{
 "source": "https://peabody.kids/flashcards/art-famous-artists",
 "id": "art-famous-artists",
 "title": "Famous Artists",
 "category": "arts-music",
 "subject": "Art History",
 "levels": [
  "3-5",
  "6-8",
  "9-12",
  "adult"
 ],
 "description": "Well-known artists, where they came from and what they are known for.",
 "tags": [
  "artists",
  "painters",
  "sculptors"
 ],
 "frontLabel": "Artist",
 "backLabel": "Known for",
 "cards": [
  [
   "Leonardo da Vinci",
   "Italian Renaissance painter, inventor; Mona Lisa and The Last Supper (1452 to 1519)"
  ],
  [
   "Michelangelo",
   "Italian sculptor and painter; David and the Sistine Chapel ceiling (1475 to 1564)"
  ],
  [
   "Raphael",
   "Italian Renaissance painter of The School of Athens"
  ],
  [
   "Sandro Botticelli",
   "Italian painter of The Birth of Venus"
  ],
  [
   "Albrecht Durer",
   "German printmaker and painter of the Renaissance"
  ],
  [
   "Caravaggio",
   "Italian Baroque painter known for dramatic light and dark"
  ],
  [
   "Rembrandt van Rijn",
   "Dutch Golden Age painter famed for portraits and The Night Watch"
  ],
  [
   "Johannes Vermeer",
   "Dutch painter of quiet indoor scenes, such as Girl with a Pearl Earring"
  ],
  [
   "Diego Velazquez",
   "Spanish court painter of Las Meninas"
  ],
  [
   "Francisco Goya",
   "Spanish painter and printmaker"
  ],
  [
   "J.M.W. Turner",
   "British painter of light, sea and skies"
  ],
  [
   "John Constable",
   "British painter of country landscapes like The Hay Wain"
  ],
  [
   "Claude Monet",
   "French Impressionist who painted water lilies and haystacks"
  ],
  [
   "Pierre-Auguste Renoir",
   "French Impressionist of joyful scenes of people"
  ],
  [
   "Edgar Degas",
   "French Impressionist known for dancers"
  ],
  [
   "Mary Cassatt",
   "American Impressionist known for mothers and children"
  ],
  [
   "Berthe Morisot",
   "French Impressionist painter"
  ],
  [
   "Camille Pissarro",
   "French Impressionist landscape painter"
  ],
  [
   "Vincent van Gogh",
   "Dutch Post-Impressionist painter of The Starry Night and sunflowers (1853 to 1890)"
  ],
  [
   "Paul Cezanne",
   "French painter who paved the way for Cubism"
  ],
  [
   "Georges Seurat",
   "French painter who developed pointillism"
  ],
  [
   "Paul Gauguin",
   "French painter who painted in Tahiti"
  ],
  [
   "Henri Matisse",
   "French painter and cut-out artist, leader of Fauvism"
  ],
  [
   "Pablo Picasso",
   "Spanish artist who co-founded Cubism, painted Guernica (1881 to 1973)"
  ],
  [
   "Georges Braque",
   "French artist who co-founded Cubism"
  ],
  [
   "Salvador Dali",
   "Spanish Surrealist famous for The Persistence of Memory"
  ],
  [
   "Rene Magritte",
   "Belgian Surrealist who painted The Son of Man"
  ],
  [
   "Marc Chagall",
   "Russian-French painter of dreamy colorful scenes"
  ],
  [
   "Wassily Kandinsky",
   "Russian painter, pioneer of abstract art"
  ],
  [
   "Piet Mondrian",
   "Dutch painter of grids in primary colors"
  ],
  [
   "Paul Klee",
   "Swiss-German painter of playful, imaginative work"
  ],
  [
   "Edvard Munch",
   "Norwegian painter of The Scream"
  ],
  [
   "Gustav Klimt",
   "Austrian painter of The Kiss"
  ],
  [
   "Jackson Pollock",
   "American painter who dripped paint onto big canvases"
  ],
  [
   "Mark Rothko",
   "American painter of glowing blocks of color"
  ],
  [
   "Georgia O'Keeffe",
   "American painter of flowers, bones and desert landscapes"
  ],
  [
   "Frida Kahlo",
   "Mexican painter famous for self-portraits"
  ],
  [
   "Diego Rivera",
   "Mexican muralist"
  ],
  [
   "Andy Warhol",
   "American Pop artist known for soup cans and portraits"
  ],
  [
   "Roy Lichtenstein",
   "American Pop artist inspired by comic book dots"
  ],
  [
   "Keith Haring",
   "American artist with bold outlined figures"
  ],
  [
   "Jean-Michel Basquiat",
   "American artist who began on New York streets"
  ],
  [
   "Grant Wood",
   "American painter of American Gothic (1930)"
  ],
  [
   "Edward Hopper",
   "American painter of quiet city scenes like Nighthawks"
  ],
  [
   "Norman Rockwell",
   "American illustrator of everyday scenes for magazine covers"
  ],
  [
   "Winslow Homer",
   "American painter of seascapes"
  ],
  [
   "Jacob Lawrence",
   "African American painter of the Migration Series"
  ],
  [
   "Faith Ringgold",
   "African American artist known for story quilts"
  ],
  [
   "Yayoi Kusama",
   "Japanese artist known for polka dots and infinity rooms"
  ],
  [
   "Katsushika Hokusai",
   "Japanese artist of The Great Wave off Kanagawa"
  ],
  [
   "Auguste Rodin",
   "French sculptor of The Thinker"
  ],
  [
   "Alexander Calder",
   "American sculptor who invented mobiles"
  ],
  [
   "Henry Moore",
   "British sculptor of large, smooth, curved forms"
  ],
  [
   "Constantin Brancusi",
   "Romanian sculptor of simple, polished forms"
  ],
  [
   "Alberto Giacometti",
   "Swiss sculptor of tall, thin figures"
  ],
  [
   "Donatello",
   "Italian Renaissance sculptor of the bronze David"
  ],
  [
   "Gian Lorenzo Bernini",
   "Italian Baroque sculptor"
  ],
  [
   "Bridget Riley",
   "British Op Art painter"
  ],
  [
   "Banksy",
   "Anonymous British street artist"
  ],
  [
   "Dale Chihuly",
   "American glass sculptor"
  ],
  [
   "Maya Lin",
   "American artist and architect who designed the Vietnam Veterans Memorial"
  ],
  [
   "Beatrix Potter",
   "English author and illustrator of Peter Rabbit"
  ],
  [
   "Leonardo's famous smile",
   "The Mona Lisa"
  ]
 ]
}