1.

ANDY WARHOL
Beginning out as a commercial artist, he
brought the ethos of promotion into fine
art, even going so far as to say, “Making
money is art.” Such attitudes blew away the
existential declarations of Abstract
Expressionism. Although he’s recognized for
captions such as Campbell’s Soup, Marilyn
Monroe, and Elvis Presley, his greatest
invention was himself

2. PABLO PICASSO
Pablo Picasso is implicitly synonymous
with modern art, and it doesn’t hurt that he
fits the generally held image of the fugitive
genius whose goals are balanced by a taste
for living big. He turned the field of art
history with radical innovations that include
college and Cubism, which destroyed the
stranglehold of representational material
matter on art, and set the rate for other
20th-century artists.

3. VAN GOGH
Van Gogh is known for being
psychologically unstable, but his arts are
among the most famous and popular of all
time. Van Gogh’s technique of painting
with flurries of thick brushstrokes made
up of vivid colors squeezed straight from
the tube would inspire subsequent
generations of artists
 4. LEONNARDO DA VINCI
The original Renaissance Man, Leonardo is
known as a genius, not only for
masterpieces such as the Mona Lisa, The
Last Supper and The Lady with an Ermine but
also for his designs of technologies
(aircraft, tanks, automobile) that were
five hundred years in the future.

5. MICHAELANGELO
Michelangelo was a triple threat: A painter (the Sistine Ceiling),
a sculptor (the David and Pietà) and architect (St. Peter’s Basilica
in Rome). Make that a quadruple warning since he also wrote poetry.
Aside from the aforementioned Sistine Ceiling, St. Peter’s Basilica
and Pietà, there was his tomb for Pope Julian II and the design for
the Laurentian Library at San Lorenzo’s Church.

6. HENRI MATISSE
No artist is as intimately attached
to the delights of color as Henri
Matisse. His work was all about
twisted curves rooted in the ideas of
symbolic art and was constantly
concentrated on the beguiling
satisfaction of color and tone.
 7. JACKSON POLLOCK
Hindered by addiction, self-doubt,
and awkwardness as a conventional
painter, Pollock transformed his
faults in a short but intense period
between 1947 and 1950 when he
performed the drip ideas that
connected his fame. Avoiding the
easel to lay his paintings flat on
the floor, he used house paint right
from the can, throwing and dropping thin skeins of pigment that left
behind a solid record of his movements.

8. EDVARD MUNCH
I scream, you scream we all scream for Munch’s The
Scream, the Mona Lisa of anxiety. In 2012, a
pastel variant of Edvard Munch’s iconic invocation
of modern anxiety got a then-astronomical price of
$120 million at auction. Munch’s career was more
than just a single painting.

9. CLAUDE MONET
Perhaps the best-known artist amidst
the Impressionists, Monet conquered the
varying influences of light on the panorama
by bright shards of color produced as
quickly painted strokes. Furthermore, his
many thoughts of haystacks and other
subjects anticipated the use of serial
comparison in Pop Art and Minimalism.

10. RENE MAGRITTE

The name René Magritte is widely recognized by
art lovers and agnostics alike, and for good
reason: He utterly transformed our expectations
of what is real and what is not. When someone
describes something as “surreal,” the chances
are good that an image by Magritte pops into
his or her head
 11. SALVADOR DALI
Dali was effectively Warhol before there was
a Warhol. Like Andy, Dalí courted celebrity
almost as an adjunct to his work. With their
melting watches and eerie blasted
landscapes, Dali’s paintings were the
epitome of Surrealism, and he cultivated an
equally outlandish appearance, wearing a
long waxed mustache that resembled cat
whiskers. Ever the consummate showman, Dalí
once declared, “I am not strange. I am just not normal.”

12. EDWARD HOPPER

Hopper’s enigmatic paintings look into the
hollow core of the American experience—the
alienation and loneliness that represents
the flip side of to our religious devotion
to individualism and the pursuit of an
often-elusive happiness

13. FRIDA KAHLO

The Mexican artist and feminist icon
was a performance artist of paint,
using the medium to lay bare her
vulnerabilities while also
constructing a persona of herself as
an embodiment of Mexico’s cultural
heritage. Her most famous works are
the many surrealistic self-portraits
in which she maintains a regal bearing
even as she casts herself as a martyr
to personal and physical suffering—
anguishes rooted in a life of
misfortunes that included contracting polio as a child, suffering a
catastrophic injury as a teenager, and enduring a tumultuous
marriage to fellow artist Diego Rivera.
 14. YAYOI KUSAMA
Kusama (born 1929) is one of the
most famous artists working today.
Her huge popularity stems from her
mirrored “Infinity Rooms” that have
proved irresistible for Instagram
users, but her career stretches back
over six decades. Starting as a
child, the Japanese artist began to
suffer from hallucinations that
manifested as flashes of light or
auras, as well as fields of dots and
flowers that talked to her. These experiences have provided the
inspiration for her work, including the aforementioned rooms along
with paintings, sculptures and installations that employ vivid,
phantasmagorical patterns of polka dots and other motifs.

ZUNIEGA, Nivea Krizelle M.

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