Artists to Know About!
Updated: Apr 22, 2020
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
Nature/Environments
Lewa Studio :P
Identity
Leonardo DaVinci - Mona Lisa
Imagine/Wish
Murals
Still Life/Objects
Vincent Van Gogh
Weather
Family
Daily Life Experiences
Land of Make Believe
Repurpose Objects (some good ones also listed under still life/objects)
Fiber Arts
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
Frida Khalo
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
Anthony Kieron/Eur3es
Jessica Fields
Jess Franks
Sarah moore
Wayne Thiebaud
Julie Edmunds
Artistic Adventure
Sara Midda
Jennifer Collier
Rachel Pohl
Hamdi Abdullah
Lizzy Dalton
Craig Muderlack
Peter Gilroy
Matt Beard
Tom Veiga
Spencer Reynolds
Shan Jiang
Oppression
Paulo Sergio Saffaa
Dawn Okoro
Najeebah Al-Ghadban
Michael Ray Charles
Shazia Sikander