attempts to paint nature as he perceived it

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<p>Poppies</p>

Poppies

Monet, 1873

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<p>The Water Lily Pond</p>

The Water Lily Pond

Monet, 1899

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Impression, Sunrise

Monet, 1872

<p>Monet, 1872</p>
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Woman with a Parasol - Madame Monet and Her Son

Monet, 1875

<p>Monet, 1875</p>
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Georges Seurat (1859-1891)

a French post-Impressionist artist. He devised the painting techniques known as chromoluminarism and pointillism and used conté crayon for drawings on paper with a rough surface

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A Sunday on La Grande Jatte

Seurat, 1884-1886

<p>Seurat, 1884-1886</p>
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Bathers at Asnières

Seurat, 1884

<p>Seurat, 1884</p>
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The Models

Seurat, 1886-88

<p>Seurat, 1886-88</p>
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Young Woman Powdering Herself

Seurat, 1888-1890

<p>Seurat, 1888-1890</p>
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Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890)

a Dutch Post-Impressionist painter who is among the most famous and influential figures in the history of Western art

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Starry Night

Van Gogh, 1899

<p>Van Gogh, 1899</p>
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Sunflowers

Van Gogh, 1888-1899

<p>Van Gogh, 1888-1899</p>
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The Potato Eaters

Van Gogh, 1885

<p>Van Gogh, 1885</p>
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The Bedroom in Arles

Van Gogh, 1888

<p>Van Gogh, 1888</p>
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Café Terrace at Night

Van Gogh, 1888

<p>Van Gogh, 1888</p>
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Edvard Munch (1863-1944)

a Norwegian painter. His 1893 work The Scream has become one of Western art's most acclaimed images. His childhood was overshadowed by illness, bereavement and the dread of inheriting a mental condition that ran in the family

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The Scream

Munch, 1893

<p>Munch, 1893</p>
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Vampire

Munch, 1895

<p>Munch, 1895</p>
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Puberty

Munch, 1895

<p>Munch, 1895</p>
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Anxiety

Munch, 1894

<p>Munch, 1894</p>
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Self-Portrait with Cigarette

Munch, 1895

<p>Munch, 1895</p>
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Egon Schiele (1890-1918)

an Austrian Expressionist painter. His work is noted for its intensity and its raw sexuality, and for the many self-portraits the artist produced, including nude self-portraits

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Self-Portrait with Chinese Lantern Plant

Schiele, 1912

<p>Schiele, 1912</p>
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Seated Male Nude

Schiele, 1910

<p>Schiele, 1910</p>
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Self-Portrait With Striped Shirt

Schiele, 1910

<p>Schiele, 1910</p>
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Portrait of Wally

Schiele, 1912

<p>Schiele, 1912</p>
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Gustav Klimt (1862-1918)

an Austrian symbolist painter and one of the most prominent members of the Vienna Secession movement.

Noted for his paintings, murals, sketches, and other objets d'art. His primary subject was the female body, and his works are marked by a frank eroticism.

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The Kiss

Klimt, 1907-1908

<p>Klimt, 1907-1908</p>
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Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I

Klimt, 1903-1907

<p>Klimt, 1903-1907</p>
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Judith and the Head of Holofernes

Klimt, 1901

<p>Klimt, 1901</p>
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Pablo Picasso (1881-1973)

a Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, and theatre designer who spent most of his adult life in France

- developed a style called cubism

- emphasis on planes and surfaces converted people into bizarre, inhuman, almost unrecognisable forms

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Guernica

Picasso, 1937

<p>Picasso, 1937</p>
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The Old Guitarist

Picasso, 1904

<p>Picasso, 1904</p>
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The Weeping Woman

Picasso, 1937

<p>Picasso, 1937</p>
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Child with a Dove

Picasso, 1901

<p>Picasso, 1901</p>
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Acrobat and Young Harlequin

Picasso, 1905

<p>Picasso, 1905</p>
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Anthony van Dyck

a Flemish Baroque artist who became the leading court painter in England after success in the Spanish Netherlands and Italy. The seventh child of Frans van Dyck, a wealthy silk merchant in Antwerp, Anthony painted from an early age.

Known for:

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Self-Portrait with a Sunflower

van Dyck, 1632–33

<p>van Dyck, <span>1632–33</span></p>
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Equestrian Portrait of Charles I

van Dyck, 1632

<p>van Dyck, 1632</p>
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Samson and Delilah

van Dyck, 1630

<p>van Dyck, 1630</p>
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Sofonisba Anguissola (1532-1625)

an Italian artist who was the first female artist of the Renaissance to achieve international fame during her lifetime. She had the ability to create life-like, sophisticated portraits that were intellectually engaging and flattering at the same time. She used self-portraits to promote and define herself, and she then turned this skill toward creating official portraits of the Spanish royal house that advertised their ability to rule.

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Self-portrait at an Easel

Anguissola, 1556-1565

<p><span>Anguissola, 1556-1565</span></p>
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The Game of Chess

Anguissola, 1555

<p>Anguissola, 1555</p>
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Portrait of Philip II of Spain

Anguissola, 1573

<p>Anguissola, 1573</p>
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Tintoretto (1518-1594)

aka. Jacopo Robusti, was an Italian Renaissance painter of the Venetian school. His contemporaries both admired and criticized the speed with which he painted, and the unprecedented boldness of his brushwork. For his phenomenal energy in painting he was termed il Furioso

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Self-Portrait

Tintoretto, 1546-48

<p>Tintoretto, 1546-48</p>
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The Miracle of the Slave

Tintoretto, 1548

<p>Tintoretto, 1548</p>
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Paradiso

Tintoretto, 1588-92

<p>Tintoretto, 1588-92</p>
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The Origin of the Milky Way

Tintoretto, 1575

<p>Tintoretto, 1575</p>
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Albrecht Dürer (1471-1528)

a German painter, printmaker, and theorist of the German Renaissance, generally regarded as the greatest German Renaissance artist. Born in Nuremberg, Dürer established his reputation and influence across Europe in his twenties due to his high-quality woodcut prints

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Young Hare

Durer, 1502

<p>Durer, 1502</p>
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Praying Hands

Durer, 1508

<p>Durer, 1508</p>
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The Four Horsemen (the "The Apocalypse" series)

Durer, 1497-1498

<p>Durer, 1497-1498</p>
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Self-Portrait (at the Age of Twenty Eight)

Durer, 1500

<p>Durer, 1500</p>

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