Artist #13- Paul Cezanne

Paul Cezanne (1839-1906)
Paul Cezanne was a French artist and Post-Impressionist painter whose work laid the foundations of the transition from the 19th century conception of artistic endeavor to a new and radically different world of art in the 20th century. Cezanne's work demonstrated a mastery of design, color, composition, and draftsmanship. Most of his brushstrokes throughout his work are very repetitive, and easily recognizable. His art field is painting with a Post-Impressionist movement. Some of his most famous works were The Basket of Apples, Boy in a Red Vest, Mill at the River, and many many more. Cezanne died from pneumonia on October 22, 1906.

Artist #12- Wassily Kandinsky

Wassily Kandinsky (1866-1944)
Wassily was a Russian painter, and art theorist. He is credited for painting the first modern abstract works. Kandinsky got his training through the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich. Expressionism and abstract art were the movements that he was categorized in with his artworks. Wassily painted artworks known as On White II, Der Blaue Reiter, Composition VII, and plenty more.

Artist #11- Peter Paul Rubens

Sir Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640)
Peter Rubens was a prolific seventeenth-century Flemish Baroque painter. He was also a major component of an extravagant Baroque style that emphasized movement, color, and sensuality. The Elevation of the Cross, The Fall of Man, and The Exchange of Princesses were some of Peter's paintings. Rubens was well known for his Counter-Reformation altarpieces, portraits, landscapes, and history paintings of mythological and allegorical subjects. Sir Peter was a classically-educated humanist scholar, art collector, and diplomat who was knighted by both Philip IV (King of Spain), and Charles I (King of England). His movement of work was Baroque, with a field of painting and diplomacy. Rubens influences consisted of Michelangelo, Titian, Caravaggio, and Pieter Bruegel the Elder. Later in life, Ruben died of gout on May 30, 1640.

Artist #10- Alfred Stieglitz

Alfred Stieglitz (1864-1946)
Alfred was an American photographer and modern art promoter who was instrumental over his fifty-year career in photography an accepted art form. He was married to painter Georgia O' Keeffe. Stieglitz is primarily known for the New York art galleries that he ran in the early part of the 20th century. His famous works consisted of The Hand of Man, Dirigible, and Old and New New York. One of his well known quotes out there today is "Photography is a fad well-nigh on it's last legs, thanks principally to the bicycle craze." Alfred Stieglitz died next to Georgia O' Keeffe from a fatal stroke, that later put him into a coma.

Artist #9- Rembrandt

Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn (1606-1669)
Rembrandt was a Dutch painter and etcher. He is generally considered one of the greatest painters and printmakers in European art history and the most important in Dutch history. All of his contributions to art came in a period that historians like to call the Dutch Golden Age. But the more common movement the Rembrandt was categorized into is called the Dutch Golden Age painting Baroque. Some of his famous pieces were Night Watch, Danae, Belshazzar's Feast, etc. In the last of his years, Rembrandt painted his most deeply reflective self-portraits and several moving images of both men and women - in love, in life, and before God.

Artist #8- Michelangelo

Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni (1475-1564)
Michelangelo was an Italian Renaissance painter, sculptor, architect, poet, and engineer. He started off his early life as an apprentice to Domenico Ghirlandaio, but later worked his way up to the consideration of being the contender for the title of archetypal Renaissance man; along with his rival and fellow Italian Leonardo da Vinci. Some of Michelangelo's works were David, The Creation of Adam, Pieta, etc. Due to being an all around artist, Michelangelo himself is the best-documented artist of the 16th century.

Artist #7- Andy Warhol

Andy Warhol (1928-1987)
Andy Warhol was an American painter, printmaker, and filmmaker who was a leading figure in the visual art movement known as pop art. Some of these works were Chelsea Girls (film), Exploding Plastic Inevitable, and Campbell's Soup Cans. The highest price ever paid for a Warhol painting is $100 million for a 1963 canvas titled Eight Elvises. Andy died in New York City from a sudden post-operative cardiac arrhythmia on February 22 1987.

Artist #6- Georgia O' Keeffe

Georgia O' Keeffe (1887-1986)
Georgia O' Keeffe was an American artist, and a major figure in American art in the 1920's. She was known for breaking the boundaries of modern American artistic style. Georgia is well known for paintings of flowers, rocks, shells, animal bones, and different landscapes. Some artworks she created were Blue and Green Music, Ram's Head White Hollyhock and Little Hills, No.13 Special, and plenty more. Her only field of study was painting, and she showed the viewers why she stuck with it throughout her life. With her influence, Arthur Wesley Dow, she was able to create magnificent pieces that helped transform art in a different level. O' Keeffe moved to Santa Fe, where she died on March 6 1986.

Artist #5- Claude Monet

Claude Monet (1840-1926)
Monet was the founder of French impressionist painting. His main expertise was painting, and he easily showed why. Claude helped bring the term "Impressionism" by the title of one of his paintings; Impression, Sunrise. Monet created many gorgeous artworks; some of his well known pieces were Impression Sunrise, Rouen Cathedral series, London Parliament series, Water Lilies, and many more. Claude Monet died of lung cancer on December 5 1926.

Artist #4- Henri Matisse

Henri Matisse (1869-1954)
Henri Matisse was a French artist known for his use of color and his original draughtsmanship. He was a druaghtsman, printmaker, and sculptor, but his primary was painting. Matisse is regarded, along with Picasso and Marcel Duchamp, as one of the three seminal artists of the 20th century. Henri was initially labeled as Fauve (wild beast), by the 1920's, he was increasingly hailed as an upholder of the classical tradition in French painting. The movements Henri was categorized in was Fauvism and Modernism art. Some of his works included was Woman with a Hat, The Dessert: Harmony in Red, Woman Reading, etc. Matisse died from a heart attack at the age of 84, and is buried in the cemetery of the Monastere Notre Dame de Cimiez.

Artist #3- Vincent van Gogh

Vincent Willem van Gogh (1853-1890)
Van Gogh was a Dutch post-Impressionist painter whose work had a far-reaching influence on the 20th century art for it's vivid colors and emotional impact. His only expertise in art was painting, and he gave many viewers a different taste in what art is. Some of his well known works were The Potato Eaters, Sunflowers, The Starry Night... Van Gogh struggled through depression, and he ended up walking out to a field and shot himself in the chest with a revolver. He survived the impact, but the injury was fatal. Theo Van Gogh's (Vincent's brother) last words was "La tristeese durera toujours" (the sadness will last forever).

Artist #2- Pablo Picasso

Pablo Picasso (1881-1973)
Picasso was a Spanish painter, draughtsman, and sculptor. He is best known for co-founding the Cubist movement and for the wide variety of styles embodied in his work. Some of his most famous works are the proto-Cubist Les Demoiselles d' Avignon (1907), Guernica (1937), The Weeping Woman (1937), and many more... Pablo's area of field consisted of painting, drawing, sculpting, printmaking, and ceramics. Before Pablo Picasso died, his final words were "Drink to me, drink to my health, you know I can't drink anymore."

Nothing Gold Can Stay #7 (The Beginning & End)

Nothing Gold Can Stay #7 (The Beginning & End)
This Book Art Collage I created is very close and inspirational in my life. Overall this piece really brings out myself as an artist, who I am, and what I've been through; kind of like my past, present and future. I recreated the Holy Bible into my Life Bible by using a cover of the Holy Bible, and putting it with my accordion pages. When you open the book it looks like there pages from the bible with the scriptures names, etc. But the only difference is inside are pictures from my life that go with sayings underneath the photographs. After I completed the piece it felt like it was missing something by being so precious and meaningful. So I ended up making a case for the Bible to go in to make it seem that much more important. The reason why I title this artwork The Beginning & End is because in the Bible it says that Jesus Christ is the beginning and end, and only He knows your life.

Nothing Gold Can Stay #6 (Growing Season)

Nothing Gold Can Stay #6 (Growing Season)
Growing Season is portraying the fact that this is just the beginning of what we call earth. Our technology is still advancing, and our world is still growing every second. Along with it though we are leaving behind the old, and bringing in the new. Slowly we are all losing the point in time how we got to where we are now; just like how we see plants, flowers, tree's, etc. This is how I came about the title Growing Season. This art piece is another collage, but it's one picture cut up into strips and is laid on top of another photograph. The end result makes this sort of surreal artwork that creates a new/different meaning.

Nothing Gold Can Stay #5 (Reborn)

Nothing Gold Can Stay #5 (Reborn)
This collage art piece is two separate photographs merged into one. I was going for a sense of forgiveness and brand new with our world. We're not all perfect and we all make mistakes in our lives, but we all have the choice to be reborn and start fresh. The picture on the right is supposed to represent the darkness of the sun (the mistake), and the silhouette photograph on the right shows our forgiveness and moving on to a better pathway. Without either or of these two photographs I couldn't give this emotion to my viewers.

Book Art: Instant Content List

Book Art Ideas:
The names of Pets I know or Have known:
King (Goldfish), Pachese (Cat), Sally (Leopard Gecko), Rose (Rose-Haired Trantula), Zeke (Black Lab)...

10 Different Apples:
White Apples, Fuji Apples, Gala Apples, Golden Delicious Apples, Granny Smith Apples, Red Delicious Apples, Jonathan Apples, Ida Red Apples, Rome Beautie Apples, and Winesap Apples...

Scars And How I Got Them:
Ankle-spiked in a cross country race.
Elbows-sliding into 3rd base in baseball.
Shoulder-from hitting the bottom of a pool.
Chin/Lip-going over my bike chin first into the ground; tooth went through my bottom lip.
Hand-being spiked in a cross country race when i was getting up from being pushed over.

A Peck of Gold

A Peck of Gold:

Dust always blowing about the town, Except when sea-fog laid it down, And I was one of the children told Some of the blowing dust was gold. All the dust the wind blew high Appeared like gold in the sunset sky, But I was one of the children told Some of the dust was really gold. Such was life in the Golden Gate: Gold dusted all we drank and ate, And I was one of the children told, 'We all must eat our peck of gold.'

Nothing Gold Can Stay #3 (Alice in Wonderlands New Clock)

Nothing Gold Can Stay #3 (Alice in Wonderland's New Clock)
Finished piece for my transformation project! I transformed playing cards into a mechanical working clock. I used a circular board for the base while all the rest was cards. Of course I had to buy the clock workings (the hands and battery). In the middle of the clock was suppossed to seem like someone was throwing cards at your face (like the cards are jumping out of the clock) but I decided it would be too much. So instead i broke the glass mirror into pieces and used that as the middle. The mirror takes in the surroundings lights where the clock sets, as well when someone walks up to the mirror and tries to see themself all the viewer see's is parts of themselves because of the cracks. I'm trying to resemble that life is not perfect, nor will it ever be! That when you look in the glass your seeing something different; that being different is what makes life so extrodinary and fulfilling. The reason I call it Alice in Wonderland's New Clock is because; One, the queen in the movie has power over the playing cards. Two, time was a priority in the movie. And Third, the movie portrayed a sense of weird, strange, and difference. When you look at my clock its not perfect; the numbers on the clock aren't lined up, the clock is not a perfect circle, nore is the time a hundred percent accurrate. All the descriptions and views on my clock bring out that weird dream like the movie Alice in Wonderland.