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

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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 picture

Starry 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 picture

Water 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.