Dying lioness -the Assyrians -horrific warriors in scripture
Assyrian winged bull
Ishtar Gate reign of King Nebuchadnezzar
Venus de milo
Giotto di Bondone (c. 1267 – January 8 , 1337 ), better known simply as Giotto , was an Italian painter and architect from Florence . He is generally considered the first in a line of great artists who contributed to the Italian Renaissance .The 16th century biographer Giorgio Vasari says of him "...He made a decisive break with the ...Byzantine style, and brought to life the great art of painting as we know it today, introducing the technique of drawing accurately from life, which had been neglected for more than two hundred years." [1
Botticelli
Masaccio
Mantegna
Fra Angelico
Leonardo de Vinci
Michelangelo Buonarrotti
Raphael
Caravaggio
Bellini
Titian The Rape of Eurpopa
Tintoretto The Last Supper
Brueghel
Jan Van Eyck
Vermeer
Rembrandt
Rubens The Rape of the Daughters of Luecippus 1618
Albrecht durer
El Greco from Spain (The Greek)
Velasquez
Sir Joshua Reynolds
Thomas Gainsborough
Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres 1845
Francesco Goya
Eugene Delacroix
John Constable
William Turner
Jean Baptist Corot
Jean Francois Millet
Gustave Courbet
William homer
Edouard Manet
Camille Pissarp
Berthe Morisot
Pierre Auguste Renoir
Claude Monet
Mary Cassatt- American
James Whistler-American
Georges Seurat
Paul Cezanne
Henri Toulousse Lautrec
Vincent Van Gogh brother Theo
Paul Gauguin
Amedeo Modigliani
Pablo Picasso Guernica
Georges Braque
Marcel Duchamp Nude descending stairs
Edvard Munch
Henri Rousseau
Diego Rivera
Frida Kahlo
Kathe Kollowitz
Henri Matisse
Franz Marc
Wassilly Kandinsky
Marc Chagall
Salvador Dali
Paul Klee
Joan Miro
Renee Magritte
John Singer Sargent
Thomas Hart Benton
Grant Wood
Edward hopper
Andrew Wyeth
Georgia O’keefe
Richard Diebenkorn
Ben Shahn BEN SHAHN American, born Lithuania, 1898-1969) Farmers ouache on composition board 1 x 42” llocation from the United States Government (Farm Security Administration) L1943.2.139 Ben Shahn, American photographer, painter, and lithographer, immigrated to New York in 1906. He began his artistic training at the age of fifteen, when he began an apprenticeship at Hassenberg’s Lithography Shop in Manhattan; he attended high school in the evenings. In 1916 Shahn took drawing classes at the Art Students League, and after studying Biology at New York University and the City College of New York, he enrolled at the National Academy of Design to pursue a career as an artist. Shahn traveled extensively during the 1920s, visiting Europe—where he studied the works of Henri Matisse, Paul Klee, and others—and more adventurous locations such as North Africa. Upon his return to New York, he met photographer Walker Evans, with whom he shared a studio, and he explored a number of media, including watercolor. By 1932 he was considered a social realist, and during the 1930s and 1940s he was employed by both the Works Progress Administration’s Federal Art Project and the Farm Security Administration. ike the W.P.A. (see Odd Fellows Hall by O. Louis Guglielmi), the Historical Section of the Farm Security Administration (F.S.A.) was a government-sponsored program. Charged with the purpose of recording and publicizing the government’s farm programs, the F.S.A., which commenced in 1935 under the direction of Roy Stryker, aimed “to introduce Americans to America.” Staff photographers, who included Arthur Rothstein, Marion Post-Wolcott, and Shahn, were sent to rural and small-town America to capture vernacular and commonplace images. Farmers , undoubtedly inspired by the F.S.A. photographs, embodies the plight of the American farmer during the Depression-ridden America. Shahn’s use of somber color and shadow intensify this grave scene, in which three farmers contemplate the severity of their situation. The expression of the man in the foreground, who closes his eyes as if in prayer, is especially foreboding.
Jacob Lawrence Born in Atlantic City, New Jersey in 1917, Jacob Lawrence emerged as one of America's leading figurative artists and the first to document the history of African Americans through widely-viewed and influential artworks. Lawrence and his family moved to Harlem in 1924, where he experienced the vibrancy of black intellectual, cultural, and artistic life in what was seen as the Harlem Renaissance. He became well known at the young age of 21 for his "Toussant L'Ouverture Series" (1937), a 41-painting collection that depicts the successful Haitian slave rebellion. At the age of 24, he became the first African American whose work was included in the permanent collection of the New York Museum of Modern Art.
William De Kooning
Jackson Pollock
Robert Motherwell
Mark Rothko
Cy Twombly Cy Twombly (born April 25 , 1928 ) is an American abstract artist .[ edit ]BiographyTwombly was born in Lexington, Virginia . From 1947 to 1949 he studied at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston , at Washington and Lee University in Lexington, and at the Art Students League in New York from 1950 to 1951 . There, he met Robert Rauschenberg who encouraged him to attend Black Mountain College , near Asheville, North Carolina , where he met John Cage . In 1951 and 1952 , he studied there under Franz Kline , Robert Motherwell , and Ben Shahn .The Kootz Gallery , New York, organized his first solo exhibition in 1951. At this time, his work was influenced by Kline's black-and-white gestural expressionism , as well as Paul Klee 's imagery. In 1952, Twombly received a grant from the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts that enabled him to travel to North Africa , Spain , Italy , and France .Upon his return in 1953 , Twombly served in the army as a cryptologist , and this left a distinct mark on his style. From 1955 to 1959 , he worked in New York, where he became a prominent figure among a group of artists including Robert Rauschenberg and Jasper Johns . In 1959, Twombly went to Italy and settled permanently in Rome . It was during this period that he began to create his first abstract sculptures , which, although varied in shape and material, were always coated with white paint. In Italy, he began to work on a larger scale and distanced himself from his former expressionist imagery.Twombly is best known for blurring the line between drawing and painting. Many of his paintings are reminiscent of a school blackboard someone has practiced cursive "e's" on, or hundreds of years of bathroom graffiti on a wall. Twombly had at this point done away with painting a representational subject matter, citing the line or smudge, each mark with its own history, as its own subject. Later, many of his paintings and works on paper move into "romantic symbolism", as titles can be visually interpreted through shapes and forms and words. Twombly often quoted the poet Stephane Mallarme, as well as countless myths and allegories in his works. Examples of this are his famous work Apollo And The Artist, or a series of eight drawings consisting solely of the word "VIRGIL".Twombly was invited to exhibit his work at the Venice Biennale in 1964 . In 1968 , the Milwaukee Art Center mounted the first retrospective of his art. The artist has also been honored by retrospectives at the Kunsthaus Zürich in 1987 , the Musée National d'Art Moderne , Paris , in 1988 , and the Museum of Modern Art , New York, in 1994 , with additional venues in Houston, Texas , Los Angeles , and Berlin . The Cy Twombly Gallery of the Menil Collection in Houston, which was designed by Renzo Piano and opened in 1995 , houses more than thirty of Twombly's paintings, sculptures, and works on paper, dating from 1953 to 1994. A large collection of Twombly's work is also kept by the Pinakothek der Moderne in Munich . In 2007, an exhibition of Twombly's last paintings "Blooming, a scattering of Blossoms and other Things", and other works on paper from gallerist Yvon Lambert's collection is visible (june to september) in Avignon (France) at the Lambert Foundation [ [1] ] (Hôtel de Caumont) .A recent (1998-1999) Twombly work, Three Studies from the Temeraire , a triptych , was purchased by the Art Gallery of New South Wales for $4.5 million AUD in 2004.On July 19, 2007, police arrested an artist after she kissed one of Twombly's works, an immaculate canvas, and smudged it with her lipstick. She is to be tried in a court in Avignon on August 16 for "damage to a work of art." The artwork, which is worth an estimated $2 million, was on display at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Avignon . [1] Twombly lives in Lexington and Italy.Twombly's father, also named Cy, pitched for the Chicago White Sox .
