FORM FOLLOWS FICTION

1. Claude Monet
Oscar Claude Monet
Born: November 14, 1840; Paris, France
Died: December 5, 1926; Giverny, France
Nationality: French
Art Movement: Impressionism
Field: painting
Influenced by: Gustave Courbet, Charles-Francois Daubigny, John
Constable, J.M.W. Turner, Jean-Francois Millet, Alfred Sisley, Jacob van
Ruisdael, Johannes Vermeer
Influenced on: Childe Hassam, Robert Delaunay, Wassily Kandinsky,
Frank W. Benson, Frederick McCubbin, Theodore Robinson
Teachers: Eugene Boudin, Charles Gleyre
 Founder of French Impressionist painting. Impressionism is a style of art that showcases natural light, movement,
and moments.
 His father wanted him in the grocery business, but he entered Le Havre art school, and then met Eugene Bouldin,
who taught him en plein air painting. En plein air painting is the act of painting outdoors with the artist's subject
in full view
 Went to Paris and painted what he saw outside the window.
 At 21 he joined the First Regiment of African Light Calvary in Algeria, but he got typhoid fever and returned to
Paris to study art along with Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Frederic Bazille and Alfred Sisley
 At the start of the Franco-Prussian War, Monet fled to England and traveled to the Netherlands before returning
home
 He lost his wife after the birth of their second child, and vowed to never live in poverty, creating great paintings
and making enough to move into a large house with a garden
 Monet was very inspired by his gardens, and had a large amount of botanical books. His only surviving child after
his death was Michel, heir to the property which is now open to the public, including the vast gardens

2. A Reversible Anthropomorphic Portrait of a Man Composed of Fruit

Giuseppe Arcimboldo: Giuseppe Arcimboldo (also spelled Arcimboldi; 1527 - July 11, 1593) was an Italian painter
best known for creating imaginative portrait heads made entirely of such objects as fruits, vegetables, flowers, fish,
and books - that is, he painted representations of these objects on the canvas arranged in such a way that the whole
collection of objects formed a recognisable likeness of the portrait subject.

 A reversible anthropomorphic
portrait of a man composed of fruit
 Shows a basket of fruit that when
flipped shows a man’s face
3.
4. Aerial Rotating House Albert Robida (1883)

Albert Robida (14 May 1848 – 11 October

1926) was a French illustrator, etcher,
lithographer, caricaturist, and novelist. He edited
and published La Caricature magazine for 12
years. Through the 1880s he wrote an acclaimed
trilogy of futuristic novels. In the 1900s he
created 520 illustrations for Pierre Giffard's
weekly serial La Guerre Infernale.
5. Late Visitors to Pompeii | Carel Wilink (1931)
Albert Carel Willink (7 March 1900 – 19
October 1983) was a well known Dutch
painter who called his style of Magic realism
"imaginary realism". Willink's earliest
paintings were in an expressionist manner,
although he also painted abstract works at
the time that he exhibited with the
November group in 1923. By 1924 he had
adopted a figurative style influenced by
Picasso's neoclassical paintings of the early
1920s, and especially by Léger. Later in the
decade, Willink developed a magic realist st.

6. Our Lady of the Iguanas | Graciela Iturbide (1979)

Graciela Iturbide is one of the best-known Mexican photographers of the

last four decades.

7. The Strolling Saint | Pedro Meyer (1991)

Pedro Meyer (b. 1935, Community of Madrid, Spain) is the founder and president of the Consejo Mexicano de
Fotografía (Mexican Council of Photography) and organizer of the first three Latin American Photography
Colloquiums. His work has been exhibited in hundreds of museums worldwide and is in the permanent
collections of The National Art Museum of China, Beijing; The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; The
 Victoria and Albert Museum, London; The Musee National D’art Moderne Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris;
The International Center of Photography, New York; and many others. He is a recipient of a Guggenheim
Fellowship and the first Rockefeller Foundation grant to be awarded to an online project.

8. The Romantic Dollarscape | Pedro Alvarez (2003)

 Shows a scene like in Egypt with the pyramid, but is tinted green and the sphynx is actually Washington, so
looks like a dollar bill
 Shows tourists and guides admiring the scene
 Álvarez worked as an art teacher in Cuba, Spain and the United States.
 His first solo exhibition was held in 1985 at the Universal Art Gallery in Trinidad, Cuba. Later, important
exhibitions of his work include La canción del amor (The Love Song) at the Center for the Development of
Visual Arts in Havana, 1995; Spanish Painting and Art Nuevo Suizo (with Ezequiel Suárez) at Aglutinador
Space Gallery in Havana, 1998; The History of Cuban Art has been told at La Casona Gallery in Havana,
2000; On the Panamerican Highway at Track 16 Gallery in Santa Monica, California, 2000; and African
Abstract y otras pinturas románticas (African Abstract and Other Romantic Paintings) at Habana Gallery,
2003.
 His works are part of public and private collections such as the National Museum of Fine Arts in Havana; the
Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporaneo in Seville, Spain; the Ortega y Gasset Foundation in Madrid, Spain;
the Ludwig Forum für Internationale Kunst in Aachen, Germany; the Fort Lauderdale Museum of Art in Fort
Lauderdale, Florida; the Arizona State University Art Museum in Tempe, Arizona; the Patchett Collection in
California; and the Farber Collection in New York.
 His death under mysterious circumstances occurred a few days after opening his solo exhibition Lanscape in
the Fireplace at the Arizona State University Art Museum, in 2004.

9. Weirdos of Another Universe | Avery Gibbs (2023)

  A series of paintings about an alternate universe where a few humans managed to enter an alien world
 About the feeling of being an alien in another world, gradually exploring and getting used to it

10. Campbell’s Soup Cans | Andy Warhol (1962)

 32 nearly identical drawings of Cambell’s Soup Cans

 Only difference is the flavour written on it. using a combination of projection, tracing, painting, and stamping.
 He said he drew it because it’s what he ate for such a long time every day for lunch. It’s about for twenty years

11. Liberation of Aunt Jemima & Liberation of Aunt Jemima: Cocktail | Betye Saar (1973)

 Took a bunch of racist memorabilia and put it together in a small box to make an empowering statement
 A pencil for the mammy doll was replaced with a gun, while the notepad was replaced with a postcard
reflecting the sexual abuse of enslaved women
 At the back of the box are old Aunt Jemima labels
 Takes a vintage Gallo wine jug with symbols of protest, such as a black fist at the back of the jug, and an
Aunt Jemima label at the front
12. Kawsbob | Kaws (2010)
 Shows a Spongebob face in 3 different colors reflecting emotions
 Yellow is happy, black is… dead? and red is sort of crazy
 Close up just of the face

13. Charlie Brown Firestarter | Banksy (2010)

 Drawn on a wall on the street of Charlie Brown with a ciggarette pouring gasoline
 Made in run up to the Oscars
 Done on the side of a burnt building outside of LA
 Just a couple days later it was cut out
14. Life, Miracle Whip and Premium | Brendan O'Connell (2013)

 Paints things from supermarkets, now focusing on one brand at a time

 Though he’s best known for paintings scenes from inside Walmart stores O’Connell tells TIME that part of
the reason for his interest in these subjects is consumer interest: his work isn’t cheap — $1,000 is the very
low end — but art buyers are willing to splurge in order to be able to hang an un-ironic painting of their
favorite steak sauce, to take an example. (That’s partly why, starting Jan. 18, he’s launching an online
gallery from his website; demand has been so high that his old sales system doesn’t cut it anymore.)