About a week ago I posted a series of ten artists' self-portraits asking readers to identify the artists. Today I'm ending this competition by posting the names of each artist and a little about each one. As I mentioned in the beginning, these are not obscure artists, though some of their portraits seen here may be. To those who have identified all ten artists correctly--congratulations, you may officially deem yourself an art historian. If you got eight out of ten, consider yourself an art appreciator. If you got six out of ten consider yourself lucky. If you got four out of ten, then hurry, beat a path immediately to your nearest art museum. If you got two out of ten maybe you should look at becoming an expert on gold coins with the face of Richard Nixon on them. If you got none of the ten correct, go to the internet, type in "cave painting," and start your art appreciation training from scratch.
(For more about each artist, click on the artists name.)
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| 1623, His nickname might have been "Chipper." Gian Lorenzo Bernini Baroque sculptor |
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| 1629, His first, but certainly not his last... Rembrandt van Rijn Dutch Golden Age portrait artist |
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| 1925, Looking rather bleak... Edward Hopper Americana painter |
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| ca. 1500, A thinker and a doer... Albrecht Durer German painter and etcher |
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| ca. 1600, Talent tempered by a temper... Michelangelo Caravaggio Baroque painter--terrible temper |
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| 1877, A momma's boy James McNeill Whistler American expatriate painter |
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| 1906, Forgers love him... Henri Matisse French Fauvist painter |
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| 1893, Loved topless girls... Paul Gauguin Deserted his family and sailed for Tahiti |
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| 1979, His identity is a closely guarded secret... Chuck Close American Photo-realist |
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| 1866, An American in Paris... Mary Cassatt Impressionist, painter of women and children. |
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