Towns and cities Richard Estes
Stephen Wiltshire- Autistic artist who draws entire cities in complete accurate detail from memory!
Colourful city scapes - Karl Haglund
Laura Barnard
Reflections Diego Velazquez- Las Meninas The King and Queen (parents) reflected showing their power and influence whilst not taking the limelight.
Pol Bury
M.C Escher
Paul Nash- Landscape of a dream
Reflectionswater
David Hockney- Patterns of light reflecting on water
Georges Seurat
Claude Monet- London paintings
Richard Wilson Akseli Gallen-Kallela
Reflections- the artist including their own reflection Manet- Bar at the Folies Bergere
MC Escher
Jan Van Eyck- Arnolfini portrait.
Grayson Perry- The tomb of the unknown craftsman. A ship made using imprints and recreations of objects from the British Museum.
Tony Cragg- Making art from thrown away plastic items
Objects and artefacts
John Chamberlainmaking sculptures from crushed metal objects such as old car doors
Totem poles play a key role in Native American culture and ritual and could be a starting point for your investigation.
Celtic crossesthese intricately patterned crosses play a significant role in Celtic ritual and tradition
African tribal masks used for ritual and ceremony
Illuminated manuscripts- in medieval times Bibles- the most precious of objectswere often intricately decorated.
Objects and artefacts
Barbara Kruger - social commentator and political aggrivator
Significant events Shephard Faery- Political
Banksy -Political and social Diego Rivera- Mexican Revolution murals
Jose Clemente Orozco, David Alfaro Siqueiros
Light, weather and landscape JMW Turner Andre Derain Claude Monet
Light, weather and landscape Vincent Van Gogh
Thomas Cole
Emil Nolde- Watercolours Graham Sutherland
Aert van der Neer
Light, weather and landscape Andy Goldsworthy- makes temporary land art, in the full knowledge the effects of weather will soon destroy it.
Childe Hassam- focused on rainy scenes Albert Bierstadt