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Unit 5

Frida Kahlo: 

  • Born in Mexico

  • Had polio

  • exagerated facial hair in self portraits 

  • Considered on of Mexico's greatest artists

  • mostly self portraits

  • Became politically active and married another communist artist

  • uses bold and bright colors

Salvador Dali

  • Spanish painter

  • sculptor

  • filmmaker

  • print maker

  • performance artist

  • born 1904

  • surrealism

  • meaningful paintings

  • known for persistance of memory

Rene Magritte

  • Belgian surrealist artist

  • Thought provoking work

  • ordinary objects in unusual context

  • challenged the observer

  • born 1899

  • challenged perception of reality

  • satirical and contradictory work

  • playful style

  • very clean art

  • inspired by tragedies at a young age

Toulouse Lautrec

  • french painter

  • print maker

  • draughts man

  • caricaturist and illustrator

  • colorful

  • born 1864

  • died in 1901

  • 5 feet tall

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Unit 6

Faith Ringgold

  • American painter

  • writer

  • mixed media sculptor

  • best known for quilts

  • born 1930 in Harlem New York

  • Attended City College of New York

  • Baltimore Museum of Art

  • Metropolitan Museum of Art

  • Patchwork 

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Klimt

  • Austrian

  • Symbolist painter

  • prominent members of Vienna Secession movement

  • noted for painting murals and sketches

  • born 1862

  • died 1918

  • primary subject was people

unit 7

Banksy; a pseudoanonymous England Based street artist, political activist, and film director, Real name and identity unknown.​

Chalres Schulz: American cartoonist and creator of the comic strip peanuts. Widely regarded as one of the most influential cartoonists of all time.

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