Vincent Van Gogh, a Dutch Artist, sincerely expressed his feelings in his paintings. He used color and light and the strokes of his brush to create about 2,000 paintings and drawings in less than 10 years. One of his favorite flowers to paint was the sunflower. The students created this vase with sunflowers to commemorate his work.

  
Artwork size: 11" x 14"
 

  

John Singer Sargent, an America painter, born in Florence, was in awe of European culture. He had wide experience as a youthful traveler through Europe and he loved to represent the places that he visited in watercolor. His paintings of people were not only realistic but decorative and his fame and prosperity was based on his portraiture.  The students created a place they would like to visit to commemorate his work.
 
Artwork size: 14" x 11"
 

  

Henri Matisse, a French painter, stated, "When I see a painting, I forget what it represents. All that is important is line, form and colors." He wanted his pictures to be gay and sensuous, but he planned them like an engineer. His images drew their vitality from vibrating colors and vigorous shapes, and turned them into flat patterns in depthless space. The students created a picture showing shapes and patterns to commemorate his work.

Artwork size: 10" x 10" each section (20" x 10" total)
 

 
Pablo Picasso, a Spanish artist, said, "There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterwards you can remove all traces of reality." In his painting, The Three Musicians, three figures are simplified to an arrangement of flat shapes. His image resembles an interlocking jigsaw puzzle. He was an incredibly productive artist, who by the age of 87 created 2000 ceramic pieces, and etched 347 masterpieces. The students created in each class a musician in Picasso's style to commemorate his work.

  

 
Pablo Picasso, a Spanish artist, said, "There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterwards you can remove all traces of reality." In his painting, The Three Musicians, three figures are simplified to an arrangement of flat shapes. His image resembles an interlocking jigsaw puzzle. He was an incredibly productive artist, who by the age of 87 created 2000 ceramic pieces, and etched 347 masterpieces. The students created in each class a musician in Picasso's style to commemorate his work.

Artwork size: 18" x 18"

  

 

Jackson Pollock, an American painter, said, "The thing that interests me is that today painters do not have to go to a subject-matter outside themselves. Modern painters work in a different way. They work from within." His work combined highly personal, nonrepresentational calligraphic imagery, related to that of Surrealism. He developed a drip method of painting putting canvas on the floor and using brushes, spoons, sticks to make marks and also pouring paint directly onto the canvas. The students used some of the same techniques to create their painting commemorating his work.

Artwork size: 14" x 11"
 

  

Auguste Renoir, a French painter, captured the effects of light on nature. He wanted to reproduce the glow of sunlight on the canvas, so people would have to look at objects as if they were seeing them for the first time. He painted the first impressions of scenes using small strokes of bright color. The name given to these painters was the Impressionists. The students painted their version of Oarsmen at Chatou to commemorate Renoir.

Artwork size: 18" x 14"
 

 

Joan Miro, a Spanish painter, uses pure color and juxtaposes free forms with geometric lines. Every painting by Miro has a precise and specific meaning. In his early drawings, his subject is clearly recognizable. Then a process of substitution takes place in which a generic sign appears. It is with these colored signs that he builds up his vast and complex compositions. The students created their version of Miro's work in a painting.

Artwork size: 19 1/2" x 15 1/2"
 

 

Georgia O'Keefe was an American artist whose sensitive awareness of her surroundings and memory for recalling special events and details was remarkable. She portrayed the world simply as she saw it and her vision had many unusual perspectives. Flowers were her favorite subjects and she would paint them very close-up, to make us look at the beauty of flowers in a new light. Her art was innovative and influential in a style that was clearly powerful and sensual. The students in each class created one of her flower pictures in their style.

Artwork size: 32" x 40"

 

 

Georgia O'Keefe was an American artist whose sensitive awareness of her surroundings and memory for recalling special events and details was remarkable. She portrayed the world simply as she saw it and her vision had many unusual perspectives. Flowers were her favorite subjects and she would paint them very close-up, to make us look at the beauty of flowers in a new light. Her art was innovative and influential in a style that was clearly powerful and sensual. The students in each class created one of her flower pictures in their style.