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Art
Biographical Oneliners
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| one of the key figures of Abstract Expressionism, Time magazine called him "Jack the Dripper" because he dripped and threw paint on the canvas | Pollock |
| painted the "Woman" series | de Kooning |
| born in Pittsburgh, educated at Carnegie Institute of Technology, his studio was "The Factory," he managed the rock band called The Velvet Underground | Warhol |
| one of the founders of earthworks, he created Spiral Jetty | Smithson |
| graduated from Stevens Institute of Technology with a degree in mechanical engineering, known for his mobiles | Calder |
| went bankrupt because of the trial expenses during his lawsuit against John Ruskin | Whistler |
| painter, engraver, and poet | Blake |
| rivals with Reynolds | Gainsborough |
| worked in his father's flour mill, all five of his children became painters | Constable |
| buried his only complete book of poetry with his dead wife; later had to exhume her to get it | Rossetti |
| made large, semi-abstract sculptures of the human figure | Moore |
| a founding member and the first president of the Royal Academy | Reynolds |
| threatened Gauguin with a razor; the same night he cut off his own ear; was in a mental hospital where Dr. Gachet was his psychiatrist; committed suicide | Van Gogh |
| Frenchman who founded Cubism with Picasso | Braque |
| his works have a heavy black live around them | Rouault |
| known for wrapping objects | Christo |
| married to the writer Erskine Caldwell, photographed and reported on World War II for Life magazine | Margaret Bourke White |
| illustrator known for his Saturday Evening Post covers | Rockwell |
| painted his neighbor Helga Testorf | Wyeth |
| photographer of the Civil War | Brady |
| studied anatomy at Jefferson Medical College | Eakins |
| born in Allegheny City (now Pittsburgh), she was an American impressionist influenced by Japanese prints | Cassatt |
| his paintings were based on comic strips | Lichtenstein |
| she began painting at age 67; her real name was Anna Mary Robertson | Grandma Moses |
| born in Sun Prairie, Wisconsin, she was married to photographer Alfred Stieglitz | Georgia O'Keeffe |
| correspondent during the Civil War for Harper's Weekly | Winslow Homer |
| a war correspondent in the Spanish-American War | Remington |
| taught art in the Cedar Rapids public schools and at the University of Iowa | Wood |
| made black and white photographs of the American Wilderness | Adams |
| remembered for color field painting | Rothko |
| the leading painter of the Indians | Catlin |
| nephew of a famous U.S. senator of the same name | Thomas Hart Benton |
| Belgian surrealist painter | Magritte |
| court painter to Charles I | Van Dyck |
| born Jacopo Robusti, his name means "the little dyer" | Tintoretto |
| born in Leiden, bankrupt in 1656, had to sell his art collection | Rembrandt |
| founded the Hudson River School | Thomas Cole |
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