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Famous Artists around the world Vincent van Gogh Vincent Willem van Gogh was a Dutch Post-Impressionist painter who posthumously became one of the most famous and influential figures in Western art history. In a decade, he created about 2,100 artworks, inclu...

Famous Artists around the world Vincent van Gogh Vincent Willem van Gogh was a Dutch Post-Impressionist painter who posthumously became one of the most famous and influential figures in Western art history. In a decade, he created about 2,100 artworks, including around 860 oil paintings, most of which date from the last two years of his life.They include landscapes, still lifes, portraits, and self-portraits, and are characterized by bold colors and dramatic, impulsive and expressive brushwork that contributed to the foundations of modern art. He was not commercially successful and, struggling with severe depression and poverty, committed suicide at the age of 37 Born: 30 March 1853, Zundert, Netherlands Died: 29 July 1890, Auvers-sur-Oise, France Periods: Realism, Post-Impressionism, Modern art, Impressionism, Japonisme, Cloisonnism, Pointillism, Neo-Impressionism Artworks: The Starry Night 1889 Van Gogh Self-portrait 1889 The Potato Eaters 1885  Irises 1889 Cafe Terrace at Night 1888 Sunflowers  Pablo Picasso Pablo Ruiz Picasso was a Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist and theater designer who spent most of his adult life in France. Born: 25 October 1881, Málaga, Spain Died: 8 April 1973, Mougins, France Periods: Cubism, Surrealism, Expressionism, Post-Impressionism Artworks: The Weeping Woman 1937 La vie 1903 The Old Guitarist 1904 Self-portrait 1901  La Reve 1932 Girl Before a mirror 1932  Claude Monet Oscar-Claude Monet was a French painter and founder of impressionist painting who is seen as a key precursor to modernism, especially in his attempts to paint nature as he perceived it. Born: 14 November 1840, Rue Laffitte, Paris, France Died: 5 December 1926, Giverny, France Periods: Impressionism, Modern art, Realism Artworks: Woman with a parasol 1875  The water lily Pond 1899 Regattas at Argenteuil 1872 Artist’s Garden 1900 San Giorgio Maggiore at Dusk 1912 Poppies 1873  Leonardo da Vinci Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci was an Italian polymath of the High Renaissance who was active as a painter, draftsman, engineer, scientist, theorist, sculptor, and architect. Born: 15 April 1452, Anchiano, Italy Died: 2 May 1519, Château du Clos Lucé, Amboise, France Periods: High Renaissance, Early renaissance, Renaissance, Italian Renaissance, Florentine painting Artworks: Mona Lisa 1503 Salvator Mundi 1500 Virgin of the Rocks Ginevra de' Benci 1478  The Virgin and Child withSaint Anne The Last Supper 1498  Michelangelo Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni, known simply as Michelangelo, was an Italian sculptor, painter, architect and poet of the High Renaissance. Born: 6 March 1475, Caprese Michelangelo, Italy Died: 18 February 1564, Rome, Italy Periods: High Renaissance, Italian Renaissance, Renaissance, Mannerism Artworks: Creation of Adam  Angel 1495 The Deposition 1547 Bacchus 1497  Doni Tondo 1506 Madonna of Bruges 1504  Salvador Dalí Salvador Domingo Felipe Jacinto Dalí i Domènech, Marquess of Dalí of Púbol gcYC was a Spanish surrealist artist renowned for his technical skill, precise draftsmanship, and the striking and bizarre images in his work. Born in Figueres, Catalonia, Spain, Dalí received his formal education in fine arts in Madrid. Born: 11 May 1904, Figueres, Spain Died: 23 January 1989, Figueres, Spain Periods: Surrealism, Expressionism, Post-Impressionism Artworks: The Persistence of time 1931  The Elephants 1948 The great Masturbator 1929 Metamorphosis of Narcissus 1937  Dream caused by the flight of a Bee of Pomegranate 1944 The Burning Giraffe 1937  Andy Warhol Andy Warhol was an American artist, film director, and producer who was a leading figure in the visual art movement known as pop art Born: 6 August 1928, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States Died: 22 February 1987, New York Presbyterian Hospital, New York, United States Periods: Pop art, Abstract expressionism, Modern art, Contemporary art, Naïve art Artworks: Campbell’s Soup Cans 1962  Shot Marilyns 1964 Marilyn Diptych 1962 Self-Portrait Coca-Cola Grevy’s Zebra  Johannes Vermeer Johannes Vermeer was a Dutch Baroque Period painter who specialized in domestic interior scenes of middle-class life. During his lifetime, he was a moderately successful provincial genre painter, recognized in Delft and The Hague. Born: October 1632, Delft, Netherlands Died: December 1675, Delft, Netherlands Periods: Dutch Golden Age, Baroque, Baroque painting Artworks: View of Delft 1661  The Art of Painting 1668 Woman Holding a Balance 1663 Woman reading a letter 1664  The Little Street 1658 Girl reading a letter at an open window 1659  Henri Matisse Henri Émile Benoît Matisse was a French artist, known for both his use of color and his fluid and original draftsmanship. He was a draftsman, printmaker, and sculptor, but is known primarily as a painter. Born: 31 December 1869, Le Cateau-Cambrésis, France Died: 3 November 1954, Nice, France Periods: Expressionism, Post-Impressionism, Fauvism Artworks: Blue Nudes 1952  Le Bonheur de vivre 1906 Portrait of Madame Matisse 1905 Goldfish 1911 The Desert Harmony in Red 1908 Dance  Rembrandt Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn, usually simply known as Rembrandt, was a Dutch Golden Age painter, printmaker and draftsman. An innovative and prolific master in three media, he is generally considered one of the greatest visual artists in the history of art and the most important in Dutch art history. Born: 15 July 1606, Leiden, Netherlands Died: 4 October 1669, Amsterdam, Netherlands Periods: Baroque, Dutch Golden Age, Baroque painting Artworks: The night watch 1642  The Jewish Bride 1665 The storm on the sea of Galille 1663 Belshazzar’s Feast 1635 Syndics of the draper’s guild 1662 The return of the prodigal son 1669  Frida Kahlo Magdalena Carmen Frida Kahlo y Calderón was a Mexican painter known for her many portraits, self- portraits, and works inspired by the nature and artifacts of Mexico Born: 6 July 1907, Coyoacán, Mexico City, Mexico Died: 13 July 1954, Coyoacán, Mexico City, Mexico Periods: Naïve art, Modern art, Surrealism, Magical Realism, Symbolism, Primitivism, Naturalism, Social realism, Cubism Artworks: The Broken column 1944  The Two Fridas 1939 The wounded Deer 1946 Henry Ford hospital 1932  Without Hope 1945 Frida and Diego Rivera 1931  Jackson Pollock Paul Jackson Pollock was an American painter and a major figure in the abstract expressionist movement. He was widely noticed for his "drip technique" of pouring or splashing liquid household paint onto a horizontal surface, enabling him to view and paint his canvases from all angles Born: 28 January 1912, Cody, Wyoming, United States Died: 11 August 1956, Springs, New York, United States Periods: Abstract expressionism, Expressionism, Modern art, Action painting Artworks: Convergence 1952 Full Fathom Five 1947 Mural 1943 Autumn Rhythm  Blue Poles 1952 One: Number 31 1950  Georgia O'Keeffe Georgia Totto O'Keeffe was an American modernist artist. She was known for her paintings of enlarged flowers, New York skyscrapers, and New Mexico landscapes. O'Keeffe has been called the "Mother of American modernism". Born: 15 November 1887, Sun Prairie, Wisconsin, United States Died: 6 March 1986, Santa Fe, New Mexico, United States Periods: Abstract art, American modernism, Modern art, Modernism, Abstract expressionism, Precisionism Artworks: Jimson Weed  Black Iris 1926 Oriental Poppies 1928 Cow’s Skull 1931 Sky Above Clouds IV 1965 Cow’s Skull with Calico Roses 1931  Paul Cézanne Paul Cézanne was a French artist and Post-Impressionist painter whose work laid the foundations of the transition from the 19th-century conception of artistic endeavor to a new and radically different world of art in the 20th century. Born: 19 January 1839, Aix-en-Provence, France Died: 22 October 1906, Aix-en-Provence, France Periods: Post-Impressionism, Modern art, Impressionism, Romanticism, Cubism Artworks: The Basket of Apples 1895  The Large Bathers 1898 The Boy in a Red Vest 1889 The Card Players 1895  Eugène Delacroix Ferdinand Victor Eugène Delacroix was a French Romantic artist regarded from the outset of his career as the leader of the French Romantic school. Born: 26 April 1798, Saint-Maurice, France Died: 13 August 1863, Paris, France Periods: Romanticism, Romanesque art Artworks: Liberty leading the people 1830  The Death of Sradanaplus 1827 Women of algiers 1834 The Barque of Dante 1834  Orphan Girl at the Cemetery 1824 Greece on the Ruins of Missolonghi 1826  Edvard Munch Edvard Munch was a Norwegian painter. His best known work, The Scream, has become an iconic image of the art world. His childhood was overshadowed by illness, bereavement and the dread of inheriting a mental condition that ran in the family. Born: 12 December 1863, Ådalsbruk, Norway Died: 23 January 1944, Oslo, Norway Periods: Expressionism, Modern art, Symbolism, Impressionism, Realism, Post-Impressionism Artworks: Vampire 1895  The scream Anxiety 1894 Madona 1894  the Sick Child 1886 Jealousy 1895  Gustav Klimt Gustav Klimt was an Austrian symbolist painter and one of the most prominent members of the Vienna Secession movement. Klimt is noted for his paintings, murals, sketches, and other objets d'art. Klimt's primary subject was the female body, and his works are marked by a frank eroticism. Born: 14 July 1862, Baumgarten, Vienna, Austria Died: 6 February 1918, Vienna, Austria Periods: Art Nouveau, Symbolism, Vienna Secession, Modern art, Neoclassicism, Realism, Surrealism, Romanticism Artworks: The Kiss 1908  Death and Life 1915 The Three ages of women 1905 Danae 1908  Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I Beethoven Frieze 1902  Pierre-Auguste Renoir Pierre-Auguste Renoir was a French artist who was a leading painter in the development of the Impressionist style. As a celebration of beauty and especially feminine sensuality, it has been said that "Renoir is the final representative of a tradition which runs directly from Rubens to Watteau." Born: 25 February 1841, Limoges, France Died: 3 December 1919, Cagnes-sur-Mer, France Periods: Impressionism, Modern art, Realism Artworks: Two sisters 1881  La Grenouillere 1869 Bal du moulin de la Galette 1876 The Large Bathers 1887 Dance at Bougival 1883 Luncheon of the boating party 1881  Paul Gauguin Eugène Henri Paul Gauguin was a French Post-Impressionist artist. Unappreciated until after his death, Gauguin is now recognized for his experimental use of color and Synthetist style that were distinct from Impressionism. Toward the end of his life, he spent ten years in French Polynesia Born: 7 June 1848, Paris, France Died: 8 May 1903, Atuona, Hiva Oa, French Polynesia Periods: Post-Impressionism, Modern art, Impressionism, Primitivism, Synthetism, Symbolism Artworks: When Will you marry? 1892  The yellow Christ 1889 Tahitian women on the beach 1891 Vision after the sermon 1888  Arearea 1892 Self-portrait with Halo and snake 1889  Edward Hopper Edward Hopper was an American realist painter and printmaker. While he is widely known for his oil paintings, he was equally proficient as a watercolorist and printmaker in etching. Born: 22 July 1882, Upper Nyack, New York, United States Died: 15 May 1967, Washington Square North, New York, United States Periods: Neoclassicism, American Realism, Social realism Artworks: Nighthawks 1942 Automat 1927  Rooms by the Sea 1951 House by the Railroad 1925 Early Sunday Morning 1930 Office at Night 1940