George Seurat
A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte
took two years to complete. Today, it hangs in the Art Institute of Chicago. Quote: “Some say they see poetry in my paintings; I see only science.”— Georges Seurat
Pablo Picasso
Guernica
Painted in protest of a vicious bombing of the city by the Nazi’s during the Spanish Civil War. A tour of the work brought this war to the world’s attention and has become a perpetual reminder of the tragedies of war.
Wassily Kandinsky
Composition 7
Wassily Kandinsky was a 19th-20th century abstract painter. He was born in Russia but contributed greatly to the German Expressionism Movement and was one of the first modern abstract painters. His works use many shapes and colors and are quite unique.
Claude Monet
Waterlily Pond
This painting is in the National Gallery of Art and shows a Japanese Footbridge over a lily pond, a popular theme in his Impressionist paintings. He began to paint the lily pond in his private garden at Giverny, while he was completing his series of Rouen cathedral. In the last decades of his life, Claude Monet's prized water garden and the footbridge he built over it became his most important - and eventually only - subject.
Vincent van Gogh
Starry Night
"It often seems to me that the night is much more alive and richly colored than the day," van Gogh wrote to his brother Theo in 1888
Sandy Skoglund
Revenge of the Goldfish
American photographer and installation artist.
Skoglund creates surrealist images by building elaborate sets or tableaux, furnishing them with carefully selected colored furniture and other objects, a process of which takes her months to complete. Finally, she photographs the set, complete with actors. The works are characterized by an overwhelming amount of one object and either bright, contrasting colors or a monochromatic color scheme.
Ansel Adams
Moon and Half Dome
Arguably, this is the definitive photograph of Half Dome and among the most famous images of Yosemite National Park . Belying its later worldwide acclaim, "Moon and Half Dome" debuted for a very personal audience: the first publication of this masterpiece was as the wedding announcement for Adams ' son, Michael, and his daughter-in-law, Jeanne in 1962.
Howard Finster
The Lady of the Sky
Finster, a Baptist preacher in Georgia, had left his pulpit for his paintbrush, accepting a new calling to “paint sacred art.” In response to this call, Finster would create nearly 50,000 works – what he called “messages from God” – made out of materials at hand, whether plywood, Plexiglas, or empty turpentine cans, each painted to feature contemporary and biblical scenes, often annotated with scriptures and spiritual admonitions.
Sample of Artwork by Ms. Powers
I have a Bachelors degree in Art Education from Georgia State University with a concentration in Ceramics and In 2010 I completed my Masters degree in Curriculum and Instruction: Integrating the Arts through Lesley University.