Andy Warhol is considered as one of the central figures in the popularity of the movement known as Pop art. An American artist who began his career as a commercial illustrator, Warhol... Read More »

Claude Oscar Monet was one of the founders of the French Impressionist movement. He was also considered as one of its most prolific and most consistent practitioner, the role model for practicing... Read More »

Edgar Degas is a well known French artist who was regarded as one of the founders of Impressionism. Aside form his paintings, Degas was also known for his sculptures, prints as well... Read More »

Edvard Munch was a notable Norwegian Expressionist painter largely known for his famous painting that in itself is considered one of the best known images in the world. Generally, Edvard... Read More »

Francisco Goya is a notable Spanish painter and printmaker. Goya has been regarded as the last in the line of the Old Masters and the first among the modern painters. In fact... Read More »

Georges-Pierre Seurat was a noted French painter that is also considered as the founder of Neo-impressionism in the 19th Century. He was born on December 2, 1859 to a well-off family in... Read More »

Georgia O'Keefe was a famous American painter known for her landscape paintings as well as her artful depictions of desert flowers, animal bones, shells and rocks. She was a widely recognized painter... Read More »

Gustav Klimt was an Austrian Symbolist painter after the Art Noveau style. He was one of the more prominent members of the Vienna Art Noveau or the Vienna Secession movement. Most... Read More »

Gustave Caillebotte was a notable French painter. He was a member and patron of a group of pioneer artists known as the Impressionists. His artwork was known more for their more realistic... Read More »

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec was a French artist in the late 19th Century and is included as among the great artists of the Post-Impressionist period. Henri was born on November 24, 1864... Read More »

Henri Rousseau was a French Post-Impressionist painter. He was a self-taught painter who started his craft late at 40 years old. He was also known as "Le Douanier", or the customs inspector... Read More »

Henri Emile Benoit Matisse was a noted French artist known as one of the best artists in the 20th Century. He was born on December 31, 1869 in Le Cateau-Cambresis, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France... Read More »

Jacques Louis David is a French painter known for painting in the Neoclassical style. He was highly influential in that he painted with a type of history painting that is marked by... Read More »

Joan Miro was a notable Spanish painter, sculptor and ceramist who earned international acclaim for his work that has been associated with Surrealism. Most of his paintings seem to create images from... Read More »

Johanns Vermeer was a noted Dutch painter who specialized in the Dutch Baroque style. He was famous for his art works of domestic interior scenes depicting ordinary life. A painter... Read More »

John Singer Sargent was a noted portrait painter. He was considered to be the most successful portrait painter during his time. His body of work included roughly 900 oil paintings and over... Read More »

John William Waterhouse is an English Pre-Raphaelite painter. He became famous for his paintings of female characters taken from mythology and literature. He was also a draftsman, sculptor and a teacher. Painter... Read More »

Seldom would one encounter a person who hasn't heard of Leonardo da Vinci, well, at least in most of the countries that have long appreciated the paintings of the masters from long... Read More »

Marc Chagall was a Russian born French painter closely associated to the modern movements that followed after Impressionism. He was born on July 7, 1887 in Liozno, Vitebsk on what is... Read More »

Marcel Duchamp is a notable French artist who was most often associated with the Surrealist and Dadaist art movements. Duchamp's works are not merely composed of paintings but also through interestingly unique... Read More »

Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio was a notable Italian artist known to be the first great representative of the Baroque style. Caravaggio, despite the widely acclaimed artistry during his time, led quite an... Read More »

Revolutionary, madman, iconoclast, and murderer. Michelangelo Merisi's complex life is mirrored in his radical art. He defied centuries of tradition to present ordinary scenes with models from the lower classes. His use... Read More »

Odilon Redon was a French Symbolist painter, graphic artist and draftsman. He became famous for his quite mysterious painting compositions that is said to reflect an exploration of the artist's internal feelings... Read More »

Pablo Picasso is a world renowned Spanish painter and sculptor. He is one of the most recognizable figures of 20th century art and is best known as the co-founder of the cubism... Read More »

Paul Cezanne was a noted French painter considered as one of the greatest of the Post-Impressionists. He was known to have led the way for the transition of Impressionism in the 19th... Read More »

Paul Gauguin was a famous Post-Impressionist painter whose bold experimentation with color helped develop the Synthetist style in modern art. His painting style also led to the development of Primitivism and a... Read More »

Paul Signac is a French Neo-Impressionist painter who helped develop the pointillist style of painting along with Georges Seurat. He was also a writer, having published several books concerning the theory of... Read More »

Peter Paul Rubens was known to be the most prolific and the most renowned Northern European artist of his day. He was also considered as one of the great artists who have... Read More »

Piet Mondrian was a Dutch painter known to have been one of the main contributors to the development of the De Stijl art movement. He was known to have developed painting in... Read More »

Raphael was an Italian painter and architect schooled in the Florentine style of painting during the times if High Renaissance. His artworks were celebrated for their perfection and grace. They were also... Read More »

Salvador Domingo Felipe Jacinto Dali, better known all over the world as Salvador Dali, was a noted Spanish surrealist painter. He was known for his bizarrely striking surrealist paintings and other works... Read More »

Alessandro di Mariano di Vanni di Filipepi, more popularly known as Sandro Boticelli was one of the more notable painter of the Florentine school during the Early Renaissance. Boticelli was born on... Read More »

Art can be an interesting endeavor and it has been for many, many years. Artists throughout the years have made a name for themselves and left lasting legacies that allowed many art... Read More »

The Garden of Earthly Desires is a triptych painting made by Dutch master Hieronymus Bosch. Also known as the Millenium, this painting consists of three sections or panels placed together that can... Read More »

Quite a number of excellent works of art have truly been considered as prized possessions by many art collectors from all over the world. This holds true to a number of notable... Read More »

Vincent Willem van Gogh was a famous Dutch Post-impressionist artist whose paintings and drawings have become some of the most popular and most expensive works of art in the world today. His... Read More »

Willem de Kooning is one of the noted modern artists whose work became prominent in the post World War II era. He was, first and foremost, known as an abstract expressionist painter... Read More »