Transcript Greco and Velazquez were court painters.

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This artist used a combination of light and
shadow to give his paintings depth.
He was a court painter for 3 different
Spanish kings.
The love of his life was Gala, the woman
that predominates most of his works.
This artist opened his own museum.
He was not born in Spain but rather on the
island of Crete.
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This artist was the father of Cubism.
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This artist was considered a heretic for the
latter part of his life.
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He is known for painting with icy blues and
vibrant reds.
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This artist opened his own art production
shop in Toledo.
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This artist “borrowed” many other styles
and art paintings for his paintings.
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He painted the destruction of a Spanish
town by the Germans.
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This artist created many works in order to
insult the rich/noble class.
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This artist broke the “norm” by painting
people of color in major political and
religious roles.
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This artist style included organic forms and
flattened picture planes drawn
with sharp lines.
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He probably had a stigmatism, causing him
to elongate all his subjects.
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Although born in Spain, he was exiled to
France to escape the Inquisition.
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This artist liked to paint everyday scenes,
especially still-lifes with eggs.
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This artist was disowned by his father for
saying that he liked to spit on the
painting of his mother.
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This artist never had a really “famous”
work.
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This artist received the Gold Medal of Fine
Arts from the Spanish king Juan
Carlos I.
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Greco and Velazquez were court painters.
Greco liked to paint little people.
Picasso started his blue period after the
death of his long-time friend.
Greco, Velazquez, and Goya are known as
the Great Triumvirate or the “big
3” artists of Spain.
Dali used Cubism, Surrealism, and Dada as
part of his style.
Miró painted himself as God.
Greco, Dalí and Miró are all true modernist
painters.
Goya saw the horrors that Napoleon
brought when he invaded Spain.
Italy was the center of art during the
Renaissance.
France boasted being the most artistically
diverse in the 19th and 20th
centuries.
Goya painted somber moods by using a rose
color.
Greco was predominantly influenced by
realism and Flemish art.
Velazquez and Goya painted portraits of
the royal family.
There was only 1 Inquisition in Spain.
Velazquez used eggs, crutches, and bread
in his paintings.
Miró used dreams to shape his artistic
works.
Dalí said that he was Surrealism.
Goya was deaf.
Greco invented Italian Realism.
Goya and Velazquez attended the Academy
of San Fernando.
The Academy of San Fernando is in Spain.
The Academy of Saint Luke is in Italy.
Picasso married only 1 woman in his life.
Picasso, Dali, and Miró all painted during
the Spanish Civil War, 1930-36.