Artists

Artists

For artists of all types, including but not limited to painters, sculptors, sketch artists, etc.

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Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475-1564) – Some readers will be quite surprised to see the man who is, along with Picasso, the greatest artistic genius of all time, out of the "top ten" of this list, but ...

Paul Gauguin

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Paul Gauguin (1848-1903) – One of the most fascinating figures in the history of painting, his works moved from Impressionism (soon abandoned) to a colorful and vigorous symbolism, as can be seen in ...

Francisco De Goya

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Francisco De Goya (1746-1828) - Goya is an enigma. In the whole History of Art few figures are as complex as the artist born in Fuendetodos, Spain. Enterprising and indefinable, a painter with no ...

Vincent Van Gogh

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Vincent Van Gogh (1853-1890) – Few names in the history of painting are now as famous as Van Gogh, despite the complete neglect he suffered in life. His works, strong and personal, are one of the ...

Edouard Manet

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Edouard Manet (1832-1883) – Manet was the origin of Impressionism, a revolutionary in a time of great artistic revolutions. His (at the time) quite polemical "Olympia" or "Déjeuner sur l'Herbe" ...

Mark Rothko

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Mark Rothko (1903-1970) – The influence of Rothko in the history of painting is yet to be quantified, because the truth is that almost 40 years after his death the influence of Rothko's large, ...

Henri Matisse

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Henri Matisse (1869-1954) – Art critics tend to regard Matisse as the greatest exponent of twentieth century painting, only surpassed by Picasso. This is an exaggeration, although the almost pure use ...