Digital Art Meets the Great Masters

an opportunity to study a variety of different artists and their techniques, while imitating them with modern technology

Art
The products of human creativity; works of art collectively; an art exhibition; a fine collection of art The creation of beautiful or significant things
A superior skill that you can learn by study, practice and observation; the art of conversation; its quite an art

Big Ideas:
- Art is the creation of beautiful or significant things; it does not need to be innovative to be good.
- Art is a reflection of the time period and the culture in which it was made.

J.M.W. Turner (1775-1851)

Obsessed with natural events: sunlight, storms, rain and the sea.
Known for seascapes Explores light and shade like no one else does

Turner

Georges Seurat (1859-1891)

Founder of new-impressionism movement
Pointillism: technique of involving creating pictures from many thousands of tiny dots, rather than naturalistic brushstrokes
This makes the viewers eye mix colors instead of the artist doing it on his palette

Seurat

Paul Cezanne (1839-1906)

French post-impressionist painter
Painted figures and landscapes but was most successful with still life paintings of fruit and bowls

Cezanne

Henri Matisse (1869-1954)

Printmaker and sculptor as well as painter
Work relies heavily on color and texture Friends with Pablo Picasso - even though they were artistic rivals

Matisse

Piet Mondrian (1872-1944)

One of the foremost members of the De Stijl movement Stark, non-representational paintings, he called compositions Modernism taken to the extreme of form and color

Mondrian

Pablo Picasso ( 1881-1973)

Brought Cubism to the attention of the world
Supreme draughtsman Extreme stylist

Picasso

Rene Magritte (1898-1967)

Surrealist artist
Fervent imagination that had the ability to break into viewers collective psyche

Magritte

Salvador Dali (1904-1989)

Surrealist and great showman
Instantly recognizable artwork Had a profound influence on 20th Century art

Dali

Roy Lichtenstein (1923-1997)

Foremost proponents of Pop Art in the 1960s.
A way of making art come more in line with popular mass culture

Best known for his adaptations of the art style found in comic books
Stark, graphic images, strong outlines and cartoon lettering

Lichtenstein

Andy Warhol (1928-1987)

Truly iconic
Exemplifies Pop Culture One of the most imitated modern art styles

Warhol