Bench Artists

Pablo Picasso: This Spanish artist lived in the 20th century. His most notable contribution to art was co-founding the Cubist style.

Jackson Pollock: This 20th century American painter played a major role in the abstract expressionist movement by creating a technique known as Splatter Paint.

Georgia O'Keeffe: A Wisconsin born 20th century artist, O'Keeffe is best known for her large and colorful flower paintings. She is also highly resected for creating a place for women in the modern art world.

Edvard Munch: This was a Norwegian painter who led the expressionist movement. His piece "The Scream" is world renowned.

Bench Artists

Henri Matisse

(31 December 1869 – 3 November 1954)

Henri Matiisse is often associated with fauvism & modern art. He is regarded as one of the leading figures in modern art. Some of his most famous works are his paper cutouts with bright colors and bold shapes.

Piet Mondrian

(March 7, 1872 – February 1, 1944)

Piet Mondrian if famous for his geometric paintings of black lines and colored rectangles on a white background. He is an important contributor to the De Stijl movement or "neoplasticism."

Claude Monet

(14 November 1840 – 5 December 1926)

Claude Monet is one of the most well-known artists of all time. He is an impressionist painter, and is said to be one of the best advocate of true impressionism.

Andy Warhol

(August 6, 1928 – February 22, 1987)

Andy Warhol is most well-known for his pop art; however, he was also a painter, filmmaker, printmaker, and many other things. Among his most famous works is the Campbell's soup can. Warhol is known for defining the world of modern art.

Amedeo Modigliani

(July 12, 1884 – January 24, 1920)

Modigliani was a famous painter of portraits, which were often misshaped and deformed. His expressionistic style was a bit odd and unlike many other artists of his time.

Bench Artist Research

Eric Fischl (March 9th 1948-Present)

Movement: Neoexpressionism

Fischl is considered one of the most important modern artists for his unique consistent style that has influenced the course of modern art since he began painting.

Paul Gaugin (1848-1903)

Movement: Post Impressionism

Gaugin is important because his bold color choice was a direct influence on the style commonly seen in modern art today, as well as his incorporation of meaning into the paintings he created. He inspired primitivism.

Vincent Van Gogh (1853-1890)

Movement: Post Impressionism

Van Gogh is an important artist because his work had a wide impact on 20th century art. He set the stage for conveying raw emotion through artwork.

Keith Haring (1958-1990)

Movement: Graffiti

Haring is an important artist because his work was a direct response to the culture on the streets of New York City, carrying a common message of unity in life throughout his artwork as well. His work spoke to the people.

David Hockney (1937-Present)

Movement: Pop Art

Hockney is important because his work sets out to speak the truth that a photograph no longer can communicate in the modern technological world. This is an important message in our current society. He believes in seeing the world in a different but honest way.

5 Artists

Paul Cézanne: He lived from 1839-1906. He was a post- impressionist artist who decided to create more modern art, transitioning from the styles of the 19th century to the 20th century. His main movements have been known to be impressionism and cubism. He is very important today because he has influenced artists such as Matisse and Picasso.

Marc Chagall: He was born in 1887 and died 1985. He was an early modernist. He has been known to have variety in his work and has created art in every artistic medium.

Salvador Dali: He was alive from 1904 to 1989. He was a Spanish surrealist painter. He is remembered for the bizarre and striking images in his artwork.

Edgar Degas: He was around from 1834 to 1917. He has been remembered for painting, print-making, creating sculptures, and drawing. His work was considered impressionism but he preferred the term realism. He is remembered in history of art for his psychological complexity.

André Derain- He was alive from 1880- 1954. His work falls under the movement known as fauvism. He is remembered for being the co-founder of the movement fauvism and has shown the tremendous skill throughout his years.

My Bench Artists

Robert Indiana

• Born in 1928 and is 82 years old
• Associated with Pop Art movement
• Known best for his work of short words, especially LOVE

Jasper Johns

• Born in 1930 and is 81 years old
• Abstract Expressionism, Neo-Dada, and Pop Art
• Known for his artistic use of classic iconography (American flag)

Frida Kahlo

• Born in 1907 and died in 1954 at the age of 47
• Surrealist painter
• Known for her many self portraits that were inspired from events in her life

Wassily Kandinsky

• Born in 1866 and died in 1944 at the age of 78
• Expressionist and abstract painter
• He considered the central aspect of his art 'inner necessity', which consisted of inner beauty, fervor of spirit, and spiritual desire

Gustav Klimt

• Born in 1862 and died in 1918 at the age of 55
• Part of the Art Nouveau and Symbolism movements
• Began his career painting interior murals and ceilings

My 5 artists

Giuseppe Arcimboldo

· Lived from 1527- July 11, 1593

· Arcimboldo was apart of the Mannerism period.

· Arcimboldo is known for his painted portraits of people in fruit and vegetable form.

Mary Cassatt

· Lived from May 22^nd, 1844-June 14^th, 1926

· Cassatt’s work was said to be impressionism.

· Her paintings were known to present social and private lives of women.

Georges Braque

· Lived from May 13^th, 1882- August 31^st, 1963

· Braque is a cubist

· Braque described his cubist work as experienced beauty.

Josef Albers

· Lived from March 19^th, 1888-March 19^th, 1888

· Albers was considered a conceptual artist

· Albers work is a form of transition between traditional European art and new American art.

Jean-Michel Basquiat

· Lived from December 22^nd, 1960-August 12^th, 1988

· He was a graffiti artist

Robert Ryman

May 30, 1930-present

Minimalism, conceptual art

Ryman’s work is considered minimalistic and avant-garde because of his conceptual approach and his simple “white-paint on square canvas”.

Georges Seurat

December 2, 1859-March 29,1891

Pointillism, neo-impressionism

He developed a new technique of painting known as pointillism and altered the direction of modern art by initiating Neo-impressionism(one of the icons of 19th century painting).

Wayne Thiebaud

November 15, 1920-present

Pop art movement

Thiebaud influenced the pop art movement by using heavy pigment and exaggerated colors to depict his subjects.

Cy Twombly

April 25, 1928 – July 5, 2011

Calligraphic style

His unique style blurs the line between drawing and painting and can be interpreted visually through shapes and forms and words.

Frank Stella

May 12, 1936-present

Modernism, minimalism, geometric abstractions

He used his knowledge of abstract expressionism to create unique patterns through different medias such as painting, printmaking, sculpture and architecture.

Maggie Nemecz

1. Renoir (1841–1919) was a part of the impressionist movement and was one of the main contributers to starting the impressionist style.

2. Rothko (September 25, 1903 – February 25, 1970) was apart of the abstract expressionism and color field movements. Rothko was a abstract expressionist but he did not claim himself to be one. His "multi-form" style of painting became a signature style.

3. Riley (born Apri 24, 1931 -) was apart of the optical art movement. Bridget Riley was a major contributer to the op art style. Her optical illusion styles are very well known even today.

4. Rauschenberg (October 22, 1925 – May 12, 2008) was a printmaker and a sculpter. He mad a transition from abstract expressionism to pop art with his prints. He was apart of the neo dada movement which is both audio and visual art.

5. Reinhardt (December 24, 1913 – August 30, 1967) was an abstract painter. Alike to my other artists he was a part of the movement centered around the Betty Parsons Gallery that became known as Abstract Expressionism. He was a founder of the Artist's club. Along with painting his work, he lectured to people about major influence on conceptual and minimal art.

Sol le Witt
September 9, 1928 – April 8, 2007
Conceptual art and minimalism
leWitt is considered the founder of conceptual and minimalism art

René Margritte
November 21, 1898 – August 15, 1967
Belgian surrealist
Margritte was known to make his work challenge the observers’ preconditioned perceptions of reality

Roy Lichtenstein
October 27, 1923- September 29, 1997
American pop artist
Lichtenstein was a leading role in the new art and defined the basic structure of pop art

Barbara Kruger
January 26, 1945 –
American conceptual artist
Kruger was criticizing the capitalist movement and gender roles with her use of advertisement in her feminist pieces

Édouard Manet
January 23, 1832 – April 30, 1883
Manet played a big part in the transition from realism to impressionism

Art History Bench Research-Due Monday December 12th 8pm

Research your five assigned artists for the collaborative bench project.

Post the following for each artist. Use your own words and complete sentences.
-Dates they lived
-What movement they are considered to "belong to"
-Why your artist is considered important in the continuum of art history

This information will be presented with the final bench in March at the auction.

Self Evaluation

Part One

1. I feel that I was successful with the use of various colors that either stood out or blended well together. However, I don't think I was successful in trying to re-invent the piece that my mentor artists previously created.

2. Inspiration in art means to see something and think of another idea that relates to that piece but that does not copy the source of the inspiration. Imitation is to copy a piece and try to make it look as close to the original as possible.

Part Two

To be considered as a piece of art I think that time, technique, and an original idea are needed for a piece to be considered a work of art.

Part Three

1. I don't think this should be considered an extremely important piece of art since there is no technique and very little time needed in order to complete the piece. However, the piece dose meet the requirement of being an original idea.

2. This is most definitely a work of art since it took a very long time, an amazing amount of technique, and was a complete original idea.

3. This is art because it appears to have taken a long time to develop the idea, execute it, and then successfully putting it together. Although it is a photograph it does feature all the requirements that are need to be considered art.

4. This is art because it took a good deal of time and it was an innovative and never before done concept. The only requirement that the piece lacks is that it doesn't appear to have taken a great amount of technique in order to accomplish.

5. This is most defiantly a work of art, because it appears to have taken a great deal of time and technique in order to accomplish a piece of this magnitude. It also is a completely innovative and original idea that although looks easy to accomplish, is extremely complex to execute.