5 Artist I Would Use In My Classroom

• Pablo Picasso- His paintings looked flat and round, so round it seemed that you could actually pick it up. During the Cubism Period, he painted people and things that looked abstract instead of realistic.

• Leonardo DaVinci- Best known for the "Mona Lisa" and "The Last Supper"; DaVinci learned from nature and science when it came to painting. He left many of his pictures unfinished.

• Vincent Van Gogh- He was a tragic artist who never smiled in his self portraits. He used strong lines and shapes to draw everyday people. Famous for "Starry Night". He died believing he was not a good artist.

• Claude Monet- Even when he was young he was a very good artist. His pictures were so good that an art supply store let him hang his pictures in their window. Unlike many artists, he was famous even before he died. He is best known for his painting, "Morning Haze".

• Jacob Lawrence- He used art to tell stories. He painted African American hero historicals teaching history through art. His 60 paintings, "Migration Series", told the story of blacks who left their homes in the south for a better life up north and the struggle it took to get there. He painted all 60 drawings at the same time.