This document provides brief biographies of 26 influential artists from the Renaissance through modern eras, including Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, Claude Monet, Vincent van Gogh, Pablo Picasso, Andy Warhol and others. It highlights each artist's nationality, key works and artistic styles or movements. Many of the artists struggled with mental health or substance abuse issues in addition to making important contributions to the evolution of art.

2. Michelangelo
Painter and sculptor
Sistine chapel
Obsessed with human
form

3. Leonardo da Vinci
 Italian Renaissance
 Artist, scientist,
inventor
 “The Last Supper”

4. Claude Monet
 French Impressionist
 “Grandfather” of the
Impressionist
movement.
 Obsessed with light

5. Edgar Degas
 Famous for his
paintings of ballet
dancers.
 Possible love affair
with Mary Cassatt

6. Mary Cassatt
 American Impressionist
 One of the few female
artist at the time.
 Famous for painting
mothers with children
 Possible love affair with
Degas

7. Auguste Renoir
 French Impressionist
 Beautiful girls, women,
rich lifestyle
 Continued to paint
despite health issues
later in life.

8. Vincent Van Gogh
 Dutch post-
impressionist
 Mental Issues and
alcohol abuse
 Cut off ear
 Never sold a painting
while alive

9. Paul Gaugin
 French post-
impressionist
 Settled in Tahiti-often
painted the native girls
 Bouts of depression
and alcohol abuse

10. Henri Toulouse-Lautrec
 French
 Very sick as a child-
leads to crippling
 Painted the theatrical
night life of Paris
 Suffered from
alcoholism.

11. Henri Matisse
 French-Fauvist
(Fauve=wild beast)
 Master of bright color
 Paper cut collages in
addition to paintings

12. Jacob Lawrence
 African Artist-closest to
cubism
 Harlem Renaissance
(1920s-1930s)
 African American
experience and history

13. Marc Chagall
 Famous for art and
stained glass work
 Russian who came to
the U.S. after the
Holocaust
 Colorful Cubist with
religious themes

14. Jackson Pollock
 American Abstract
Artist
 Drip method
 Bi-polar and
alcoholism

15. Pablo Picasso
 One of the greatest
influences of 20th
century art.
 Co-founded the cubist
movement
 Notorious womanizer-
painted his wives and
mistresses.

16. Salvador Dali
 Spanish Surrealist
 Dream-like settings
 Eccentric and attention
grabbing behavior.

17. Frida Kahlo
 Mexican artist
 Surrealist elements
 Tragic accident as a
young girl
 Married to artist Diego
Rivera

18. Georgia O’Keeffe
 American Southwest
 Flowers and cow skulls
 Married to Alfred
Stieglitz

19. Diego Rivera
 Mexican Realist and
Muralist
 Politically influenced-
fought for the plight of
Migrant workers
 Married to Frida Kahlo

20. Edward Hopper
 American Realist
 Depressed and lonely
themes
 Alienation portrayed in
art work

21. Norman Rockwell
 Mr. Americana
 Wholesome images of
America and its people
 Saturday Evening Post-
he designed the covers.

22. Andy Warhol
 American Pop Artist
 Inspired by pop culture
and celebrities
 Famous quote-”In the
future, everybody will
be famous for 15
minutes.”

23. Roy Lichenstein
 American pop artist
 Ben-Day dots
 Comic art

24. Hokusai
 Japanese artist and
print maker
 Worked under many
different names
 Created 100s of pieces

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