Dorothea Lange
Dorothea Lange (May 25, 1895 – October 11, 1965) was an influential American documentary photographer and photojournalist, best known for her Depression-era work for the Farm Security Administration (FSA). Lange's photographs humanized the tragic consequences of the Great Depression and profoundly influenced the development of documentary photography.
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M. C. Escher
Maurits Cornelis Escher (June 17, 1898 – March 27, 1972), usually referred to as M. C. Escher, was a Dutch graphic artist. He is known for his often mathematically inspired woodcuts, lithographs and mezzotints. These feature impossible constructions, explorations of infinity, architecture and tessellations.
We use Escher's work as a model of progressive rhythm.
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Vincent Van Gogh
Vincent Willem van Gogh (30 March 1853 – 29 July 1890) was a Dutch Post-Impressionist artist. His paintings and drawings include some of the world's best known, most popular and most expensive pieces.
Van Gogh began his artistic career late in his life and the early part working at improving his drawing. He focused on drawing for 2 years before he began painting. Although we do not need to work on drawing for 2 years, we can learn from Van Gogh's example that drawing is one of the foundations of art-making.
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Pablo Picasso
One of the most recognized figures in 20th century art, he is best known as the co-founder, along with Georges Braque, of cubism. It has been estimated that Picasso produced about 13,500 paintings or designs, 100,000 prints or engravings, 34,000 book illustrations and 300 sculptures or ceramics.
Henri Matisse
Henri Matisse
(b. Dec. 31, 1869, Le Cateau, Picardy, Fr.-d. Nov. 3, 1954, Nice) The artist often regarded as the most important French painter of the 20th century. The leader of the Fauvist movement around 1900, Matisse pursued the expressiveness of color throughout his career.
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Joseph Cornell
