A-Z: Art

The practice of designing buildings

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Artist who painted "The Birth of Venus"

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American artist known for his colourful mobiles

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French artist who often painted ballet dancers

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First name of the painter of "The Scream"

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A style of painting and an art movement led by André Derain and Henri Matisse at the start of the 20th century, named after the French for wild beasts.

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Modern type of art that Bansky is well known for

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Japanese painter who is famous for his painting of a large wave

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Term for a religious painting often of Jesus Christ or saints

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First name of the painter of "The Girl with a Pearl Earring"

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Russian painter, born in 1866, whose first name was Wassily

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First name of one of the most famous Italian Renaissance painters

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Dutch painter, of "Broadway Boogie Woogie"

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English surrealist painter and war artist

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American female artist, particularly associated with New Mexico

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Abstract Expressionist American painter

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First name of the famous illustrator of Roald Dahl books, surname Blake

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Famous French Impressionist painter of Les Parapluies (The Umbrellas)

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English 20th Century painter, whose works include the painting "The Resurrection, Cookham"

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English 19th century painter of "The Fighting Temeraire"

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Italian painter of "St George and the Dragon"

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Dutch painter, famously the subject of a Don MacLean song

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20th century Pop Art pioneer

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One of the scientific techniques used to examine pigment and canvases of paintings to help in conservation, identifying forgeries etc

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Surname of Jack B, an Irish painter, and his brother William B, poet

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A deep blue pigment obtained by roasting cobalt ore, used on stained glass

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