Eye for Art: Focusing on Great Artists and Their Work
an eye for art Focusing on Great Artists and Their Work Presented by the National Gallery of Art
contents Preface 1 Studying Nature 2 John Constable Martin Johnson Heade Claude Monet Georgia O’Keeffe Andy Goldsworthy 2 3 4 Exploring Places 24 Rembrandt van Rijn Canaletto Jasper Francis Cropsey Thomas Moran Henri Matisse André Derain George Bellows Examining Portraits 50 Leonardo da Vinci Élisabeth-Louise Vigée Le Brun Vincent van Gogh Paul Gauguin Chuck Close Telling Stories 68 Fra Angelico and Fra Filippo Lippi Rogier van der Weyden Raphael Peter Paul Rubens John Singleton Copley Augustus Saint-Gaudens Jacob Lawrence 5 Observing Everyday Life 94 Jan Steen Osias Beert the Elder Willem Claesz Heda Édouard Manet Mary Cassatt Winslow Homer Wayne Thiebaud 6 Questioning Traditions 120 Giuseppe Arcimboldo Johannes Vermeer Joseph Mallord William Turner Pablo Picasso Joan Miró Diego Rivera Romare Bearden Jackson Pollock Roy Lichtenstein 7 Playing with Space 158 Edgar Degas Alexander Calder Dan Flavin Martin Puryear Timeline of Artists 176 Acknowledgments 177
