10 of The World's Most Famous Painters
Art provides people with a means to
express themselves. It can be used to spread new ideas, expand your
imagination, fill you with emotion or send you a message. Art promotes
critical thinking, it teaches us skills like collaboration and
independence. It has been part of human existence since the dawn of
time, as evident by cave paintings.
Once in a while, a true master comes
along, enriching humanity with their art, like these 10 great masters
and their masterpieces:
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1. Artist: Salvador Dalí (1904 – 1989) Most known painting: The Persistence of Time |
Salvador Domingo Felipe Jacinto Dalí
i Domènech, 1st Marqués de Dalí de Pubol was a prominent Spanish
Catalan surrealist painter born in Figueres, Spain. Dalí was a skilled
draftsman, best known for the striking and bizarre images in his
surrealist work. His painterly skills are often attributed to the
influence of Renaissance masters. His best-known work, The Persistence
of Memory, was completed in August 1931. It epitomizes Dalí's theory of
"softness" and "hardness", which was central to his thinking at the
time. As Dawn Ades wrote, "The soft watches are an unconscious symbol of
the relativity of space and time, a Surrealist meditation on the
collapse of our notions of a fixed cosmic order". It is currently
located in the New York Museum of Modern Art.
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2. Artist: Pablo Picasso (1881 – 1973) Most known painting: Guernica |
Pablo
Ruiz y Picasso, was a Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker,
ceramicist, stage designer, poet and playwright who spent most of his
adult life in France. As one of the greatest and most influential
artists of the 20th century, he is known for co-founding the Cubist
movement, the invention of constructed sculpture, the co-invention of
collage, and for the wide variety of styles that he helped develop and
explore. The painting Guernica was created in response to the bombing of
Guernica, a Basque Country village in northern Spain, by German and
Italian warplanes at the behest of the Spanish Nationalist forces on 26
April 1937 during the Spanish Civil War. Guernica shows the tragedies of
war and the suffering it inflicts upon individuals, particularly
innocent civilians. It is on display in the Museo Reina Sofia, Madrid,
Spain.
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3. Artist: Vincent Van Gogh (1853 – 1890)
Most known painting: The Starry Night |
Vincent
Willem van Gogh was a Post-Impressionist painter of Dutch origin whose
work—notable for its rough beauty, emotional honesty, and bold color—had
a far-reaching influence on 20th-century art. The Starry Night is an
oil on canvas, painted in June, 1889, it depicts the view (with the
notable addition of an idealized village) from the east-facing window of
his asylum room at Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, just before sunrise. It has
been in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York
City since 1941.
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4. Artist: Rembrandt (1606 – 1669) Most known painting: The Jewish Bride |
Rembrandt
Harmenszoon van Rijn was a Dutch painter and etcher. He is generally
considered one of the greatest painters and printmakers in European art
and the most important in Dutch history. The Jewish Bride was painted
around 1667. It gained its current name in the early 19th century, when
an Amsterdam art collector identified the subject as that of a Jewish
father bestowing a necklace upon his daughter on her wedding day. It is
displayed in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.
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5. Artist: Michelangelo (1475 – 1564) Most known painting: The Creation of Adam |
Michelangelo
di Lodovico Buonarroti was an Italian sculptor, painter, architect,
poet, and engineer of the High Renaissance who exerted an unparalleled
influence on the development of Western art. The Creation of Adam is
part of the Sistine Chapel ceiling, painted circa 1511–1512. It
illustrates the Biblical creation narrative from the Book of Genesis in
which God breathes life into Adam, the first man. It is the most
well-known of the Sistine Chapel fresco panels, and its fame as a piece
of art is rivaled only by the Mona Lisa.
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1. Artist: Leonardo Da Vinci (1452 – 1519) Most known painting: Mona Lisa |
Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci was
an Italian polymath, painter, sculptor, architect, musician,
mathematician, engineer, inventor, anatomist, geologist, cartographer,
botanist, and writer. He is widely considered to be one of the greatest
painters of all time and perhaps the most diversely talented person ever
to have lived. His genius, perhaps more than that of any other figure,
epitomized the Renaissance humanist ideal. The Mona Lisa is a
half-length portrait of a woman by Leonardo da Vinci, which has been
acclaimed as "the best known, the most visited, the most written about,
the most sung about, the most parodied work of art in the world". The
painting, thought to be a portrait of Lisa Gherardini, the wife of
Francesco del Giocondo, is believed to have been painted between 1503
and 1506. It is on permanent display at The Louvre museum in Paris since
1797.
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7. Artist: Raphael (1483 – 1520) Most known painting: Wedding of the Virgin |
Raffaello
Sanzio da Urbino was an Italian painter and architect of the High
Renaissance. His work is admired for its clarity of form and ease of
composition and for its visual achievement of the Neoplatonic ideal of
human grandeur. The Marriage of the Virgin, also known as Lo Sposalizio,
was completed in 1504 for a Franciscan church in Città di Castello, the
painting depicts a marriage ceremony between Mary and Joseph. It is
currently located in Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan.
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8. Artist: Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841–1919) Most known painting: Dance at Le Moulin de la Galette |
Pierre-Auguste
Renoir was a French artist who was a leading painter in the development
of the Impressionist style. Bal du moulin de la Galette was painted in
1876 depicts a typical Sunday afternoon at Moulin de la Galette in the
district of Montmartre in Paris. It is housed at the Musée d'Orsay in
Paris and is one of Impressionism's most celebrated masterpieces.
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9. Artist: Jan Vermeer (1632 – 1675) Most known painting: Girl With Pearl Earrings |
Johannes,
Jan or Johan Vermeer was a Dutch painter who specialized in domestic
interior scenes of middle-class life. The painting Girl with a Pearl
Earring is one of Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer's masterworks and, as
the name implies, uses a pearl earring for a focal point. The image is a
tronie, the Dutch 17th-century description of a ‘head’ that
was not meant to be a portrait. It has been in the collection of the
Mauritshuis gallery in The Hague since 1902.
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10. Artist: Claude Monet (1840 – 1926) Most known painting: Le Bassin Aux Nymphéas |
Oscar-Claude Monet was a founder of
French Impressionist painting, and the most consistent and prolific
practitioner of the movement's philosophy of expressing one's
perceptions before nature, especially as applied to plein-air landscape
painting. The term "Impressionism" is derived from the title of his
painting Impression, soleil levant (Impression, Sunrise. The painting
depict Monet's flower garden at Giverny and is the main focus of Monet's
artistic production during the last thirty years of his life. Many of
the works were painted while Monet suffered from cataracts. Since 2008,
the painting has been in the possession of a private collector.
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jeudi 23 octobre 2014
10 of The World's Most Famous Painters
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