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The document discusses four famous artists: 1) Leonardo da Vinci, a Renaissance polymath from Italy known for works like the Mona Lisa and The Last Supper. 2) Vincent van Gogh, a Postimpressionist painter from the Netherlands known for his expressive use of color and emotionally dark paintings. 3) Pablo Picasso, a pioneer of Cubism from Spain who painted in many styles including Cubism, Expressionism, and periods influenced by color. 4) Andy Warhol, an American pop artist known for works depicting popular culture in a detached style.
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- 2. How much doyou really know about the different famous artists?
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- 4. Leonardo da Vinciwas born more than 500 years ago (1452) in a town called Vinci in Italy.
- 5. He was ascientist, an inventor, an architect, a musician, a sculptor, a mathematician and also a fantastic artist. He was curious about everything!
- 6. Mona Lisa Painted in1962 it was valued 100 million dollars! Imagine what it is worth now! It now hangs in the Louvre in Paris.
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- 8. DaVinci's paintings weredone in the
- 9. Vincent van Gogh Vincent vanGogh was born more than 150 years (1853) ago in Zundert, Netherlands (Dutch)
- 10. He worked atmany jobs, such as in an art gallery, a school, a bookstore, as a preacher, and at last, he became an artist.
- 11. He didn't havea very happy life. He painted sad paintings with poor people in them. His paintings were always very dark until he saw some colorful Japanese paintings.
- 12. Most of hiswork was in the Postimpressionist style.
- 15. Pablo Picasso Pablo Picasso was born more than 120 years ago (1881) in Malaga, Spain.
- 16. Picasso painted inmany styles, including Cubism and Expressionism
- 18. The Blue Period sad looking paintings using blue and blue-green colors.
- 19. The Rose The Cubism Period Period a more happy style with orange and pink colours. The African-influenced Period
- 20. Andy Warhol Andy Warhol was anAmerican artist who was a leading figure in the visual art movement known as pop art.
- 23. When he graduatedfrom school he went to New York City for a job. He got jobs doing magazine illustrations, decorating department store windows, greeting cards, record albums, book covers, and suns, clouds, and raindrops for television weather reports. He still was not satisfied because he was not famous.
- 24. Name the fourartists?
- 25. Which famous artisthad… The realist style? The postimpressionist style? Many styles, including cubism and expressionism? Pop art?
Editor's Notes
- #4 - that's how they named people back then!
- #5 He lived in a time which was called the Renaissance which was a time when everyone was interested in art and doing great things.
- #6 Leonardo was very good at lots of things (in fact he was a genius). Even though Da Vinci was a great artist, he became famous because of all the other things he could do.