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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 do you really know about the different famous artists?
- 4. Leonardo da Vinci was born more than 500 years ago (1452) in a town called Vinci in Italy.
- 5. He was a scientist, an inventor, an architect, a musician, a sculptor, a mathematician and also a fantastic artist. He was curious about everything!
- 6. Mona Lisa Painted in 1962 it was valued 100 million dollars! Imagine what it is worth now! It now hangs in the Louvre in Paris.
- 8. DaVinci's paintings were done in the
- 9. Vincent van Gogh Vincent van Gogh was born more than 150 years (1853) ago in Zundert, Netherlands (Dutch)
- 10. He worked at many 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 have a 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 his work was in the Postimpressionist style.
- 15. Pablo Picasso Pablo Picasso was born more than 120 years ago (1881) in Malaga, Spain.
- 16. Picasso painted in many 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 an American artist who was a leading figure in the visual art movement known as pop art.
- 23. When he graduated from 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 four artists?
- 25. Which famous artist had… The realist style? The postimpressionist style? Many styles, including cubism and expressionism? Pop art?
Editor's Notes
- - that's how they named people back then!
- He lived in a time which was called the Renaissance which was a time when everyone was interested in art and doing great things.
- 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.