Famous Paintings and Artists

Paul Klee

famous for his whimsical, colorful images; works include The Twittering Machine, Viaducts Break Rank, Fish Magic, and Head of a Man (Going Senile).

Jacques-Louis David "DA-VEED"

Napoleon Crossing the Alps Oath of the Horatii

Marcel Duchamp

Nude Descending a Staircase Fountain (urinal) Bicycle Wheel L.H.O.O.Q. (Mona Lisa with mustache)

Fairey

Obama campaign poster

Cellini

Perseus with the Head of Medusa Salt Cellar (Neptune with Ceres)

William Henry Jackson

Photographs helped convince Congress to make Yellowstone a National Park. Photographed the Mount of the Holy Cross

Juan Gris

Portrait of Picasso

David Siqueiros

Portrait of a Dead Child, América Tropical: Oprimida y Destrozada por los Imperialismos, Birth of Fascism, Collective Suicide, Echo of a Scream, Portrait of the Bourgeoisie, For the Complete Safety of All Mexicans at Work, Struggle for Emancipation, Ejercicio Plastico

Whistler

Portrait of the Artist's Mother

Paul Gaugin

Post-Impressionist The Yellow Christ Where do we come from? What are we? Where are we going? Two Tahitian Women Spirit of the Dead Watching By the Sea

Paul Cezanne

Pre-cursor to Cubism The Bathers The Card Players Still Life with a Peppermint Bottle Mount Sainte-Victoire series The Basket of Apples The House with Burst Walls

Matisse

Red Room The Red Studio The Dance

Raphael

School of Athens Saint George and the Dragon La Donna Velata (The woman with the veil) The Triumph of Galatea La belle jardinière (Madonna and Child with Saint John the Baptist) Transfiguration Sistine Madonna

Joan Miro

Spanish surrealist painter The Tilled Field Carnival of Harliquen Still Life With Old Shoe

Matthew Brady

photographs the Civil War (first war ever recorded) Father of photojournalism

Roy Lichenstein

pop artist who uses comics; creator of benday dots

Jeff Koons

sculptor and painter, makes replicas of objects and images selected from popular visual culture, pop-art, contemporary artist, balloon sculptures (1980s-present day)

Albercht Dürer

St. Jerome in His Study, Melencolia I, Dürer's Rhinoceros, Self-Portrait at the Age of Twenty Eight, Adam and Eve, Knight, Death and the Devil, Young Hare, Feast of the Rosary, Apocalypse, The Four Apostles, Self-Portrait at 26, Praying Hands, Adoration of the Trinity, Adoration of the Magi, Christ Among the Doctors, Portrait of Dürer's Father at 70, Great Piece of Turf, Martyrdom of the Ten Thousand, Portrait of a Young Venetian Woman, Paumgartner Altarpiece, The Sea Monster, Dresden Altarpiece, Portrait of Hieronymus Holzschuher, Self-Portrait at the Age of 13, St.Jerome in the Wilderness, Portrait of Oswolt Krel, Haller Madonna, Heller Altar, Potrait of Emperor Maximilian I, Triumphal Arch, Portrait of the Artist Holding a Thistle, Wing of a European Roller, The Four Witches, Portrait of Jakob Muffel, Portrait of the Artist's Mother at the Age of 63, Lamentation for Christ, Jabach Altarpiece, Little Passion, Seven Sorrows Polyptych, Portrait of Jakob Fugger, Portrait of Frederick III of Saxony, Large Triumphal Carriage, The Suicide of Lucretia, Madonna of the Pear, Joachim and Anne Meeting at the Golden Gate, Lamentation of Christ, Nemesis

Ernie Barnes

Sugar Shack

Toulouse-Lautrec

At the Moulin Rouge

Henry Moore

British sculptor famous for using holes in his art

Mondrian

Broadway Boogie Woogie, Composition II in Red, Blue, and Yellow, Composition with Red, Yellow, and Blue, Gray Tree, Composition A, Victory Boogie-Woogie, Avond (Evening): The Red Tree, Composition with Large Blue Plane, Red, Black, Yellow, and Gray, Composition in Oval with Color Planes 1, Tableau I, Still Life with Gingerpot II, Still Life with Gingerpot I, Composition in White, Black, and Red, Windmill in Sunlight, Woods Near Oele, View From the Dunes with Beach and Piers, Domberg ,Tableau I: Lozenge with Four Lines and Gray, The Red Mill, Composition No.10, Composition XIV, View of Winterswijk, Farm Near Duivendrecht, Devotion, Composition in Color A, and Windmill in the Gein

Joseph Turner

Burial at Sea Rain, Steam, and Speed The Slave Ship

Vincent Van Gogh

Cafe Terrace at Night and The Potato Eaters

Jose Orozco

Dive Bomber and Tank, Man of Fire, Gods of the Modern World, Sleeping (The Family), The Subway, Ceiling of Colegio de San Ildefonso, Revolutionaries of the March

C.M. Coolidge

Dogs Playing Poker

Banksy

English graffiti artist, political activist, film director and painter, street art combine dark humor and distinctive stenciling techniques Child Frisks a Soldier

Muybridge

English photographer important for his pioneering work in photographic studies of motion, and early work in motion-picture projection Discovered all four hooves were on the ground in Sallie Gardner at a Gallop"

Camille Pissaro

Father of impressionism The Boulevard Montmartre on a Winter Morning The Boulevard Montmartre at Night Hay Harvest at Eragny St. Thomas Island Place du Theatre Francais

Jasper Johns

Flag, White Flag, and Three Flags were painted by this pop artist

Wassily Kandinsky

Founder of the Nonobjective Art movement whose main goal was to convey moods and feelings. Improvisation 28 Blue Mountain Study for Composition 2 Black lines No 189 Autumn In Bavaria

Jean Arp

German-French dadaist Collage with Squares Birds in an Aquarium Shirt Front and Fork

Jan Van Eyck "Von Ike"

Giovanni Arnolfini and his Wife

Marc Chagall "Sha-gall"

I and the Village

Bernini

Italian sculptor Made his own rendetion of David Apollo and Daphne Ecstasy of St. Theresa

Donatello

Italian sculptor renowned as a pioneer of the Renaissance style with his natural, lifelike figures, such as the bronze statue David. Mary Magdalene St George and St Mark sculptures

Mark Rothko

Known for color-field painting. Come Alive (yellow/orange box) Green on Blue No. 16 (Red, Black, and Brown)

Seurat "Sue-rah"

La Grande Jatte

Peter Bruegel "Brew-gale"

Landscape with the Fall of Icarus

Holbein

The Ambassadors

Rembrandt

The Anatomy Lesson of Dr.Nicolaes Tulp, The Sampling Officials, The Conspiracy of Claudius Civilis, The Return of the Prodigal Son, The Jewish Bride, Syndics of the Drapers' Guild, Aristotle with a Bust of Homer, Belshazzar's Feast, The Blinding of Samson, Head of Christ, The Artist in His Studio, The Storm on the Sea of Galilee, Jacob Blessing the Sons of Joseph, The Raising of Lazarus, Bathsheba at Her Bath, The Polish Rider, The Stoning of Saint Stephen, Self-Portrait with Two Circles, The Mill, The Woman Taken in Adultery, The Prodigal Son in the Brothel, The Three Crosses, Self-Portrait as Zeuxis Laughing, Philosopher in Meditation, Jan Six, Hundred Guilder Print, Balaam and the Ass, Diana Bathing with Her Nymphs with Actaeon and Callisto, Susanna and the Elders, The Baptisim of the Eunuch, Landscape with a Stone Bridge, Jeremiah Lamenting the Destruction of Jerusalem, Self-Portrait with Beret and Turned-Up Collar, Joseph and Potiphar's Wife, Self-Portrait as the Apostle Paul, History Painting, Sef-Portrait at the Age of 63, Old Man with a Gold Chain, The Kitchen Maid, The Abduction of Europa, Pendant Portraits of Maerten Soolmans and Oopjen Coppit, Holy Family, Portrait of Nicolaes Ruts, Lucretia, Artemisia, Flora, Tobit and Anna with the Kid, The Descent from the Cross, The Denial of Saint Peter, and The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Deigman

Titian "tish-un"

The Assumption of the Virgin Venus of Urbino

Caravaggio

The Conversion of St. Paul David and Goliath Bacchus

Benjamin West

The Death of General Wolfe Painting of Franklin flying kite

Jean-Antoine Watteau

The Embarkation of Cythera, L'Enseigne de Gersaint, Pierrot, The Country Dance, Les Plaisirs du Bal, Mezzetin, The Casual Lover, Jupiter and Antiope, Savoyard with a Marmot, Perfect Harmony, Cupid Disarmed, Les Deux Cousines, Pastoral Leisure

Diego Rivera

The Flower Carrier

Bosch

The Garden of Earthly Delights

Degas "Day-gah"

The Glass of Absinthe Musicians in the Orchestra Rehearsal of the Ballet on Stage Anything with ballerinas!

Hokusai

The Great Wave 36 Views- Mount Fuji

Eakins

The Gross Clinic The Swimming Hole

John Constable

The Hay Wain

Magritte "Mah-greet"

The Human Condition and "The False Mirror"

Leonardo da Vinci

The Last Supper

Edvard Ericson

The Little Mermaid

Henri Rousseau "Roo-so"

The Sleeping Gypsy

Jean Honoré Fragonard

The Swing, A Young Girl Reading, The Stolen Kiss, The Musical Contest, Blind Man's Bluff, The Lock, Psyche Showing Her Sisters Her Gifts From Cupid, The Happy Lovers, The Fountain of Love, Portrait of Denis Diderot, The Souvenir, The Adoration of the Shepherds, The Progress of Love The Pursuit, The Shirt Withdrawn, The Confession of Love

Da Vinci

The Virgin on the Rocks

Da Vinci

The Vitruvian Man

Alexander Calder

United States sculptor who first created mobiles (1898-1976)

Titian

Venus of Urbino Death of St. Peter The Pastoral Cocert Assumption of the Virgin

Rococo

Very elaborate and ornate (in decorating or metaphorically, as in speech and writing); relating to a highly ornate style of art and architecture in 18th-century France

Leutze "loit-suh"

Washington Crossing the Delaware

Delacroix "Day-la-kroy"

Liberty Leading the People, The Death of Sardanapalus, The Massacre at Chios, Women of Algiers, The Barque of Dante, Greece on the Ruins of Missolonghi, Entry of the Crusaders in Constantinople, Mademoiselle Rose, Horse Frightened by Lightning, Lion Hunt, Medea (Louvre), The Lion Hunt, The Abduction of Rebecca, A Young Tiger Playing With Its Mother, Fanatics of Tangier, Jewish Wedding in Morocco, Arab Horseman Attacked by a Lion, Arabs Skirmishing in the Mountains, Christ on the Sea of Galilee, Macbeth and the Witches, The Shipwreck of Don Juan, Last Words of the Emperor Marcus Aurelius, The Battle of Nancy, Hamlet and Horatio in the Cemetery, Turk Sitting Smoking on a Couch,

Renoir

Luncheon of the Boating Party Le Moulin de la Galette The Seine at Chatou Dance at Bougival Two Girls at the Piano

Manet

Luncheon on the Grass A Bar at Folies-Bergere The Fifer Boating

Joseph Singer Sargent

Madame X

Cimabue/Cenni de Pepo

Majestas Mariae

Frido Kahlo

Mexican painter; self-portraits

Claude Monet

Water Lilies, Sunrise, Japanese Bridge

Joaquin Sorolla

What Spanish painter is famous for Children by the Seashore, Sad Inheritance, and Castilla?

George Catlin

What created an Indian Gallery Collection (lived with and painted Native Americans)?

Andrew Wyeth "Why-eth"

What painted Christina's World?

Keith Haring

Which artist devoted much of his time to public works, which often carried social messages? One of his most famous murals is the Crack is Wack mural that has become a landmark along New York's FDR Drive.

Salvador Dali

Who created The Persistence of Memory?

Michelangelo

Who created The Pieta?

Rodin

Who created The Thinker?

Andy Warhol

Who created pop art using repetitive icons?

Bartholdi

Who created the Statue of Liberty? (Liberty Enlightening the World)

Borglum

Who designed Mt. Rushmore?

Daniel Chester French

Who designed the Lincoln statue?

Grant Wood

Who painted American Gothic?

Johannes Vermeer

Who painted Girl with a Pearl Earring?

Pablo Picasso

Who painted Guernica? The Old Guitarist, Girl Before a Mirror Les Demoiselles d'Avignon Blue Nude, Family of Saltimbanques, Still Life with Chair Caning The Weeping Woman, La Vie, Chicago Picasso, Jacqueline, Sylvette, Massacre in Korea, The Three Dancers, Nude, Green Leaves and Bust, Dora Maar au Chat, Boy Leading a Horse, Seated Woman, The Charnel House, The Tragedy, Science and Charity, Ma Jolie, First Communion, Tete de Femme (Dora Maar), Portrait of Gertrude Stein, Child With a Dove, Maya with Doll, Don Quixote, La Lecture, The Dream and Lie of Franco, Bull's Head, Les Noces de Pierrette, The Frugal Repast, Woman Ironing, The Blue Room, Girl With a Mandolin (Fanny Tellier), Woman in Hat and Fur Collar, Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler, Self-Portrait, The Reservoir, Horta de Ebro, Baboon and Young, Portrait of Suzanna Bloch, Reading the Letter, Minotauromachy, Harlequin, and Celestina Cubism

Vincent van Gogh

Who painted Irises?

Edward Hopper

Who painted Night Hawks? Chop Suey The Swell Automat New York Movie

Jackson Pollock

Who painted Number 31 and is famous for paint splatter art?

Bird in Space

A series of sculptures by Romanian sculptor Constantin Brancusi

Praxiteles

Apollo Sauroctones Aphrodite Of Knidos Hermes and the Infant Dionysus

Leochares

Apollo von Belvedere

Roger Fenton

A pioneering British photographer, one of the first war photographers; he photographed the Crimean war. Most of his images were inoffensive and showed military leaders and soldiers doing the same social activities they might do at home

Georgia O'Keefe

1920's American painter who developed her own style of showing abstract studies of color and light

Louise Bourgeois

A Feminist sculptor who blurred boundaries of visual signs of power Maman

Winslow Homer

A Realist painter known for his seascapes of New England. The Veteran in a New Field Snap the Whip Breezing Up Eagle Head

Sandro Boticelli

Who painted The Birth of Venus and Primavera? Also Adoration of the Magi of 147, Mars and Venus, Fortitude, Madonna of the Magnificat, Madonna of the Pomegrana, Cestello Annunciation, The Mystical Nativity, Pallas and the Centaur, Calumny of Apelles, Madonna and Child, St.Sebastian, Madonna and Child With an Angel, Portrait of a Young Woman, Portrait of a Man with a Medal of Cosimo the Elder, Venus and the Three Graces Presenting Gifts to a Young Woman, Portrait of Giuliano de' Medici, Sant'Ambrogio Altarpiece, Madonna della Loggia, Madonna of the Rose Garden, Temptations of Christ, Last Communion of St Jerome, Lamentation Over the Dead Christ, Madonna of the Book, The Return of Judith to Bethulia, Madonna and Child and Two Angels, Madonna in Glory with Seraphim, Saint Augustine in His Study, Baptism of St.Zenobius, Judith Leaving the Tent of Holofernes, Madonna of the Sea, Holy Trinity, Scene From the Life of Moses, The Virgin and Child Enthroned, Portrait of a Lady Known as Smeralda Brandini, The Trials of Moses, The Story of Virginia, San Barnaba Altarpiece, Virgin and Child with the Infant St.John the Baptist, Lamentation Over the Dead Christ With Saints, The Story of Lucretia, The Story of Nastagio Degli Onesti, Part One, Madonna Adoring the Child with Five Angels, Virgin and Child with an Angel, The Virgin and Child with Two Angels and the Young St. John the Baptist, Three Miracles of Saint Zenobius, Last Miracle and the Death of St. Zenobius, San Marco Altarpiece, and The Abyss of Hell

El Greco

Who painted The Burial of the Count of Orgaz, The Adoration of the Magi, and the Dormition of the Virgin?

Mary Cassatt "Kuh-sot"

Who painted The Child's Bath?

Gustav Klimt

Who painted The Kiss?

Waterhouse

Who painted The Lady of Shallot?

Rembrandt

Who painted The Night Watch? Storm on the Sea of Galilee Bathsheba at Her Bath Danae The Return of the Prodigal Son Jacob Blessing Joseph's Sons

Edvard Munch

Who painted The Scream?

Rene Magritte "Mah-greet"

Who painted The Son of Man?

Vincent van Gogh

Who painted The Starry Night? Bedroom at Arles Self-Portrait with Bandaged Ear Portrait of Dr. Gachet Sunflowers

Francisco Goya

Who painted The Third of May, Saturn Devouring His Son, Charles IV, and La Maja de Nuda?

Leonardo da Vinci

Who painted the Mona Lisa?

Diego Valezquez

Who was famous for painting portraits, especially of Philip IV's family, including Las Meninas? Also painted The Triumph and Surrender of Bacchus.

Gusatve Eiffel

Who was the architect that designed the framework of the Statue of Liberty?

Dadaism

a revolt by certain 20th-century painters and writers in France, Germany, and Switzerland against smugness in traditional art and Western society; their works, illustrating absurdity through paintings of purposeless machines and collages of discarded materials, expressed their cynicism about conventional ideas of form and their rejection of traditional concepts of beauty.