What is Art?

1. What is Art? The Variety of Art

2. The Shira-Punu people of Ganon and the congo Ceremonial mask of Punu ideals of female beauty Represent the female guardian spirit Males perform the athletic dance rituals An enduring symbol of Punu culture. Funerary Mask

3. Thomas Moran (1837–1926) Hudson River School painter famous for landscapes of the American West By Alexandra A. Jopp A master of composition and inspired by J.W.M Turner and Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot, Thomas Moran became known for monumental romantic landscapes of the American West and his efforts in establishing the first national park at Yellowstone. Grand Canyon by Thomas Moran

4. http://www.fallingwater.org/ Built in 1936 for Edgar and Lilian Kaufmann, wealthy owners of a Pittsburg department store. The Kaufman House: Fallingwater

5. Hans Hofmann was born in Weissenburg, Germany and studied in his home country at Munich. He came across the influence of the Impressionists, the Fauves, and the Cubists in Paris in the early 1900’s. He began his own school in Munich in 1915, then moved his school to New York in 1931, where he taught his technique of improvisation. Hofmann’s work is insistent upon color, texture, and form, his experimentation with these aspects helping to develop Abstract Expressionism in America. The Wind Hans Hofmann

6. (born January 28, 1929) is a Swedishsculptor, best known for his public art installations typically featuring very large replicas of everyday objects. Another theme in his work is soft sculpture versions of everyday objects. Clothespin Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen

7. 9 April 1906- 15 March 1997, was a HungarianFrench artist whose work is generally seen aligned with Op-art. His work entitled Edetta, created by Vasarely in the, is considered by some to be one of the earliest examples of Op-art. Vasarely died in Paris in 1997. Victor Vasarely Edetta

8. Ansel Easton Adams (February 20, 1902 – April 22, 1984) was an American photographer and environmentalist, best known for his black-and-white photographs of the American West, especially in Yosemite National Park. One of his most famous photographs was Moon and Half Dome, Yosemite National Park, California. Ansel Adams, Half Dome, Merced River, Winter Yosemite Valley, 1971

9. Claes Oldenburg (born January 28, 1929) is a sculptor, best known for his public art installations typically featuring very large replicas of everyday objects. Another theme in his work is soft sculpture versions of normally hard objects. Oldenburg was born in Stockholm, Sweden, the son of a Swedish diplomat. As a child he and his family moved to America in 1936, first to New York then, later, to Chicago. He studied at Yale University from 1946 to 1950, … Claes Oldenburg, Floor Cake (Giant Pieces of Cake), 1962

10. Maria Montoya Martinez (1881 in San Ildefonso Pueblo, New Mexico – July 20, 1980 in San Ildefonso Pueblo, New Mexico) was a Native American artist who created internationally known pottery. Martinez (born Maria Antonia Montoya), her husband Julian, and other family members examined traditional Pueblo pottery styles and techniques to create pieces which reflect the Pueblo people’s legacy of fine artwork and crafts.

11. Pierre-Auguste Renoir 25 February 1841 – 3 December 1919) was a French artist who was a leading painter in the development of the Impressionist style. As a celebrator of beauty, and especially feminine sensuality. Pierre Auguste Renoir Luncheon of the Boating Party