Georgia O'Keefe
(1887-1986)
Georgia O'Keefe found her artistic inspiration in nature. She painted close-up pictures of flowers that filled the entire canvas. She is also famous for her depictions of desert landscapes of the American West.

Henri Rousseau
(1844-1910)
Henri Rousseau was a self taught artist who showed a lively imagination in his work. He painted scenes from Paris (which he knew well) as well as jungle scenes using his imagination. He became known as "The Master of the Trees" despite the fact that his work was criticized heavily by the art critics of his time. Besides being an artist, he was also a poet, musician, and play write.

Salvador Dali
(1904-1989)
Dali was a Spanish surrealist painter whose bizarre paintings include pictures of melting clocks and dream-like landscapes. Surrealists created an art form based on the subconscious mind where rules don't apply and anything can happen.

Leonardo da Vinci
(1452-1519)
One ofthe best examples of a "Renaissance Man". Leonardo da Vinci was a great artist, a scientist, an architect, a writer, a musician and an inventor. He is known for his incredible studies of the human body and his anticipation of modern inventions.

Andy Warhol
(1928-1987)
Andy Warhol was a commercial illustrator who made art from massed produced items and also mass produced his own art. He used popular cultural images and portraits of celebrities, often in repeated sequences, to fill his canvases.

Faith Ringgold
(1930 - ?)
Faith Ringgold is a living artist who is known for her book illustrations, story quilts, paintings and soft sculptures. She is heavily influenced by the traditional quilts made by African slaves and by African-American folk-tales and history. Her most famous works typically incorporate painting and quilting into one visually impressive medium.

Incas, Mayans, Aztecs
(1500 B.C. - 300 A.D.)
Prior to the arrival of the Spanish around 1500, the Mesoamericans developed cultures rich with architecture, jewelry, iconography, masks, carved monuments/statues, hieroglyphs and other examples of many artistic endeavers.