America has produced many famous artists over the past 200 years including painters, sculptors and many more. The painters have included Lichtenstein and Warhol from the Pop Art movement plus the likes of Motherwell and Pollock who have progressed abstract expressionist art. This article covers American art in full and discusses all the most famous American artists.
Roy Lichtenstein produced a cartoon style of art that is incredibly contemporary even today, whilst Warhol produced another form of Pop art which involved famous celebrities as his "Warhol Stars". Their famous modern art prints included Turquoise Marilyn, Elvis, Electric Chair, Mao Tse-tung, Flowers, 100 Campbell Soup Cans, Girl With Hair Ribbon, Drowning Girl, Whaam!, Blam, M-Maybe, Kiss V, Seductive Girl, Ohhh... Alright..., Thinking of Him and Still Life with Crystal Bowl Peace Through Chemistry.
Abstract expressionists like Motherwell and most notably Jackson Pollock chose to challenge accepted artistic academic traditions head on with their emotional, carefree approaches that included classic paintings like No. 5, Number 1, Lucifer and Convergence. Willem de Kooning is a Dutch American artist who also followed similar methodology.
Winslow Homer, John Singer Sargent and James Whistler offered a more traditional approach with classic portraits, landscapes and seascapes that continue to attract the American art crowd of an older age or with a greater interest in the methods of these styles of painting.
Georgia O'Keeffe and Edward Hopper are two further famous American artists who are also worth studying, and both have major impacts on the art world themselves. Georgia O'Keeffe was one of the most famous female artists in America and produced much loved paintings of flowers that are still very popular today as reproduction prints. Edward Hopper, with classics like Nighthawks, has established himself as one of the greatest realism painters ever and his works have proven charm that also retains it's popularity in his native American market.
Roy Lichtenstein produced a cartoon style of art that is incredibly contemporary even today, whilst Warhol produced another form of Pop art which involved famous celebrities as his "Warhol Stars". Their famous modern art prints included Turquoise Marilyn, Elvis, Electric Chair, Mao Tse-tung, Flowers, 100 Campbell Soup Cans, Girl With Hair Ribbon, Drowning Girl, Whaam!, Blam, M-Maybe, Kiss V, Seductive Girl, Ohhh... Alright..., Thinking of Him and Still Life with Crystal Bowl Peace Through Chemistry.
Abstract expressionists like Motherwell and most notably Jackson Pollock chose to challenge accepted artistic academic traditions head on with their emotional, carefree approaches that included classic paintings like No. 5, Number 1, Lucifer and Convergence. Willem de Kooning is a Dutch American artist who also followed similar methodology.
Winslow Homer, John Singer Sargent and James Whistler offered a more traditional approach with classic portraits, landscapes and seascapes that continue to attract the American art crowd of an older age or with a greater interest in the methods of these styles of painting.
Georgia O'Keeffe and Edward Hopper are two further famous American artists who are also worth studying, and both have major impacts on the art world themselves. Georgia O'Keeffe was one of the most famous female artists in America and produced much loved paintings of flowers that are still very popular today as reproduction prints. Edward Hopper, with classics like Nighthawks, has established himself as one of the greatest realism painters ever and his works have proven charm that also retains it's popularity in his native American market.