Modern artists

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Are you looking for some new contemporary artists to teach your students about? On the Facebook Art Teachers group, members suggested LOTS of contemporary artists that they teach their students. These are now all compiled into ONE HUGE LIST on Google Docs! I added websites and short descriptions to most of the artists so it is easier to use. Thanks to all the teachers who collaborated to share their ideas and add artists. This huge list has about 130 artists … Read more... →

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Pablo Picasso is perhaps the most iconic artist of the twentieth century. Here are 15 anecdotes to help you learn more about the artist's work and life.

Today, I'm going to talk about an art movement, rather than a specific artist, such as last week's Dimitra Milan. This movement, clearly implied through the title of this post, is Surrealism. Now let's address some background of Surrealism before we get into some specific examples. Surrealism was in the Modern Art era, rising after…

But for the more art-oriented child (or indeed, adult), designer Andy Tuohy has created this lovely Great Modern Artists A-Z. So now, ‘k’ is no longer for ‘kangaroo’, but for Frida Kahlo.

In 1897, Klimt and a group of twenty other painters, sculptors and architects renounced the conservative Künstlerhaus to form their own artistic group. Klimt was chosen as its president and was active in organizing exhibitions until he left the group in 1905. Known as the Wiener Sezession (Vienna"u2026

Mark Rothko was an Abstract Expressionist painter famous for his masterful use of color. Here are 10 facts about his life and work.

These 15 modern portrait artists are bound to get your creative juices flowing.

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