Final Exam Review on artists

1. Art Final Exam REVIEW
Part 2: Art History
Pinconning High School
Final Exam Review
2020

2. #1 Georgia O'keefe
 American female
watercolorist
 1887- 1985
 Abstract FLOWERS &
skulls

3. Red Canna

4. #2 Frida Kahlo
 Mexican Artist
 1907- 1954
 Married to famous
muralist, Diego Rivera
 Symbolic work to
express her pain

5. #3 Diego Rivera
 Mexican wall muralist
1886- 1957
 Husband to Frida
Kahlo
 Completed Detroit
Industry wall murals at
the Detroit Institute of
Arts

6. #4 Pablo Picasso
 Spanish artist
 Inventor of Cubism
 1881- 1973
 Child prodigy

7. #5 Edvard Munch
1.1863- 1944 from
Norway
2.Expressionist: childhood
was overshadowed by illness,
bereavement and the dread of
inheriting a mental condition
3.The Scream

8. #6 Jackson Pollock
 American Abstract
Expressionist
 Splash/Pour method
with household paint
 1912- 1956

9. #7 Claude Monet
 Impressionism inventor
 Paris, France
 1840- 1926
 Sunrise: Impressionism
 Interested in how
sunlight affected
scenes

10. Sunrise: Impressionism 1872

11. #8 Keith Haring
 1958- 1990
 New York graffiti
artist- subways
 Died of AIDS
 Gesture figure drawing

12. #9 Michelangelo
 Italian High
Renaissance
 Country: Italy
 1475-1564
 Greatest artist that ever
lived?
 Sistine Chapel

13. Sistine Chapel

14. #10 Leonardo da Vinci
 1452- 1519
 Italian High
Renaissance
 Country: Italy
 Mona Lisa
 Last Supper

15. Mona Lisa The Last Supper

16. #11 Vincent van Gogh
 Post-impressionism
 1853- 1890
 From: Holland
 Mentally unstable- cut
off part of his ear, etc.
 Starry Night

17. Starry Night, 1889

18. #12 Jacob Lawrence
 African-American
artist: 1917-2000
 *focused on African-
American civil rights
freedom movement(s):
The Great Migration
 Educated by Harlem
artistic workshops

19. Jacob Lawrence...The Library

20. #13 Norman Rockwell
 American painter and
illustrator
 1894- 1978: reflections
on American culture
 Saturday Evening Post

21. #14 Andy Warhol
 1928- 1987
American Pop Artist
 International celebrity
& pop culture icon
...took mass produced
products & turned them
into art
 Artist & film maker

23. #15 Tyree Guyton
 1955- ALIVE!
 Detroit, MI African-
American urban
environmentalist
 Heidelberg project:
transformed
neighborhood into
outdoor art gallery by
painting abandoned
homes

24. #15 Chuck Close
 1940- ALIVE!
 American artist who
takes massive-scale
photorealist portraits
using grid method
(squares or diamonds)

25. #15 Yayoi Kusama
 1929- ALIVE!
 Japanese contemporary
artist
 Installations – polka
dot artist

26. #15 Jeff Koons
 1955- ALIVE!
 NYC American Pop
artist
 Balloon animals

27. #15 Kara Walker
 American silhouettist
installation artist
 1969- ALIVE!
 Explores race, gender
identity, violence &
identity

28. #15 Tyree Guyton
 1955- ALIVE
 Detroit, MI urban artist
 Heidleburg project