Artists to Know About!

Art teachers are constantly looking for new artists so they can expose their students to as much as possible. Normally, I always know what theme or topic we will be discussing in art and then research new artists that fall under those concepts. I've been formulating an ever-growing list of contemporary artists and art throughout history that I have taught about or want to teach about. Here is that list! Want to add to it? Comment with people I've missed!

The Relationship Between Emotion and Color

• Picasso- Blue Period

• Henri Matisse-Harmony in Red

• Wassily Kandinsky - Yellow Red Blue

• Edvard Munch - The Scream

Children's Illustrators

• Eric Carle

• Graeme Base

• Maurice Sendak

• Fx Goby

• Khoa Le

• Steve Jenkins

Nature/Environments

• Elyse Dodge

• Jessica Fields

• Emily Carr

• Tom Thompson

• Andre Derain

• Toyo Sesshu

• Sarah Moore

• Lewa Studio :P

• Jess Franks

• Michelle Morin

• Angie Lewin

• Jane Newland

• Georgia Okeefe

• Henri Rousseau

• Paul Cezanne

• Robert Smithson

• David Hockney

• Jim Musil

Identity

• Frida Kahlo

• Yayoi Kusama

• Kehinde Wiley

• Alasdair Thomson

• Leonardo DaVinci - Mona Lisa

• Zara Picken

• Maxine Naidoo

• Michael Reeder

Imagine/Wish

• Rene Magritte

• Salvador Dali

• Eileen Agar

• Lasar Segall

• Karel Appel

• Edgar Degas

• John Singer Sargent- Carnation Lily Lily Rose

• Michael Buhler

Murals

• Patries Van Elsen

• Eduardo Kobra

• Hebru Brantley

Still Life/Objects

• Vincent Van Gogh

• Fikret Mualla

• Simon Renard de Sainte-Andre

• Jennifer Allevato

• Melissa Lyons

• Andy Warhol

• Ron Ulicny

• Sarah Perez

• Leo Sewell

• Christian Faur

• Ran Hwang

Weather

• JMW Turner- Snowstorm

• Katsushika Hokusai-Great Wave

• Andrew Wyeth-First Snow

• Georgia Okeefe-Sunrise

• Van Gogh-REaper with Wheat Field and Sun

Family

• Mary Cassatt

• Rachel Whiteread - Storytime

• Njideka Akunyili Crosby

• William H Johnson

• Rosa Bonheur

• Sandra Silberzweig

• Maria Rova

Daily Life Experiences

• James Rizzi

• Ando Hiroshige

• Winslow Hower

• Roberto Bernardi

• Georges Seurat

• Jean-Honore Fragonard-The Swing

Land of Make Believe

• Jung Lee

• Raphael Sanzio- St George and the Dragon

• Jaro Hess

• Salvador Dali

• Rene Magritte

• Noah Bradley

• Song Kang

• Frank Webb

• Jonathan Edwards

• Nima Sprout

• Ian McQue

• Levi Watson

• Joan Miro

• Yves Tanguy

• Michael Buhler

Repurpose Objects (some good ones also listed under still life/objects)

• Andy Goldsworthy

• Martin Roller

• Alexander Calder

• Sheila Hicks

Fiber Arts

• Faith Ringgold

• Rithika Merchant

• Lauren Williams

• Toni Brogan

• Celia Esteves

• Maryanna Moodi

• El Anatsui

• Alexandra Kehayoglou

Rulers and Leaders

• Nicholas Hilliard - Portrait of Queen Elizabeth I

• A. Zoffoli - The Walktz

• Peter Paul Rubens - Coronation of Marie...

• Head of Nefertiti

• Shepard Fairey - Barak Obama

• Kehinde Wiley - Barak and Michelle Obama

Abstract Expression

• Helen Frankenthaler

• Frank Stella

• Bridget Riley

• Franz Kline

• Josef Albers

• Keith Haring

• Victor Vasarely

• Sonia Delaunay

• Paul Klee

• Gerhard Richter

• Arshile Gorky

Mind

• Sergio Ingravalle

• Roy LIchtenstein

• Melissa McCracken

Figures in Motion

• Paula Rego - The Dance

• David Bomberg - Mudbath

• George Bellows

• Paul Klee

• Edgar Degas

Imaginative X-Ray

• Miles Johnson

• Miroslav Zgabaj

• Steeven Salvat

• JR Rapier

Story Telling/Illustration

• The Hagia Sophia - Byzantine Period

• Jan Vermeer - The Art of Painting

• Roy Lichtenstein - Whaam!

• Miyazaki

Music

• Melissa McCracken

• Jack Coulter

• Henri Matisse

• Craig Anthony

• Romare Howard Bearden

Unity

• Basquiat

• Kara Walker

• Jasper Johns

• Ben Shahn

View From Above

• Virginia Moore

• Mona Ed Ulesco

• Alexis Martinez Puleio

• Victoria Rose Richards

• Carl Auge

• Jim Lively Warren Keating

Warrior

• Lee Wee Chong

• Terra Cotta Army

• Francisco de Goya

• Kehinde Wiley

Political/Propaganda art >>Documenting Changing Times

• Norman Rockwell

• Barbara Kruger

• Guerrilla Girls

• Banksy

• Shepard Fairey

Clothing Expression

• Gustav Klimt

• Sonia Delaunay

• Yayoi Kusama

• Salvador Dali and Elsa Schiaparelli

• Piet Mondrian and Yves Saint Laurent

• Andy Warhol and Versace

Environmental Art

• Robert MorisChris Jordan

• Agnes Denes

• Edith Meusnier

• Nils-udo

• Andy Goldsworthy

• Nick Pena

Future

• Umberto Boccioni

• Giacomo Balla

• Aleksandra Ekster

• Gino Severini

• Simon Stalenhag

• E Escher

World Problems

• Fidencio Martinez

• Picasso

• Rockwell

• Pawel Kuczynksi

• Eteri Chkadua

• Sarah Hatton

• Ai Wei Wei

Words in Art

• Jenny Holzer

• Ed Ruscha

• Bruce Nauman

• Mel Bochner

• Steve Powers

• Ben Eine

• Wayne White

• Stefan Sagmeister

• Niki Hare

• Thomas Edetun

• Barbara Kruger

• Peter Blake

• Pref

Persecution

• Bedrich Fritta - Rear Entrance

• Ella Liebermann-Shiber -Mocking a Jew at Prayer

• Imigongo Art (almost wiped by Rwandan Genocide

• Abdalla Omari - I Am Alive

Depicting Moments of History

• John Trumbull

• Jacques-Louis David

• Emanuel Leutze

• Spencer Platt

• Richard Drew

• Alfred Eisenstaedt

• Neil Leifer

• John Dominis

• Dorothea Lange

Identity through Hair

• Laetitia Ky

• Lorna Simpson

• Althea Murphy-Price

• Frida Khalo

• Pola Lopez

• Ewa Juszkiewicz

• Tomihiro Kono

• Domonique Jacobs

In the Workforce

• Ann Wallace

• Bruegel the ElderDerek Slater

• Evelyn Dunbar

• Laura Knight

• Richard Prince

Inner Conflict/Mental Helath

• Ben Quilty

• Chris Mars

• Emily Coxhead

• Gemma Correll

• Shawn Coss

Happy Place

• Frank Newbould

• Maggie Hambling

• Kerry James Marshall