Choose any artist that interests you. Below is an artist list but these are only suggestions; you do not have to choose an artist on this list. Please make sure you can find enough information about your artist to complete the paper.

Please consider the following information. Each artist will have different information. These topics are suggestions, but most should be included in your research on any artist. Approach the biographical information how you choose.

Suggested Biographical Info:

1. Place/date of birth

2. Place/date of death

3. Primary type of artwork (ex: painting? drawing? sculpture? printmaking? ceramics?)

4. Media (materials used?)

5. Style or period of art

6. Short definition of that style or period

7. Interesting/Personal information on the artist

8. Favorite Quote

1. Two (2) other artists who work in the same style (from the time period of the artist - or contemporary artists working in this same style). How is the work similar? How is the work different? Do these artists influence your artist and/or did your artist influence these artists? The artists can be from different time periods.

2. Formal, Expressive or Contextual Critique of at least two works for art by selected artist 

Albrecht Durer

Alexander Calder

Andy Warhol 

Auguste Renoir

Auguste Rodin

Banksy

Barbara Kruger

Cindy Sherman

Claes Oldenburg

Dante Gabriel 

Diego Rivera

Diego Velazquez

Edgar Degas

Edouard Manet 

Edvard Munch

Edward Hopper

Edward Kienholz

Elizabeth Murray

Eugene Delecroix

Francis Bacon

Francisco Goya

Frank Lloyd Wright

Frank Stella

Frida Kahlo