THINK block 2

By smilesmcfluff
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    Leonardo Da Vinci (15/04/1452-02/05/1519)

    Best known for his revolutionary studies of the bodily proportions and his futuristic inventions

  • Piet Mondriaan (07/05/1872-01/02/1944)

    A Dutch artist who is famous for his abstract painting, which showed the abstraction of the everyday life around him.

  • Charles Baudelaire (09/04/1821-31/08/1867)

    An art critic with strong ideas about the salon and the art world

  • Gustave Courbet (10/06/1819-31/12/1877)

    the leader of the realism painting movement.

  • Karl Marx (05/05/1818-14/03/1883)

    A philosopher, historian and politician. Best known for his way of thinking, marxism. This this way of thinking was an inspiration to Aldof Hitler

  • Eduart Manet (23/01/1832-13/04/1883)

    One of the first french modernistic painters.

  • Charles Darwin (12/02/1809-19/04/1884)

    An english geologist. best known for his revolutionary evolution theory.

  • Berthe Morisot (14/01/1841-02/03/1895)

    One of the first female impressionistic painters.

  • William Morris (23/03/1834-03/10/1896)

    A great defender of the importance of the arts and crafts movement.

  • Friedrich Nietsche (15/10/1844- 25/08/1900)

    An influential german philosopher and poet among many other things. he saw himself as the doctor who would heal all of humanity.

  • Jean-leon Gerome (11/05/1824-10/01/1904)

    one of the most influential painter's of the academic time period.

  • Umberto Boccioni (19/10/1882-17/08/1917)

    An influential painter and sculpture in the movement of futurism.

  • Edgar Degas (19/07/1834-27/09/1917)

    known as one of the founders of the impressionistic movement.

  • Claude Monet (14/11/1840-05/12/1926)

    one of the founders of the french impressionistic movement.

  • Kazimir Malevich (23/02/1897-15/05/1935)

    An avant-garde artist with profound interest in geometry shapes

  • Sigmund Freud (06/05/1856-23/09/1939)

    An Austrian who set the foundation of then modern day psychoanalysis.

  • George Collingwood (20/02/1889-09/01/1943)

    An English philosopher best known for his ideas in the history of arts.

  • Benedetto Croce (25/02/1866-20/11/1952)

    An Italian writer who mainly wrote about his liberalistic and fascistic ideas.

  • Jackson Pollock (28/01/1912-11/08/1956)

    An American artist with a large influence on the abstract impressionistic movement.

  • Marcel Duchamp (28/07/1887-02/10/1968)

    an artist who provoked a turning point in the modern arts movement.

  • Pablo Picasso (25/10/1881-08/04/1973)

    A painter and sculptor with large influence on the cubist movement.

  • Hannah Arendt (14/10/1906-04/12/1975)

    A German politician who had a big influence in the trials of ss-leaders after the second world war.

  • Andy Warhol (06/08/1928-22/02/1987)

    An American artist with a large influence on the modernistic pop-art movement.

  • Allan Kaprow (23/08/1927-05/04/2006)

    An artist who is considered the pointeer of the performance art.