{"id":12214,"date":"2021-09-10T14:56:43","date_gmt":"2021-09-10T20:56:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chriswisniaarts.com\/blog\/?p=12214"},"modified":"2023-02-12T19:27:40","modified_gmt":"2023-02-13T01:27:40","slug":"a-small-list-of-great-artists-intro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chriswisniaarts.com\/blog\/archives\/12214","title":{"rendered":"Brush with Peril, page 00c – Commentary – A Small Master List of Great Artists – Intro"},"content":{"rendered":"

A SMALL Master LIST OF GREAT ARTISTS,
\nAND THEIR IMPORTANCE TO ME, AND TO ART HISTORY
\n(in my opinion)<\/h4>\n

An important part of my art education was getting exposed to art, and finding work that spoke to me, and wanting from there to learn more about it and the artists who made it. Creating this graphic novel and studying art in this way completely surprised me by generating, by far, my greatest inspiration and excitement about art\u2019s history that I\u2019ve ever experienced.\u00a0 My hope is that this project will expose you to art that affects you, that you\u2019d like to learn more about.<\/p>\n

As rich and significant and wide-ranging as all of art history is, it was necessary to narrow my study of it for this project; not due to a need to edit down my inclusion of art history, but rather because any story, let alone a comic book story, is necessarily narrative in structure, and certain styles and periods of art are less narrative by design. And so, as a result, I felt older periods were limiting and less proper in portraying people\u2019s fashions, street scenes, living situations, or just simply non-religious imagery, in the context of my story of modern day spies. The same for more recent, more abstract modern periods, which were (for the most part) no longer representational in a way I could figure out to incorporate into the telling of my stories.<\/p>\n

That said, I did my best to try and include as much, and as wide a history, as I could. These limitations meant perhaps a slightly-too-heavy preponderance of work from the (almost exclusively White Male) French impressionist and following post-impressionist periods, and for this I apologize. However, in my neglecting to include your favorite artists or favorite pieces, please keep in mind that these periods were still essentially influential and fascinating within the history of art, AND that this graphic novel is volume one of a multi-volume story, leaving opportunities for deeper explorations.<\/p>\n

Below are – for me \u2013 a not-nearly-comprehensive-enough list of phenomenal artists, or at least artists with phenomenally fascinating (or horrible or despicable) lives, who were important to my artistic growth, or to creating this graphic novel, or (in my opinion) to the importance of the history of art.<\/p>\n

Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio<\/strong> (Italian, 1571-1610)
\nDiego Rodr\u00edguez de Silva y Vel\u00e1zquez<\/strong> (Spanish, 1599-1660)
\nRembrandt van Rijn<\/strong> (Dutch, 1609-1669)
\n<\/strong>-Rembrandt’s Self-Portraits
\n<\/strong>Francisco Jos\u00e9 de Goya y Lucientes<\/strong> (Spanish, 1746-1828)
\nJoseph Mallord William Turner <\/a><\/strong>(English, 1775-1851)
\nHonor\u00e9 Daumier<\/strong> (French, 1808-1879)
\nCamille Pissarro<\/strong>\u00a0(French, 1830-1903)\u00a0
\n<\/strong>\u00c9douard Manet<\/strong><\/a> (French, 1832-1883)
\nManet’s model<\/strong>, Victorine Meurent<\/strong><\/a> (French, 1844-1927)
\n– Manet’s Luncheon on the Grass<\/em> (1862)
\n<\/em>– Manet’s A Bar at the Folies-Berg\u00e8re<\/em> (1882)
\n<\/em><\/strong>Paul C\u00e9zanne<\/strong>\u00a0(French, 1839-1906)
\n\u00a0– C\u00e9zanne’s Bathers<\/strong>
\n\u00a0– C\u00e9zanne’s Self-Portraits
\n<\/strong>\u00a0– C\u00e9zanne’s Portraits of Madame Ce\u0301zanne
\n<\/strong>Claude Monet<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0(French, 1840-1926)
\n\u00a0– Monet’s Trains<\/a>
\n– Monet’s Park Scenes
\n– Monet’s Seine
\n– Monet’s Water Lilies
\n– Monet’s Poplars
\n<\/strong>\u00a0– Monet’s Haystacks
\n– Monet’s Bridges
\n– Monet’s Cathedrals
\n– Monet’s Seasides
\n<\/strong>Edgar Degas<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0(French, 1834-1917)
\n\u00a0– Degas’ Self-Portraits
\n– Degas’ Horse Races
\n– Degas’ Ballerinas
\n<\/strong>Berthe Morisot<\/strong>\u00a0(French, 1841-1895)
\nMary Cassatt<\/strong>\u00a0(American, 1844-1926)\u00a0
\nJohn Singer Sargent<\/strong>\u00a0(American, 1856-1925)\u00a0
\nGeorge Seurat<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0(French, 1859-1891)
\n– Seurat’s\u00a0A Sunday on La Grande Jatte<\/em> (1884)<\/strong>
\nVincent van Gogh<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0(Dutch, 1853-1890)
\n\u00a0– Van Gogh’s Self-Portraits<\/a>
\n<\/strong>\u00a0– Van Gogh’s Portraits of Roulin<\/strong><\/a>
\n\u00a0– Van Gogh’s Bedroom<\/strong>
\nPaul Gauguin<\/a><\/strong> (French, 1848-1903)
\n\u00a0– Gauguin’s Tahiti<\/a><\/strong>
\n\u00a0– Gauguin’s Self-Portraits
\nHenri de Toulouse-Lautrec<\/strong>\u00a0(French, 1864-1901)\u00a0
\nGustav Klimt<\/a><\/strong> (Austrian, 1862-1918)
\n\u00a0– Klimt’s landscapes
\n<\/strong>Egon Schiele<\/strong> (Austrian, 1890-1918)
\n\u00a0– Schiele’s Self-Portraits<\/strong>
\n<\/span>Edvard Munch<\/strong>\u00a0(Norwegian, 1863-1944)\u00a0
\nHenri Matisse<\/strong>\u00a0(French, 1869-1954)\u00a0
\nPablo Picasso<\/a><\/strong> (Spanish, 1881-1973)
\n– Picasso’s Early Work<\/strong> (thru 1897, age 16)
\n– Picasso’s Expressionist and Post Impressionist Influence<\/strong> (1897-1901)
\n– Picasso’s Blue Period<\/strong> (1901-1904)
\n– Picasso’s Rose Period<\/strong> (1904-1906)
\n– Picasso’s African Period<\/strong> (1906-1909)
\n– Picasso’s Cubism<\/strong> (1908-1914)
\n– Picasso’s Neoclassicism<\/strong> (1917-1925)
\n– Picasso’s Surrealism<\/strong> (1925-1932)
\n– Picasso’s Late Work<\/strong> (1932-1973)
\n\u00a0– Picasso’s Self-Portraits
\nPiet Mondrian<\/strong> (Dutch, 1872-1944)
\nGeorges Braque<\/strong>\u00a0(French, 1882-1963)\u00a0
\nMarevna (Marie Vorobieff)<\/strong>\u00a0(Russian, 1892-1984)\u00a0
\nHenri Rousseau<\/strong>\u00a0(French, 1844-1910)\u00a0
\nCha\u00efm Soutine<\/strong>\u00a0(Russian, 1893-1943)\u00a0
\nAmedeo Modigliani<\/strong>\u00a0(Italian, 1884-1920)
\nJames E. Allen<\/strong>\u00a0(American, 1894-1964)
\nMarcel Duchamp <\/strong>(French, 1887-1968)\u00a0
\n<\/strong>Ernst Ludwig Kirchner<\/strong>\u00a0(German, 1880-1938)
\nRen\u00e9 Magritte<\/strong><\/a> (Belgian, 1898-1967)
\n\u00a0– Magritte’s Paintings of Pipes (Treachery<\/em> of Images)<\/em><\/a>
\n– Magritte’s Dominion of Light<\/em> (or Empire of Light)<\/em><\/a>
\nSalvador Dal\u00ed<\/strong>\u00a0(Spanish, 1904-1989)\u00a0
\nEdward Hopper<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0(American, 1882-1967)
\n– Hopper’s Houses<\/a>
\n– Hopper’s City<\/a>
\nM.C. Escher<\/strong>\u00a0(Dutch, 1898-1972)\u00a0
\nGiorgio Morandi <\/a><\/strong>(Italian, 1890-1964)\u00a0
\nGeorgia O’Keeffe<\/strong> (American, 1887-1986)
\nFrida Kahlo<\/strong>\u00a0(Mexican, 1907-1954)
\nThomas Hart Benton<\/strong> (American, 1889-1975)\u00a0
\nJackson Pollock<\/strong>\u00a0(American, 1912-1956)\u00a0
\n<\/strong>Mark Rothko<\/strong>\u00a0(Russian, 1903-1970)
\nFrancis Bacon<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0(Irish-born, 1909-1992)
\n\u00a0– Bacon’s Popes<\/a>
\nRoy Lichtenstein<\/strong>\u00a0(American, 1923-1997)
\nLucian Freud<\/a><\/strong> (British, 1922-2011)
\n\u00a0– Freud’s Self-Portraits<\/a>
\n<\/strong>Antoni T\u00e0pies<\/strong>\u00a0(Spanish, 1923-2012)
\nCy Twombly<\/strong>(American, 1928-2011)\u00a0
\nJay DeFeo<\/strong>\u00a0(American, 1929-1989)
\nDavid Hockney<\/strong>\u00a0(British, 1937-)
\nRobert Arneson<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0(American, 1930-1992)
\n\u00a0– Arneson’s Self-Portraits<\/strong><\/a>
\nWayne Thiebaud<\/strong><\/a> (American, 1920-2021)
\n– Wayne Thiebaud’s City Scapes<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

GENERAL ART PERIODS
\nAfrican Art
\nEgyptian Art
\nAncient Western Sculpture
\nAsian Landscapes
\nMedieval Portraits
\nThe Renaissance
\nUkiyo-e (Japanese woodblock prints)<\/strong><\/p>\n

OTHER THEMES
\nAn Art Exhibit in Gotham City<\/a>
\n<\/strong>Artists Explore One Idea
\nSelf-Portraits
\nViolence
\n<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>
\nRead the comic book, “Brush with Peril”:<\/strong><\/em>
\n\"\"<\/a>
\n\"\"<\/a>\"\"<\/a>
\nBACK TO MASTER LIST<\/b><\/a>
\nSmall List of Great Artists<\/a><\/strong><\/em>
\nSmall List of Museums<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

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