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Featured Artists for School Year 2013-2014
OCTOBER 2013
Vincent Willem van Gogh (1853-1890)
Movement: Post-Impressionism
Dutch, post-Impressionist painter
who’s work--notable for its rough
beauty, emotional honesty and bold
color--had a far-reaching influence
on 20th-century art. In just over a
decade, he produced more than
2,100 artworks, consisting of 860
oil paintings and more than 1,300
watercolors, drawings, sketches and
prints. His work included selfportraits, landscapes, and still life.
Starry Night
NOVEMBER 2013
Pieter Bruegel the Elder (1525-1569)
Movement: Dutch and Flemish Renaissance
Considered the greatest Flemish
painter of the 16th century, Bruegel
is credited with originating Genre
Art – art that shows scenes from
daily life. He is one of the first
artists who focused on the beauty
and appeal of the landscape scenes
in his paintings, rather than using
landscape as background support
for the main subject of the painting.
The Harvesters
North Stratfield School
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DECEMBER 2013
Pablo Ruiz Picasso (1881-1973)
Movement: Cubism
Known as the “Father of Modern Art”,
Picasso, a Spanish painter, sculptor,
printmaker, ceramicist, and stage
designer spent most of his adult life in
France. As one of the greatest and most
influential artists of the 20th century, he
is known for co-founding the Cubist
movement, the invention of constructed
sculpture, the co-invention of collage,
and for the wide variety of styles that
he helped develop and explore.
Three Musicians
JANUARY 2014
Henri Matisse (1869-1954)
Movement: Fauvism, Modernism, and Impressionism
Henri Matisse was a French artist, (painter
printmaker, sculptor, collage) known for his use of
strange shape and shockingly bright color. His
bold, colorful works exemplified emotional
expression in ways that won him recognition as a
leading figure in modern art.
Purple Robe and Anemones
North Stratfield School
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FEBRUARY 2014
William H. Johnson (1901-1970)
Movement: Harlem Renaissance
William Johnson was a student at the National
Academy of Design in New York where his
mastery of the academy's rigorous standards gained
him both numerous awards and the respect of his
teachers and fellow students. He spent the late
1920s in France, absorbing the lessons of
modernism, but later immersed himself in the
traditions of Afro-America, producing work
characterized by its stunning, eloquent, folk art
simplicity.
Street Musicians
MARCH 2014
Georgia O’Keeffe (1887-1986)
Movement: American Modernism
Georgia O’Keeffe was one of the pioneers of
Modernism, she is best known for her large
abstract paintings of desert flowers, sunbleached animal skulls, and New Mexico
landscapes.
From the Lake #1
North Stratfield School
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APRIL 2014
Mary Cassatt (1844 – 1926)
Movement: American Impressionism
Mary Cassatt was an American painter and
printmaker who began studying painting at the
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in
Philadelphia at the early age of 15. She lived
much of her adult life in France, where she first
befriended Edgar Degas and later exhibited
among the Impressionists. Cassatt often created
images of the social and private lives of women,
with particular emphasis on the intimate bonds
between mothers and children.
Little Girl in Blue Arm Chair
North Stratfield School
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