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1. Portrait Masters to Inspire Study
Glenn Hirsch, Instructor

2. what is style?

3. Vincent Van Gogh
Dutch, 1853-1890
Along with the other Impressionists, Van Gogh merged
traditional European ‘realism’ with the brightly colored,
patterned art of Japan’s U-kyoe art.
Almost immediately following his death, his work had a
huge impact on artists around the world.

8. Ferdinand Hodler
Swiss , 1853-1918
His style was a combination of symbolism and art nouveau that
emphasized the symmetry and rhythm he believed formed the
basis of human society.
Figures are often symmetrically arranged in poses suggestive of
ritual or dance.

13. Eugene Delacroix
French, 1798-1863
Delacroix's use of expressive brush and his study of the
optical effects of color profoundly shaped the work of the
Impressionists two generations later.
He emphasized color and movement rather than clarity of
outline and a carefully modeled form.
Delacroix was also inspired by Lord Byron, with whom he
shared a love of the sublime – peak moments of passion or
violence experienced in Nature.

21. John Singer Sargent
American, 1856-1925
Sargent is considered the leading portrait painter of his
generation for his evocation of Edwardian luxury.
He created 900 oil paintings and more than 2,000
watercolors and countless sketches and charcoal drawings.
His work documents his travels – Venice, the Tyrol, Corfu, the
Middle East, Montana, Maine, and Florida.

28. Mary Cassatt
American, 1884-1926
Cassatt lived much of her adult life in France,
where she first befriended Edgar Degas and
later exhibited among the Impressionists.
Cassatt often created images of the social and
private lives of women, with particular
emphasis on the intimate bond between
mothers and children.

35. Egon Schiele
Austrian, 1890-1918
Schiele was a protégé of Gustav Klimt and a major figurative painter
of the early 20th century.
His work is noted for its intensity.
The twisted body shapes and the expressive line that characterize
Schiele's art pioneered the extreme emotion of German
Expressionism.

41. Edvard Munch
Norwegian, 1863-1944
Munch's intensely evocative treatment of psychological
themes built upon some of the main tenets of late 19th-
century Symbolism and greatly influenced German
Expressionism in the early 20th century.

48. Max Beckmann
German, 1884-1950
Beckmann was a painter, printmaker and
sculptor shaped by his war experience in
World War I and the rise of fascism afterward.
In the 1920s, he was associated with the New
Objectivity movement, an outgrowth of
Expressionism that opposed its introverted
emotionalism in favor of satire and myth.

55. Amedeo Modigliani
Italian, 1884-1920
Modigliani is known for portraits and nudes in
a style characterized by elongation of faces and
figures, influenced by African art and cubism.

62. Edward Hopper
American, 1882-1967
Hopper worked in oil, watercolor and
printmaking (etching).
His style combines realism, Cubist geometric
influences depicting moments of solitude in
the city or country.