
Spotlight Artist: Martin Puryear (b. 1941)
From VMFA: "Puryear’s abstract sculptures, while often simple in shape and materials, are richly allusive. This combination of qualities...

Spotlight Artist: Dada Movement - Marcel Duchamp (1887-1968)
FIRST: watch the video below. Along with the "criteria for art" that you considered with AS #14, consider now the "purposes for art" as...

Spotlight Artist: Donatello
Donato di Niccolò di Betto Bardi (c. 1386 – 13 December 1466), better known as Donatello (Italian: [donaˈtɛllo]), was an Italian...

Spotlight Artwork: Giotto (1267 - 1337) - Gothic/Proto-Renaissance Art
LamentationArena Chapel (Capella Scrovegni), Padua, Italy, ca. 1305. Fresco, 6’ 3/4” x 6’ 3/4” Synopsis In his Lives of the Most...

Spotlight Artist: Neoclassicism - Jacques-Louis David
The art of Jacques Louis David embodies the style known as Neoclassicism, which flourished in France during the late eighteenth and early...

Spotlight Artist: Rococo - Jean-Honoré Fragonard
Jean-Honoré Fragonard - 5 April 1732[2][3] – 22 August 1806) was a French painter and printmaker whose late Rococo manner was...

Spotlight Artist: Lorenzo Bernini
One of the most important early Baroque sculptors, Bernini is best known as the creator of the Ecstasy of St. Theresa sculpture. ...

Spotlight Artist: Lorenzo Ghiberti
One of the most important early Renaissance sculptors, Ghiberti is best known as the creator of the bronze doors of the Baptistery of...

Spotlight Artist: Raphael
The School of Athens Raffaello Sanzio (or Santi) da Urbino 1509-1511 Fresco Rome Read and take notes: (adapted from...

Spotlight Artist: Helen Frankenthaler
Helen Frankenthaler was among the most influential artists of the mid-twentieth century. Introduced early in her career to major artists...