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Museum Visit & Magazine Weaving (ICA SF)

Museum Visit & Print- Making (Legion of Honor, Mary Cassatt)

Museum Visit & (SF MOMA)

Museum Visit & (ICA SF

Museum Visit & (Sonoma Valley Museum of Art)


Artists we have learned about & been inspired by (so far)...posts coming soon, in no particular order (we started these in 2023):

Franz Marc - blue horses

Seurat - pointillism

Escher - tessellation

Van Gogh - Starry Night & flowers

Monet - water lilies

Michelangelo - art on our backs

Pollock - drip and splatter

O'Keeffe - landscapes/flowers

Kandinsky - circles

Klee - shapes

Warhol - repeat images/pop art

Picasso - faces

Yayoi Kusama - pumpkins

Frida Kahlo - self portraits

Ruth Asawa - sculptures

Da Vinci - helicopters, mirror, Vitruvian man, optical illusion

Emily Carr - trees

Dali - melting clocks

Botticelli - coloring pages

Klimt - tree of life

Keith Haring - people

Matisse - glue shapes

Lichtenstein - comic

Joan Miro - shapes

Laurel Burch - cats

George Rodrigue - dog

Andy Goldsworthy - tree line, nature art

Wayne Thiebaud - cake/jellyroll and shadows

Piet Mondrian - tape art

Cezanne - fruit

Debuffet - faces

Edgar Degas - ballerinas

Sonia Delaunay - shapes/circles

Amedeo Modigliani - portraits - long

Hokusai - The Great Wave

Rousseau - tiger/jungle

Homer - boats

Helen Frankenthaler - colors

Hundertmasser - landscapes

Marc Chagall - pastel landscapes

Alexander Calder - stabile sculptures

Romero Britto - apple, cat, dog

Rene Magritte - clouds and sky

Mary Cassatt - print making

Nancy Genn - orchard, waterfall, gestural abstraction

Jim Dine - hearts

Tamara de Lempicka - art deco

Jeffrey Lynn Koons - balloon dog statues

Christophe Louis (Quibe) - single-line drawings

Charles M. Schulz - Snoopy and Peanuts cartoons

Tyler Foust

Grant Wood

Robert Rauschenbery

Liz Hickok

Willem De Kooning

Mark Rothko

Jean Michel Basquiat

Jasper Johns

James Goldcrown

Lorna Simpson

Alma Thomas

Faith Ringgold

Jacob Lawrence

Bernice Abbott

Norman Rockwell

Rembrandt

Ted Harrison

Renoir

Dorothea Lange

Man Ray

Jan Vermeer

Mimar Sinan

Edwards Hopper

Mr. Doodle aka Sam Cox




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