Choose one of these images to write a poem about:
Anonymous
Venus de Milo, 130-120 BC
The Discus Thrower
Audubon (John James Audubon)
Roseate Spoonbill, 1835-38
Beckmann
The Prodigal Son Among Swine, 1918
Bierstadt (Albert Bierstadt)
Sunset in the Yosemite Valley, 1861
Blake (William Blake)
God as an Architect, 1794
The Great Red Dragon and the Woman Clothed with the Sun, 1805-1810
Glad Day
The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, 1790-93
The Body of Abel Found by Adam and Eve, 1825
Botticelli (Sandro Botticelli)
Pallas and the Centaur
Fortitude, 1470
The Birth of Venus, 1480
The Return of Judith, 1470
The Discovery of the Body of Holofernes
Breton (Jules Breton)
Brittany Girl, 1872
The Song of the Lark, 1884
Brueghel (Pieter Brueghel)
Landscape with the Fall of Icarus, 1558
Gloom Day, 1565
The Fall of the Rebel Angels, 1562
The Tower of Babel, 1563
The Slaughter of the Innocents, 1566
Peasant Wedding, 1568
The Land of Cockayne, 1567
The Beggars, 1568
The Parable of the Blind Leading the Blind, 1568
Castagno (Andrea del Castagno)
The Young David
Celmins (Vija Celmins)
Untitled, 1970
Cézanne (Paul Cézanne)
Nature Morte au Panier
Le Paysan, c. 1891
Le Chateau Noir, 1900-04
Girl at the Piano, 1868-69
Mardi Gras, 1888
Boy in a Red Waistcoat, 1890-95
Self Portrait on a Rose Background, 1875-77
Blue Vase, 1883-87
Still Life with Skull, 1895-1900
Pyramid of Skulls, c. 1901
Chagall (Marc Chagall)
Mariee
Maternity, 1912
Close (Chuck Close)
Study for Self-Portrait, 1968
da Vinci (Leonardo da Vinci)
The Mona Lisa, 1503-06
Leda
Saint John the Baptist
The Battle of Anghiari
Delacroix (Eugène Delacroix)
Apasia, 1824
The Barque of Dante, 1822
Louis d’Orleans Showing his Mistress, 1825-26
Greece on the Ruins of Missolonghi, 1826
Girl Seated in a Cemetery, 1824
Christ on the Lake of Gennesaret
Self Portrait
Liberty Leading the People, 1830
Delaroche (Paul Delaroche)
Young Christian Martyr, 1855
The Execution of Lady Jane Grey, 1834
Marquis de Pastoret, 1829
Dix (Otto Dix)
Self-Portrait, 1922
Dürer (Albrecht Dürer)
Lamentations Over the Dead Christ, 1500-03
Christ Among the Doctors, 1506
Self Portrait in a Fur Coat, 1500
St. Jerome in the Wilderness, 1494
Christ as the Man of Sorrows, 1493
The Adoration of the Magi, 1504-05
Study of Praying Hands, 1508
El Greco
Self Portrait, 1604
St. Martin and the Beggar, 1597-99
Saints John the Evangelist and Francis, 1600
Laocoon, 1610
Christ Carrying the Cross, 1600-05
The Opening of the Fifth Seal of the Apocalypse, c. 1608-1614
Escalante (Juan Antonio Escalante)
An Angel Awakens the Prophet Elijah, 1667
Espinosa (Juan de Espinosa)
Still Life with Grapes
Gauguin (Paul Gauguin)
The Artist’s Mother, 1889
Harvest Scene
The Visitation after the Sermon, 1888
The Yellow Christ, 1889
Fatata Te Miti (Near the Sea), 1892
Ta Matete (We Shall Not Go to Market Today), 1892
Woman with Mango, 1982
The Meal, 1891
Manao Tupapau (The Spirit of the Dead Keeps Watch), 1892
The White Horse, 1898
Mahana No Atua (Day of Gods), 1894
Self Portrait with Yellow Christ, 1889-90
The Beautiful Angele, 1889
Gerome (Jean Leon Gerome)
Pho Xai, 1861
Night, c. 1850-5
Heads of the Rebel Beys
Diogenes, 1860
The Christian Martyrs Last Prayer, 1883
Pollice Verso, 1872
Harem Pool
Slave Auction, 1866
Black Bashi Bazouk, c. 1869
The Call to Prayer, 1879
Cave Canem, 1881
The Pipelighter, c. 1898
Moorish Bath, 1874-77
Giannetti (Raffaele Giannetti)
A Pompeian Beauty
Goya (Francisco de Goya)
The Parasol, 1777
The Holy Family, 1774
Self Portrait, 1815
Still Life with a Sheep’s Head
Witches Sabbath, 1798
Procession of Flagellants on Good Friday, 1793
Dona Teresa Sureda, 1805
Grosz (George Grosz)
Republican Automatons, 1920
The Convict, 1920
Circe, 1927
Punishment, 1934
Guston (Philip Guston)
Untitled, 1980
Hammershoi (Vilhelm)
Interior with a Girl at the Clavier, 1901
Heintz (Joseph Heintz)
Venus and Adonis
Kandinsky (Vasily Kandinsky)
Interior, 1909
Yellow-Red-Blue, 1925
Cossacks, 1910-11
Kentridge (William Kentridge)
Drawing for Stereoscope, 1998-99
Khrutsky (Ivan Khrutsky)
Young Woman with a Basket, 1835
Still Life with a Candle
Kirchner (Ernst Ludwig Kirchner)
Self Portrait with Model, c. 1910
Klee (Paul Klee)
Der Goldene Fisch
The Rose Garden
Looking Into the Shadows
Fisch Bild, 1925
Senecio, 1922
Kroyer (Peder Severin Kroyer)
Summer Evening at Skagen, 1892
Self Portrait
La Tour (Georges de La Tour)
St. Irene Removing Arrows from St. Sebastian’s Leg
The Repentant Magdalen, 1635
The Penitent Magdalen, 1640
Lam (Wifredo Lam)
The Jungle, 1943
Satan, 1942
Magritte (René Magritte)
The Thought Which Sees, 1965
Manet (Edouard Manet)
Boy with a Pitcher, 1862
The Fifer, 1866
The Absinthe Drinker, 1859
Berthe Morisot Holding a Bunch of Violets, 1872
The Execution of the Emperor Maximillion, 1867
The Bar at the Folies Bergere, 1882
Bathers on the Seine, Unfinished
Portrait of Stephane Mallarme, 1876
Gare St. Lazare, 1873
Manzelli (Margherita Manzelli)
Hysterical Lace, 2001
Matisse (Henri Matisse)
Blue Nude I
Blue Nude II
La Musique
Pasiphae
Dance
Michelangelo (Michelangelo Buonarroti)
The Creation of Adam, 1508-12
The Drunkenness of Noah
Cumaen Sybil
Prophet Jeremiah
Statue of David
Miró (Joan Miró)
Singing Fish
Opera Singer, 1934
Monet (Claude Monet)
Jardin de Monet a Giverny
Artist’s Garden at Giverny
San Giorgio Maggiore at Dusk
Waterlilies
A Corner of the Studio, 1861
Madame Gaudibert, 1868
A Corner of the Apartment, 1875
Study of a Figure Outdoors (Facing Right), 1886
Rue Saint Denis, 30th June 1878
Woman with a Parasol, 1875
La Japonaise, 1875
Munch (Edvard Munch)
The Scream
Puberty, 1895
O’Keeffe (Georgia O’Keeffe)
From the Lake No. 1
Ranchos Church
An Orchid, 1941
Oldenburg (Claes Oldenburg)
Self Portrait, 1958
Picasso (Pablo Picasso)
Blue Nude, 1902
Woman/Flower, 1946
Sleeping Peasants, 1919
Rainer (Arnulf Rainer)
Untitled, 1969-1974
Raphael
The Blessing Christ
The Vision of Ezekiel, 1518
Maddalena
The Sistine Madonna, 1513-14
Elisabetta Gonzaga, 1504-06
The Knights Dream
St. Catherine of Alexandria, 1508
The Mute Woman
The Entombment
The Transfiguration
Self Portrait, 1506
Redon (Odilon Redon)
The Celt, c. 1878
The Accused, 1881
Rembrandt (Rembrandt van Rijn)
Rembrandt’s Mother, 1639
The Blinding of Samson, 1636
Jacob’s Blessing, 1656
The Descent from the Cross, 1633
The Rich Old Man from the Parable, 1627
Self Portrait, 1627
Artist in his Studio, 1629
Danae, 1636
The Sacrifice of Isaac, 1635
Balaam’s Ass, 1626
Lucretia, 1666
The Return of the Prodigal Son, 1668-69
Renoir (Pierre-Auguste Renoir)
Le Jardin du Luxembourg, 1883
Madame Monet Lying on a Sofa, 1874
Odalisque: Woman of Algiers, 1870
Pensive, 1875
Fruits from the Midi, 1881
Young Boy with a Cat, 1868-69
Young Woman Bathing, 1888
By the Seashore, 1883
Claude Renoir Playing, 1905
Claude Monet Reading, 1872
Child with Blond Hair, 1900
Dancer, 1874
Diana, 1867
Gabrielle in a Red Blouse, 1910
Gabrielle with Bare Breasts, 1907
Irène Cahen d’Anvers, 1879
Lady Sewing, 1879
Richter (Gerhard Richter)
G.A.1 (21.1.84), 1984
G.A.2 (21.1.84), 1984
22.3.88, 1988
Rockwell (Norman Rockwell)
A Study for the Doctor’s Office, 1958
The Problem We All Live With, 1964
Rossetti (Dante Gabriel Rossetti)
Proserpine, 1874
Pandora, 1869
Fair Rosamund, 1861
Portrait of Elizabeth Siddal, 1854
Rouault (Georges Rouault)
Profile of a Clown, 1938
Rubens (Peter Paul Rubens)
Roman Charity, 1612
The Four Quarters of the Globe, 1612-14
The Abduction of Ganymede
Bacchus, 1638-40
The Three Graces
Angelica and the Hermit
The Raising of the Cross, 1620-21
The Triumph of Truth
Shaw (Jim Shaw)
Stinking with Sin, 1981
Tanguy (Yves Tanguy)
Untitled, 1936
The Great Mutation, 1942
Tuymans (Luc Tuymans)
Yzer-Tower, 1995
Ucello (Paolo Ucello)
St. George and the Dragon
Van Gogh (Vincent Van Gogh)
Starry Night, 1889
Four Cut Sunflowers, 1888
Wheatfield With Crows, 1890
Self Portrait at Saint Remy, 1889
Self Portrait With Bandaged Ear, 1889
Crown Imperial Fritillaries in Copper Vase, 1887
Vega (Antonio Vega)
In Blue
Vermeer (Jan Vermeer)
The Astronomer, 1668
Girl with a Pearl Earring, 1665
Woman with a Water Jug, 1664-65
Whistler (James Abbott McNeill Whistler)
Portrait of the Artist’s Mother, 1871
White (Clarence H. White)
The Mirror, 1912
Blind Man’s Buff, 1898
Lady in Black with Statuette, 1898
The Readers, 1897
The Bashful Child, 1899
Wyeth (Andrew Wyeth)
Master Bedroom
Zorn (Anders Zorn)
Dagmar, 1911