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FAMOUS ARTISTS
Artists to know…
PABLO PICASSOSPANISH
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Guernica shows suffering people,
animals, and buildings wrenched
by violence and chaos
LEONARDO DA VINCI
ITALIANClick icon to add picture
Mona Lisa
The painting was commissioned for their
new home and to celebrate the birth of
their second son, Andrea in Tuscany, Italy.
VINCENT VAN GOGHDUTCHClick icon to add pictureStarry Night
Starry Night is one of his most famous paintings and has
become one of the most well known images in modern
culture. The painting shows the village of Saint-Rémy under a swirling sky, in a view from the
asylum towards north.
SALVADOR DALISPANISHClick icon to add picture
The Persistence of Memory
The well-known surrealist piece introduced the image of the soft melting pocket watch. "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".
EL GRECOSPANISHClick icon to add picture
The Burial of the Count of Orgaz
An exceptionally large painting, it is very clearly divided into two sections, heavenly above and
terrestrial below, but it gives little impression of duality. The upper and lower sections are brought
together compositionally.
MICHELANGELOITALIANClick icon to add picture
The Last Judgment
It is a depiction of the second coming of Christ and the apocalypse. The souls of humans rise and descend to
their fates, as judged by Christ surrounded by his
saints.
AUGUSTE RODINFRENCHClick icon to add picture
The Thinker
It depicts a man in sober meditation battling with a
powerful internal struggle. It is often used to represent philosophy,
CLAUDE MONETFRENCHClick icon to add pictureWater Lilies
The paintings depict Monet's flower garden at Giverny and
were 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.
JOHANNES VERMEER
DUTCH
Girl with a Pearl Earring
It is sometimes referred to as "the Mona Lisa of the
North" or
"the Dutch Mona Lisa".
EDGAR DEGASFRENCHClick icon to add picture
La Classe de DanseIn many subsequent
paintings dancers were shown backstage or in
rehearsal, emphasizing their status as professionals doing
a job.