This document provides short summaries of several famous artists from different eras:
- It mentions Italian Renaissance painter and polymath Leonardo da Vinci.
- It notes Spanish painter Diego Vel│zquez who was a leading artist for King Philip IV.
- It references French Post-Impressionist Paul C└zanne who influenced Cubism and 20th century art.
4. was a Spanish painter who was the leading artist in the court of King Philip
IV and one of the most important painters of the Spanish Golden Age.
5. a French artist and Post-Impressionist painter. Endeavour to a new and
radically different world of art to the 20th century.
Cubism. Both Matisse
and Picasso are said to
have remarked that
C└zanne "is the father of
us all."
7. a far-reaching influence on 20th-century art.
Its rough beauty, emotional honesty, and bold color.
8. Built upon some of the main tenets of late 19th-century Symbolism and
greatly influenced German Expressionism in the early 20th century.
9. was an influential Russian painter and art theorist.
He is credited with painting one of the first purely abstract works.
12. known for his use of colour and his fluid and original draughtsmanship. A as
one of the three artists who helped to define the revolutionary developments
in the plastic arts in the opening of the twentieth century.
15. As one of the greatest and most influential artists of the 20th century, he is
known for co-founding the Cubist movement, the invention of constructed
sculpture.
17. O'Keeffe has been recognized as the Mother of AShe made large-format
paintings of enlarged blossoms;
has been recognized as the Mother of American Modernism.
18. was a leading figure in the visual art movement known as pop art. Warhol's
art used many types of media, including hand drawing, painting,
printmaking, photography, silk screening, sculpture, film, and music.