John Henry Twachtman (August 4, 1853 – August 8, 1902)
“Hollyhocks”
“Landscape4”
“Branchville”
He was an American painter best known for his impressionist landscapes, though his painting style varied widely through his career. He did oil paintings, etchings and drawings in pastel. Art historians consider Twachtman’s style of American Impressionism to be among the more personal and experimental of his generation. He was a member of “The Ten”, a loosely-allied group of American artists dissatisfied with professional art organizations, who banded together in 1898 to exhibit their works as a stylistically unified group.
I enjoy Twachter’s work because they remind me of when I was younger and how beautiful and peaceful the world seemed. His pieces reminded me of this because the different places and landscapes he draws are just all so peaceful. I also like how his work is calm and subtle.
Links to Websites:
http://www.johnhenrytwachtman.org
John Singer Sargent (January 12, 1856 – April 14, 1925)
“A Dinner Table At Night”
“Cashmere”
“Portrait of Madame X”
He was an American artist, considered the “leading portrait painter of his generation” for his evocations of Edwardian era luxury. During his career, he created roughly 900 oil paintings and more than 2,000 watercolors, as well as countless sketches and charcoal drawings.
I enjoy Sargent’s works because of his skill in creating his pieces with descriptive artfulness and special effects, like his use of light and shadow. I also enjoy how his pieces don’t involve the questions of right or wrong.
Link to Website:
http://www.johnsingersargent.org
George Wesley Bellows (August 12 or August 19, 1882 – January 8, 1925)
“Even Blue”
“Central Park”
“Riverfront”
He was an American realist painter, known for his bold depictions of urban life in New York City, becoming, according to the Columbus Museum of Art, “the most acclaimed American artist of his generation”.
I enjoy how broad his style is and how his pieces vary greatly. When looking at his pieces, I thought that there were different artists for all of the pieces, it did not seem like one person had painted them all.
Links to Websites:
http://www.georgewesleybellows.org
Georgia O’Keeffe (November 15, 1887 – March 6, 1986)
“From the Lake”
“Ram’s Head”
“Red Canna”
She was an American artist. Born near Sun Prairie, Wisconsin, O’Keeffe first came to the attention of the New York art community in 1916. She made large-format paintings of enlarged blossoms, presenting them close up as if seen through a magnifying lens, and New York buildings, most of which date from the same decade. Beginning in 1929, when she began working part of the year in Northern New Mexico—which she made her permanent home in 1949—O’Keeffe depicted subjects specific to that area. O’Keeffe has been recognized as the Mother of American Modernism.
A lot of O’Keeffe’s pieces are abstract and I really like that in her work. I like how her piece’s are voluminous, vivid, bold and illusionistic. When you look at her paintings, you experience them as a whole and process different sensations and reactions. I also like how her paintings seem like you can grab the objects from it.
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Marsden Hartley (January 4, 1877 – September 2, 1943)
“Painting No. 48”
“Portrait of a German Officer”
“The Ice Hole”
He was an American Modernist painter, poet, and essayist.
I enjoyed Hartley’s pieces because of the different types of strokes he used. I also enjoy the visual commotion along with the bright colors.
Link to Website
http://www.artchive.com/artchive/H/hartley.html
Joseph Stella (June 13, 1877 – November 5, 1946)
“Luna Park”
“Brooklyn Bridge”
“Flowers Italy”
He was an Italian-born American Futurist painter best known for his depictions of industrial America, especially his images of the Brooklyn Bridge. He is also associated with the American Precisionist movement of the 1910s-1940s.
I enjoyed that a lot of Stella’s pieces were painted as stained-glass like. I also love the many vibrant colors that he used in his pieces.
Link to Website:
http://www.sullivangoss.com/Joseph_Stella/
Manierre Dawson (December 22, 1887, Chicago, Illinois- August 15, 1969, Sarasota, Florida)
“Wharf Under Mountain”
“Xdx”
“Statement Met”
He was a painter and sculptor born and raised in Chicago, Illinois, but lived most of his life in Michigan. A precocious and ceaseless experimenter, Dawson independently developed stylistic and material innovations that rivaled his most progressive contemporaries.
I enjoy the abstraction in his paintings.
Link to Website:
Arthur Dove (August 2, 1880 – November 23, 1946)
“Clouds and Water”
“Cow”
“Goat”
He was an American artist. An early American modernist, he is often considered the first American abstract painter.
In Dove’s pieces, I enjoy his use of flattened compositions of geometric shapes to create an abstract in organic figures.
Links to Websites:
http://www.moma.org/collection/artist.php?artist_id=1602
http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/dove/hd_dove.htm
John Marin (December 23, 1870 – October 2, 1953)
“The Movement in Brown with Sun”
“Schooner Yachts”
“The Red Sun-Brooklyn Bridge”
He was an early American modernist artist. He is known for his abstract landscapes and watercolors.
I like that in Marin’s work, he incorporated representation and abstraction. I like how he used atmospheric effects and how he made his pieces illuminating.
Links to Websites:
http://www.moma.org/collection/artist.php?artist_id=3770
http://meredithwardfineart.com/a_marin-bio.html
Grant Wood (February 13, 1891 – February 12, 1942)
“January”
“Young Corn”
“Arbor Day”
He was an American painter born four miles east of Anamosa, Iowa. He is best known for his paintings depicting the rural American Midwest, particularly the painting American Gothic, an iconic image of the 20th century.
I like how Wood’s pieces all look like they are made out of clay. They remind me of many popular pixar animations that we have out now a days.
Link to Website:
http://www.grantwoodartgallery.org/grantwood.htm
Ivan Albright (February 20, 1897 – November 18, 1983)
“Into the World There Came a Soul Called Ida”
“Flesh (Smaller Than Tears are the Little Blue Flowers)”
“There Were No Flowers Tonight”
He was an American magic realist painter and artist, most renowned for his self-portraits, character studies, and still lifes.
I like how Albright’s style is completely different from other artist’s styles. His pieces are dark and deal with the dead and afterlife and zombies.
Links to Websites:
http://www.moma.org/collection/object.php?object_id=79198
http://www.tfaoi.com/newsmu/nmus40b.htm
Ilya Bolotowsky (July 1, 1907 – November 22, 1981)
“White, Black, Yellow and Red”
“Untitled”
“Blue Abstraction in a Square”
He was a leading early 20th-century painter in abstract styles in New York City. His work, a search for philosophical order through visual expression, embraced cubism and geometric abstraction and was much influenced by Dutch painter Piet Mondrian.
I like Bolotowsky’s pieces because they remind me of perfection, with the straight lines and the perfectly sized squares and rectangles with no curved lines.
Links to Websites:
http://americanart.si.edu/collections/search/artist/?id=489
http://artists.parrishart.org/index.php/Detail/Entity/Show/entity_id/53
Jackson Pollock (January 28, 1912 – August 11, 1956),
No. 11 (Blue Poles)
“The Flame”
“The Journal of the Doomed One”
He was an influential American painter and a major figure in the abstract expressionist movement. He was well known for his unique style of drip painting.
I like Pollock’s work because my imagination sees many things happening within his pieces. I like the chaos and the different colors that he uses.
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Joan Mitchell (February 12, 1925 – October 30, 1992)
“Untitled”
“Yves”
“Sunflowers”
She was a “second generation” abstract expressionist painter and printmaker. She was an essential member of the American Abstract expressionist movement, even though much of her career took place in France. She was one of her era’s few female painters to gain critical and public acclaim. Her paintings and editioned prints can be seen in major museums and collections across the United States and Europe.
I like Mitchell’s paintings because they are very chaotic and bright with color. I like how they’re abstracted and how in some pieces I can tell what it is but in others, I have absolutely no idea.
Link to Website:
http://www.theartstory.org/artist-mitchell-joan.htm
Zao Wou-Ki (pinyin: Zhào Wújí; 13 February 1920 – 9 April 2013)
“!0.1.68”
“Village en fete”
“27.08.82”
He was a Chinese- French painter. He was a member of the Academie des Beaux-Arts in Paris.
I love the colors and the composition and the textures of Wou-ki’s paintings. They are very peaceful to me.
Links to Websites:
http://www.asianart.com/exhibitions/zao/
http://www.christies.com/sales/modern-contemporary-prints-london-sept-2013/zao-wou-ki.aspx
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