The Critique of Art: Famous Artists and Works That Influenced Culture

1. The “Critique” of ArtAn Analysis of Famous Artists and Works Rendered That Influenced American and World Culture

2. Responding: • Essential Question: What is an image? Where and how do we encounter images in our world? How do images influence our views of the world? • (Interpret) an artwork or collection of works, supported by relevant and sufficient evidence (elements and principles) found in the work and its various contexts • Connecting: • Enduring Understanding: Through art-making, students make meaning by investigating and developing awareness of perceptions, knowledge, and experiences • Utilize inquiry methods of observation, research, and experimentation to explore unfamiliar subjects through art-making

3. Exit Ticket Through the process (activity) today, how can this activity be beneficial in your Analysis moving forward? Please provide a brief, yet descriptive response using key words provided during the lesson. Place answer in you in-box next to your instructors desk

4. DaVinci • Leonardo Da Vinci (1452–1519) Italian Renaissance painter, scientist, inventor, and polymath. Da Vinci is one of the most famous painters for his iconic Mona Lisa and Last Supper

5. Michelangelo • Michelangelo (1475–1564) Renaissance sculptor, painter and architect. Famous works include the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel and the statue of David.

6. Van Gogh • Vincent Van Gogh (1853–1890). Dutch post-impressionist painter, who spent many years in France. Despite turbulent mental state, Van Gogh produced some of the greatest works of all time –  Starry Night, Sunflowers, Bedroom in Arles, Van Gogh’s chair and The Cafe Terrace.

7. Munch • EdvardMunch (1863–1944) Norwegian expressionist and avant-garde painter, whose works were often on highly psychological themes. Painted The Scream (1893).

8. Matisse • Henri Matisse, born December 31, 1869-November 3, 1954, Regarded as the most important French painter of the 20th century. He was the leader of the Fauvist movement about 1900, and he pursued the expressiveness of colour throughout his career. His subjects were largely domestic or figurative, and a distinct Mediterranean verve presides in the treatment.

9. Picasso • Pablo Picasso (1881–1973) Spanish, modern cubist painter. Notable works include: Birds of Peace, Guernica (1937) and The Weeping Woman (1937)

10. QUICK FACTS O’Keeffe • Georgia O'Keeffe, 1887-1996 was a 20th-century American painter and pioneer of American modernism best known for her canvases depicting flowers, skyscrapers, animal skulls and southwestern landscapes.

11. Dali • Salvador Dali (1904–1989) Spanish surrealist painter, who was an imaginative and innovative artist. His works stretched across many genres, such as surrealism, cubism and dadaism. Notable works include The Persistence of Memory (1931).

12. Lawrence • Jacob Lawrence (September 7, 1917 – June 9, 2000) a painter known for his portrayal of African-American life. ... Lawrence referred to his style as "dynamic cubism", though by his own account the primary influence was not so much French art as the shapes and colors of Harlem.

13. Warhol • Andy Warhol, August 6, 1928-February 22, 1987. An American artist and filmmaker, an initiator and leading exponent of the Pop Art movement of the 1960s. Anadroit self-publicist, he projected a concept of the artist as an impersonal, even vacuous, figure who is nevertheless a successful celebrity, businessman, and social climber.