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Pablo Picasso

Painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist and theatre designer

As one of the greatest influences on the course of 20th-century art, Pablo Picasso often mixed various styles to create wholly new interpretations of what he saw. He was a driving force in the development of Cubism, and he elevated collage to the level of fine art. Their paintings utilize a palette of earth tones. The works depict deconstructed objects with complex geometric forms.

• Màlaga
• Cubism
• Geometric forms

Pablo Picasso Biography (s.d.). Pablo Picasso Paintings, Quotes, & Biography

Frida Kahlo

Painter

Mexican artist Frida Kahlo used to draw on personal experiences, including her marriage, her miscarriages, and her numerous operations, Kahlo's works often are characterized by their stark portrayals of pain. Kahlo was deeply influenced by indigenous Mexican culture, which is apparent in her use of bright colors and dramatic symbolism. She frequently included the symbolic monkey.

• Coyoacán
• Self-portraits
• Criticism
• Surrealist or magical realist

Frida Kahlo Foundation (2017). Frida Kahlo Biograpgy with all details. Frida Kahlo Foundation.

Yayoi Kusama

Avant-garde sculptor, painter and novelist

Her work is based in conceptual art and shows some attributes of feminism, minimalism, surrealism, Art Brut, pop art, and abstract expressionism. She uses repetition, dots, symbols, pumpkins, mushrooms, mirrors and reflective surfaces.

• Matsumoto, Japan
• Avant-garde
• Dots and repetition
• Criticism

Yayoi Kusama video

The Art Story (2023). Yayoi Kusama Art. The Art Story.

Vincent van Gogh

Painter

He used oil paintings and his artworks include landscapes, still lifes, portraits and self-portraits, and are characterised by bold, symbolic colours, and dramatic, impulsive and highly expressive brushwork. Later, his paintings grew brighter and he turned his attention to the natural world, depicting local olive groves, wheat fields and sunflowers.

• Zundert, Netherlands
• Post - Impressionist
• Different artworks

Suzan Drummen

Visual artist

She makes multidisciplinary works in the media of painting, photography, installation and public art. The works are are a playful investigation of space, illusion, optical effects and other visual phenomena. Her artworks include large-scale floor installations that are mesmerizing and complex circular patterns made out of mirrors and brightly colored glass.

• Netherlands
• Visual artist
• Circular patterns
• Mirrors and colored glass

Jackson Pollock

Painter

American painter who was a leading exponent of Abstract Expressionism, an art movement characterized by the free-associative gestures in paint sometimes referred to as “action painting.” During his lifetime he received widespread publicity and serious recognition for the radical poured, or “drip,” technique he used to create his major works.

• Wyoming
• Abstract expressionism
• Drip technique
• Action painting

Valentine, F. (9 d'agost del 2023). Jackson Pollock. Britannica.

Piet Mondrian

Painter

He used figurative painting, but then he changed to an increasingly abstract style, until he reached a point where his artistic vocabulary was reduced to simple geometric elements. Neoplaticism: he decided to limit his formal vocabulary to the three primary colors (red, blue and yellow), the three primary values (black, white and grey) and the two primary directions (horizontal and vertical).

• Amersfoort, Netherlands
• Abstract Art
• Neoplaticism

Wassily Kandinsky

Painter

Synaesthetic concept (being available to both the senses) of a universal correspondence of forms, colors and musical sounds. Kandinsky also developed a theory of geometric figures and their relationships. His art has a confluence of music and spirituality. Impressions (representational element), Improvisations (spontaneous emotional reaction), Compositions (ultimate works of art).

• Moscow
• Forms, colors and music
• Spirituality
• Impression, improvisation and composition

Roy Lichtenstein

Pop Art painter in the style of comic strips, he used words to express sound effects. He developed a detached, mass-produced effect by outlining areas of primary colour with thick black lines and by using a technique that simulated benday screening (a dot pattern used by engravers).

• New York
• Pop Art
• Comics
• Dots, lines, primary colors

The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica (25 setembre 2023). Roy Lichtenstein. Britannica.

Andy Warhol

Pop Art Artist

He used a wide variety of art forms, including performance art, filmmaking, video installations and writing and controversially blurred the lines between fine art and mainstream aesthetics. Andy Warhol was one of the most prolific and popular artists of his time, using both avant-garde and highly commercial sensibilities. Warhol used his own blotted line technique and rubber stamps to create his drawings.

• New York
• Stamps
• Pop Art
• Explore popular culture

Biography.com Editors (11 de març de 2014). Andy Warhol Biography. The Biography.com website