Paul Cezanne: Ginger Jar

France

Paul Cezanne (January 19, 1839- October 22, 1906) was a French post-impressionistic painter.

Germany

Franz Marc: The Blue Horse

Franz Marc (February 8, 1880-March 4, 1916) was a German Expressionist painter. Marc's "Blue Horse 1" (Blaues Pferd I) was painted in 1911.

Mexico

Diego Rivera: Ignacio Sanchez

Diego Rivera Retrato de Ignacio Sanchez, Diego Rivera

Diego Rivera (December 13, 1886-November 24, 1957) was a Mexican painter who produced

many colorful paintings and large-scale murals depicting everyday life in Mexico, often

commemorating workers and peasants.

USA

Wille William Henry Johnson (1901- 1970) was an African-American artist who was associated with

the Harlem Renaissance art movement. Johnson was born in Florence, South Carolina, but as a

teenager, went to study at the National Academy of Design in New York. He painted in France

from 1926 to 1930. When he returned to the USA, he opened a studio in Harlem. Johnson had

his first solo art exhibition in New York in 1941. Johnson's vibrant paintings represent many

subjects, ranginf from scenes from everyday life to historical commemoratives of

African-Americans, like Harriet Tubman, George Washington Carver, and Matthew Henson.

Johnson's "Still Life -- Fruit, Bottles" was painted in 1938-1939.

USA

William Johnson: "Still Life -- Fruit, Bottles"

William Henry Johnson (1901- 1970) was an African-American artist who was associated with the Harlem Renaissance art movement. Johnson was born in Florence, South Carolina, but as a teenager, went to study at the National Academy of Design in New York. He painted in France from 1926 to 1930. When he returned to the USA, he opened a studio in Harlem. Johnson had his first solo art exhibition in New York in 1941. Johnson's vibrant paintings represent many subjects, ranginf from scenes from everyday life to historical commemoratives of African-Americans, like Harriet Tubman, George Washington Carver, and Matthew Henson. Johnson's "Still Life -- Fruit, Bottles" was painted in 1938-1939.

USA

Jacob Lawrence: "Dominoes"

Jacob Lawrence (1917-2000) was an African-American artist who was associated with the Harlem Renaissance art movement. Lawrence was born in Atlantic City, New Jersey, but at 13 years old, moved to New York City, New York, where he studied art. He soon became successful, both artistically and commercially. Lawrence often painted scenes of ordinary life in vibrant colors and with a startling angularity. In 1946, Lawrence said of his philosophy of art, "My belief is that it is most important for an artist to develop an approach and philosophy about life - if he has developed this philosophy he does not put paint on canvas, he puts himself on canvas." Lawrence painted Dominoes in 1958.

USA

Grant Wood: American Gothic

Grant Wood: American Gothic

Grant Wood (February 13, 1892 - February 12, 1942) was an American artist who painted

realistic works. Wood was born and died in Iowa. He studied art in the USA, France, Holland,

and Germany. Wood's "American Gothic" was painted in 1930. Wood's famous painting

depicts a farm couple in front of their farmhouse, which is located in Eldon, Iowa, USA.

USA

Georgia O'Keeffe: Red Poppy

Georgia O'Keeffe (November 15, 1887-March 6, 1986) was an American artist who painted close-ups of flowers, and who also painted themes from the American Southwest.

USA

Georgia O'Keeffe: White Flower on Red Earth

Georgia O'Keeffe (November 15, 1887-March 6, 1986) was an American artist who painted close-ups of flowers, and who also painted themes from the American Southwest.

The Netherlands

Vincent Van Gogh: The Starry Night

Used with permission | © Geoff Slater, KinderArt |

The Netherlands

Van Gogh: Starry Night

Vincent Van Gogh (March 30, 1853-July 29, 1890) was a Dutch painter who used vivid colors

and wild brush strokes in his paintings. Van Gogh's "Starry Night" was painted in 1889.

The Netherlands

Van Gogh: Room at Arles

Vincent Van Gogh (March 30, 1853-July 29, 1890) was a Dutch painter who used vivid colors and wild brush strokes in his paintings. Van Gogh's "Room at Arles" was painted in 1888.

The Netherlands

Van Gogh: Flower Beds in Holland

Vincent Van Gogh (March 30, 1853-July 29, 1890) was a Dutch painter who used vivid colors and wild brush strokes in his paintings. Van Gogh's "Flower Beds in Holland" was painted in 1883.

Mexico

Kahlo: Self Portrait with Monkey (1938)

Magdalena Carmen Frieda Kahlo y Calderon (July 6, 1907-July 13, 1954) was a Mexican artist who painted many self portaits, depicting herself in Mexican dress, often accompanied by her pets and lush vegetation. Kahlo married the artist Diego Rivera in 1929. Kahlo's "Self Portrait with Monkey" was painted in 1938.

Spain

Woman Sitting with Hat

Above is the outline of Picasso's abstract oil painting of a sitting woman wearing a hat.

Pablo Picasso (October 25, 1881 - April 8, 1973) was a Spanish artist who revolutionized painting, drawing, sculpture, and ceramics (pottery). Picasso was born in Malaga, in southern Spain. His father was an artist and art teacher. Picasso was a child prodigy, producing complex artwork at an early age.

During his life, Picasso painted in many styles, including realism, cubism (1906-1918), and other abstract styles.

Pablo Picasso was trained as an artist in Spain, but moved to Paris in 1900, when he was 19 years old. In his early career, Picasso worked and lived in Paris, Barcelona, and Madrid. His early paintings were melancholy and featured the color blue, so this period is referred to as his "blue period."

Picasso's "blue period," (1901 to 1904), was followed by his "rose period," (1904-1906), during which Picasso used warmer colors in his paintings. Later, he helped develop cubism (with his friend Georges Braque), a newly-invented style in which objects were represented by cubes, cones, and cylinders. He also experimented with surrealism (a dream-like style with unexpected juxtapositions), abstraction, collage (attaching bits of paper and other scraps to a canvas), mural painting, sculpture, and ceramics.

Spain

Francisco Goya: "Manuel Osorio Manrique de Zunica"

Francisco Jose de Goya y Lucientes (March 30, 1746-April 16, 1828) was a Spanish painter. Goya's "Don Manuel Osorio Manrique de Zúñiga" is a portrait of a wealthy three-year-old boy in a red suit. He is surrounded by his pets: three cats, a black-and-white magpie on a leash, and caged goldfinches. The cats are lurking behind the boy, ready to pounce on the magpie. The magpie is holding Goya's calling card in its beak. This work was painted around 1788.

Spain

Joan Miro: People and Dog in Sun

Joan Miro (1893-1983) was a Spanish painter and sculptor who produced vivid abstract and surrealistic works of art during much of the 1900s.

His works often have very descriptive titles. Joan Miro's name is pronounced hoän mro.

A copy of Miro's "The Gold of the Azure" Miro was born on April 20, 1893, in Montroig, Spain, which is near the city of Barcelona. His father was a goldsmith and watchmaker. Miro studied art at the School of Fine Arts at La Llotja and at the Academy of Francisco Gali, in Barcelona, Spain. He had his first show at the Dalmau Gallery in 1918; he was 24 years old.

In 1919, he traveled to Paris, France, which was then the center of the art world. He was friends with many surrealist and abstract painters, including Pablo Picasso, Andre Masson and Max Ernst. In France, Miro developed his individualistic and recognizable style and eventually became famous.

After Miro returned to Spain in 1940, he lived mostly in Majorca. He painted, sculpted, worked in ceramics, produced many mosaics and murals, and illustrated over 300 books. Miro lived to be 90 years old, dying on December 25, 1983.

France

Edgar Degas: Singer with a Glove

Hilaire Germain Edgar Degas (July 19, 1834-Sept. 27, 1917) was a French impressionistic painter. Degas' "Singer with a Glove" was painted in 1878.

France

Rene Magritte Apple

Rene Magritte (1898-1967) was a surrealist painter. Magritte's image above pictures a giant green apple dominating a room.

France

Henri Matisse: Jazz, Icarus

Henri Matisse (December 31, 1869-November 3, 1954) was a French impressionist painter. Matisse created the collage "Jazz, Icarus" in 1944, using paper cut-outs.

France

Henri Matisse: The Romanian Blouse

Henri Matisse (December 31, 1869-November 3, 1954) was a French impressionist painter. Matisse's "The Romanian Blouse" was painted in 1940.

France

Claude Monet: Haystack

Claude Monet (1840-1926) was a French impressionist artist who used vivid colors in his paintings. Monet's "Effet de Neige, le Matin" (Morning Snow Effect), was painted in 1891.

France/Hungary

Vasarely: Byss

Victor Vasarely (April 9, 1906-March 19, 1997) was a modern Hungarian/French artist who produced many vibrant Op-art paintings (abstract paintings that used optical illusion and geometrical forms) in the 1960s.

France/Hungary

Vasarely: Zebegen

China

Anonymous: Portrait of Sung Jen-tsung (1500s)

This is a portrait of the Chinese Emperor Sung Jen-tsung. It is a hanging silk scroll, painted in ink and color by an anonymous artist (from 16th century China).

China

Tong Yu (1721 - 1782) was a Chinese painter, sculptor, and poet. The coloring page is based on his ink on silk painting "Prunus Blossoms and Moon," done in 1764.

Japan

Hokusai: View from the Sea of KazusaProvince

Katsushika Hokusai (September 23, 1760-April 18, 1849) was a Japanese painter and printmaker from the Edo Period. He is most famous for his series of prints called "Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji" (produced during the period 1826-1833).

Japan

*The Great Wave Off Kanagawa

From "Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji"; 1823-29 (140 Kb); Color woodcut, 10 x 15 in; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Hokusai, full name Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849), Japanese painter and wood engraver, born in Edo (now Tokyo). He is considered one of the outstanding figures of the Ukiyo-e, or "pictures of the floating world" (everyday life), school of printmaking.

Hokusai entered the studio of his countryman Katsukawa Shunsho in 1775 and there learned the new, popular technique of woodcut printmaking. Between 1796 and 1802 he produced a vast number of book illustrations and color prints, perhaps as many as 30,000, that drew their inspiration from the traditions, legends, and lives of the Japanese people. Hokusai's most typical wood-block prints, silkscreens, and landscape paintings were done between 1830 and 1840. The free curved lines characteristic of his style gradually developed into a series of spirals that imparted the utmost freedom and grace to his work, as in Raiden, the Spirit of Thunder.

In his late works Hokusai used large, broken strokes and a method of coloring that imparted a more somber mood to his work, as in his massive Group of Workmen Building a Boat. Among his best-known works are the 13-volume sketchbook Hokusai manga (begun 1814) and the series of block prints known as the Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji (circa 1826-33).

Hokusai is generally more appreciated in the West than in Japan. His prints, as well as those by other Japanese printmakers, were imported to Paris in the mid-19th century. They were enthusiastically collected, especially by such impressionist artists as Claude Monet, Edgar Degas, and Henri Toulouse-Lautrec, whose work was profoundly influenced by them.

Egypt

Queen Nefertiti

Nefertiti was an Egyptian queen The coloring page above is based upon a 3,300-year-old bust of Queen Nefertiti. Nefertiti was one of the wives of the pharaoh Akhenaton (also called Amenhotep IV); he is known for having changed Egyptian religion to worship a single god, the Sun God (called Aten). The painted limestone work dates from about 1360 BC, during the the18th Egyptian dynasty, the Tell el-Amarna. The bust of Nefertiti was found in 1812 by the German archaeologist Ludwig Borchardt; he found it in Tell al-Amarna, located in southern Egypt. The artwork is in the Berlin's EgyptianMuseum.

Egypt

The Great Sphinx

The Great Sphinx is an enormous, ancient sculpture among several pyramids on the Giza Pleateau, very near Cairo, Egypt. The Sphinx depicts a creature that has the head of a human being and the body of a lion. It is 241 feet long and 66 feet high. It was carved from a single gigantic outcropping of limestone. The Sphinx was carved about 4,600 years ago (circa 2555-2532 BC), during the reign of the pharaoh Khafre, the third ruler of the 4th dynasty; the Sphinx depicts the head of the pharaoh Khafre. The huge statue stands by Khafre's pyramid. The Sphinx has suffered much damage, through the years, mostly from erosion and destruction by soldiers.

Egypt

Egyptian Art: Stele of Taperet

The coloring page above is based on the Stele of Taperet, a painted wood slab from ancient Egypt, about 900-800 B.C. (about 3,000 years ago).