Praxis Art Content

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Brancusi-Madame Pagony

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Matisse-Dance I

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Naturalist and Ornithologist who primarily painted birds.

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James Audubon

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Manet- The Fifer

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James McNeill Abbott Whistler: Arrangement in Grey and Black No.1 (Whistler's Mother)

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Eakins-The Gross Clinc

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Daumier-The Third Class Carriage

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Rosa Bonheur-The Horse Fair

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Delacroix-Liberty Leading the People

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Jaques-Louise David-The Death of Marat

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Duccio-The Maesta

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Poussin-Et in Arcadia ego (The Arcadian Shepherds)

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Masaccio-The Holy Trinity

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Limbourg Brothers-October scene from their illuminated manuscript "Tres Riches Heures du Duc de Berry"

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Artemisia Gentileschi-Judith Slaying Holofernes

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Velazquez-Las Meninas (Velazquez was a portrait artist during the Spanish Golden Age and the Baroque Period)

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Peter Paul Rubens-The Assumption of the Virgin Mary (Rubens was a Flemish Baroque artist know for his stylized sensual-ism and Counter-Reformation paintings)

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Faith Ringgold-Illustration 2: The French Collection Part I, #4, The Sunflower Quilting Bee at Arles

(Ringgold is an African American artist who primarily works with quilts and textiles)

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Romare Bearden-The Block

(Artist who depicted African American life/culture through collage)

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Fragonard-The Swing (Rococo Artist)

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Anselm Kiefer-The Orders of the Night (German Painter and Sculpture who works with ash/straw/shellac. Reoccurring themes: the Holocaust/German History)

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Botticelli-The Birth of Venus

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Vermeer-Girl with the Pearl Earring (Dutch Painter who specialized in the interior life of the middle class)

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Caravaggio- St. Jerome (Italian painter know for his use of tenebrism and chiaroscuro)

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Mapplethorpe-Frank Diaz (Highly stylized and sensual black and white photographs. Motifs-BDSM/Homoeroticisim)

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Calder-Napervillewildcat (Sculptor and originator of mobile/kinetic sculptures)

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Duchamp-Fountain

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Duchamp-Nude Descending a Staircase

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Becker- Self Portrait

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Jacob Lawrence- The Library

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Aaron Douglas-Aspects of Negro Life

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Jean-Michel Basquiet-Scull

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Claesz- Still Life With Wine Goblet and Oysters

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Giacometti- Le Chien

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Erich Lessing-N/A (Austrian black and white photographer)

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Frans Hals-The Officers of the St Adrian Militia Company in 1633 (Dutch Golden Age Painter who used a gestural brush stroke and specialized in portraiture)

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Jean Dubuffet-Landscape with Dog (Founder of the Art Brut movement)

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Henry Ossawa Tanner-The Banjo Lesson

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Jan Van Eyck- The Arnolfini Marriage

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Titian-Venus of Urbino

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Bierstadt-Yosemite Valley (Landscape artist know for his use of luminism/romanticism. A member of the Hudson River School)

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Thomas Cole-The Oxbow (Founder of the Hudson River School (a group of landscape painters influenced by romanticism))

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Henry Moore-Draped Seated Woman (Modernist sculpture famous for his sculptures of reclining women)

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Andre Derain-The Drying Sails (Founder of Fauvism (an art movement that valued painterly qualities and bold colors over the representational)