Most Recognizable Works of Art

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Edvard Munch

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“The Scream”

• 1893 • Norwegian • Expressionist painting

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Auguste Rodin

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“The Thinker”

• 1902 completed •

Divine Comedy

of Dante • Represents Poetry and Philosophy • French Sculpture

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Michelangelo

“La Pietà”

• 1499 • Italian painter, sculptor, architect • Renaissance Sculpture

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Michelangelo “Creation of Adam”

• Sistine Chapel, Vatican • between 1508 and 1512

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Michelangelo “David”

• Marble Sculpture • created between 1501 and 1504

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Salvador Dalí

“The Persistence of Memory”

• 1931 • His most recognizable works

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Piet Mondrian

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“Composition II in Yellow, Blue and Red”

• 1937-42 Oil on Canvas • Dutch artist • De Stijl art movement in the Netherlands

Vincent van Gogh

“Self-Portrait”

1889 Oil on Canvas

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Vincent Van Gogh

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“Starry Night”

• 1889 • Dutch • Post-impressionist

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Vincent Van Gogh

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“Café Terrace at Night”

• 1888 • Oil on canvas

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Andy Warhol “Campbell’s Soup I”

• 1968 • Pop Art

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Andy Warhol Lemon Marilyn

• 1962 • Pop art

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Jacques-Louis David “The Oath of the Horatii”

• 1784 • Neoclassic

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Gustav Klimt “The Kiss”

• 1907 • Austrian painter • Art Nouveau

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Leonardo da Vinci “Mona Lisa”

• 1503-1506 • • Renaissance oil painting

Portrait of

Lisa Gherardini

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Paul Jackson Pollock “Convergence”

• 1952 • Oil on canvas • Abstract Expressionist

• Pablo Picasso • The Old Guitarist • 1903 • Oil on panel • Picasso’s Blue Period

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Pablo Picasso “Guernica”

• Spanish • 1937 • 11 x 25.6 ft

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M.C. Escher “Drawing Hands”

• 1948

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Théodore Géricault “The Raft of the Medusa”

• 1818-1819 • Oil painting • French Romantic painter

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Wassily Kandinsky “Transverse Line”

• Oil on canvas • Russian artist

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James McNeill Whistler Whistler’s Mother ( Arrangement in Grey and Black: The Artist's Mother )

• Oil on canvas • American artist

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Francisco de Goya “The Third of May 1808”

• Spanish romantic painter • Completed 1814 • Illustrates the Spanish resistance to Napoleon

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Francisco de Goya Saturn Devouring His Children

• 1819-23 • Based on the Greek myth of the Titan Cronus

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Grant Wood American Gothic

• American art movement • 1930

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The Winged Victory of Samothrace

• Unknown artist • Nike of Samothrace, being a 3rd Century BC marble sculpture of the Greek Goddess of Victory. • between 220 and 190 BC. • Helenistic Period

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Katsushika Hokusai “The Great Wave Off Kanagawa”

• 1823-29 • Japanese artist • Printmaker

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Marcel Duchamp “Fountain”

• 1917 • Found art or readymades

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Henri Matisse

“Portrait of Madame Matisse (the Green Line)”

• 1905 • Oil and Tempra on Canvas

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Jacque-Louis David

“Napolean Crossing the Alps”

1805 Oil on Canvas

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Johannes Vermeer

“Girl with a Pearl Earring”

• Dutch Artist • AKA the Dutch Mona Lisa

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Roy Lichtenstein

“Drowning Girl”

• Pop Art