Sandro Brotticelli

Date of Birth: May 20 1445 Place of birth: Florence, Italy Date of death: May 17 1510
Sandro Botticelli worked in Florence all his life where many of his works today are on display in the Uffizi museum. The only interruption from his life in Florence was his short stay in Rome, where he produced 3 frescoes for the Sistine Chapel. After his training with Fr Filippo Lippi, father of Botticelli fell in with the Florentine rulers of the day - the De' Medici family. Through circles surrounding the artistic Lorenzo 'il Magnifico' he received commissions for classical works, including the Birth of Venus and Primavera (Spring). At the same time he worked on a religious body of works. After Lorenzo's death and the De' Medici family's decline, Botticelli all but stopped producing classical works. Possibly influenced by a more Puritan shift in the spirit of his times, his work became mostly sacred and characterized by a melancholy bordering on pathos. Botticelli died in Florence in 1510.

The Birth Of Venus

The Mystical Nativity

Adoration Of The Magi

Primavera

Venus And Mars

Wassily Kandinsky
"The artist must train not only his eye but also his soul."

Date of Birth: December 16 1866 Place of Birth: Russian Empire Date of Death: December 13 1944

Born in Moscow in 1866, Wassily Kandinsky took up the study of art in earnest at age 30, moving to Munich to study drawing and painting. A trained musician, Kandinsky approached color with a musicians sensibility. An obsession with Monet led him to explore his own creative concepts of color on canvas, which were sometimes controversial among his contemporaries and critics, but Kandinsky emerged as a respected leader of the abstract art movement in the early 20th century.

Flood Improv

The White Dot

Landscape With Two Poplars

Houses at Murnau

Kallmunz

Piet Mondran

Date Of Birth: March 7th 1872 Place Of Birth: Amersfoort, Netherland Date Of Death: February 1st 1944

Dutch painter Piet Mondrian began his career firmly rooted in the representational form, favoring naturalistic and impressionistic landscapes. His style was influenced by Picasso and Braque as it morphed into his signature nonrepresentational form which he termed NeoPlasticism. It was through this form that he became an important contributor to the De Stijl art movement.

Broadway Boogie Woogie

Tableau I

Gray Tree

Farm near Duivendrecht

Still Life With Gingerpot I

Illness, insanity, and death were the black angels that kept watch over my cradle and accompanied me all my life.
Edvard Munch

Edvard Munch
Date of Birth: December 12th 1863 Place of Birth: Norway, loten Date of Death: January 23rd 1944

Painter Edvard Munch established a freeflowing, psychological-themed style all his own. His painting The Scream is one of the most recognizable works in the history of art. Later works were less intense, but his legacy was ensured by his earlier, darker paintings. As a testament to his importance, The Scream sold in 2012 for over $119 million, setting a new record.

The Scream

Madonna

Puberty

Death in the Sickroom

Girl Looking out the window

Edward hopper

Date of Birth: July 22nd 1882 Place of Birth: New York, Nyack Date of Death: May 15th 1967

Edward Hopper trained as an illustrator, and devoted much of his early career to advertising and etchings. Influenced by the "Ashcan School," Hopper began to paint the commonplaces of urban life with still, anonymous figures, and compositions that evoke a sense of loneliness. His famous works include Model Reading (1925), Room in Brooklyn (1932), and the iconic Nighthawks (1942).

Office in a small City

Automat

Early Sunday Morning

Chop Suey

Nighthawks