* Vincent Van Gogh Vincent is one of the world's best known artists. His paintings have touched cultures around the world, and he became the archetype of the “tortured artist.” ‘Van Gogh was born in 1853 and grew up in the Netherlands. He was raised ina religious family with his father being a minister. When he finished his studies, Vincent followed his uncle's profession and became an art dealer learning the trade in Holland and later working in England and France. Vincent was successful and was initially pleased with his work. However, he soon tired of the art business, especially in Paris, and lost interest in the trade. As his development as a preacher stalled, interest in those around him increased. His life as an artist was beginning. In his lifetime, Vincent van Gogh's life was poor, lonely, and hard. But in the ten short years that he painted, Van Gogh created unforgettable art. Vincent Van Gogh wanted to combine his ‘two great interests: religion and art. Painting was then a hobby for him. It was a religious mission. After years of looking for love, Vincent van Gogh moved to Paris in 1886. He fell in love with the French capital's art scene and became fascinated by Impressionist artists like Cezane, Pissarro, Renoir, and Monet. He painted flowers, street scenes and landscapes, and everyday objects like bottles and vases. Vincent van Gogh was inspired by Paul Gauguin, but failed to sell a single painting during his, entire career. Van Gogh painted 200 canvasses in 18 months, completing two or three within a few hours. It wasn’t just the place or the colors that made the paintings so rich. It was also Vincent's character and his stormy personality. Van Gogh saw fields burned by the sun and destroyed by intense wind and rain. He came south looking for harmony and tranquility, but found wild nature. Vincent Van Gogh's last year was spent in an asylum. He painted some of his most famous works at Saint-Remy, including The ‘Starry Night and Cornfield with Cypresses. Theo made sure that Vincent had one room to rest in and one room for painting. The next year, his Impressionist painter friend, Pissarro introduced Van Gogh to Dr. Paul Gachet, a printer and an art lover. This was a lucky break for Van Gogh because the doctor understood Van Gogh's genius and knew that he lived for painting. Vincent finally found some peace of mind with Dr. Gachet's help. Vincent's art was evolving from his original paintings of coal miners in dark greys and blacks. It seemed Van Gogh would soon be well enough to go home. It was the only painting Vincent sold in his lifetime. Van Gogh's final self-portrait shows the many sides of his personality. Although he was finally released from the asylum, Vincent's depression became worse. Not long after finishing it, Vincent walked into a field and shot himself. At the time of his death, most of the world had never heard ofVincent van Gogh. ‘Twenty years after his death, there were commemorative shows of his work all over the world influencing generations of artists to come. Pablo Picasso was born in Malaga in 1881. He grew up in Barcelona, where he spent his childhood studying drawing and painting under his father, Jose Ruiz, who taught at a local art school Picasso spent a year studying at the Academy of Arts in Madrid, before traveling to Paris in 1900. Landing in the middle of the European art world, Picasso shared housing with poet and journalist Max Jacob, with whom he lived the Bohemian lifestyle of a poor and starving artist. The next few years saw an improvement in his fortunes, and he spent time in Paris and Madrid, and founded and annotated art magazine Joven. Picasso began to mingle in the company of artists and other literary figures, including poet Guillaume Apollinaire and legendary writer, art critic and salon host Gertrude Stein, whose portrait she painted in 1906. He had amazing powers of invention, constantly innovating and updating his work and experimenting one style after another. His first distinct period was the Blue Period, dating roughly from 1901 to 1904 when he used a predominantly blue, blue, and green palette and painted poignant Portraits of beggars, prostitutes, and other tragic figures from the streets of Paris. The rose period, which followed, used a warmer color palette, and focused on the subject in general less melancholy. Around 1907, Picasso became so influenced by Africanmasks and art that he began to shift to Parisian museums after the expansion of the. French Empire into Africa. The simplified, angular faces and planes of the women in Picasso's Les Demoiselles de Avignon, clearly deriving their style from African masks and sculptures, often heralded this painting as the beginning of Cubism. Along with his contemporary Georges Braque, Picasso began to develop an artistic style, later known as Analytic Cubism, that approached the visual world from the perspective of geometric shapes. In 1926, Picasso turned towards Surrealism, a movement that was growing in strength and popularity among Parisian artists. Picasso's most famous surrealist work, Guernica, depicts the bombing of Guernica during the Spanish Ci War. This painting is a powerful anti-war manifesto warning of the suffering and devastation of war. Arguably one of the greatest, most radical and most influential artists of the twentieth century is Picasso's far-reaching and lasting legacy. More than any other artist, Picasso defined the modem art of the twentieth century by founding and developing ‘one of its major movements, Cubism. Andy Warhol has been one of the most outstanding exponents of the pop art movement and now is considered one of the best artists that has marked the most trends during the last century. Warhol had left his indelible mark on cinema, music, literature and painting, ‘Andrew Warhola, Jr. is a native of the city of Pittsburgh where he was born on August6, 1928, into a family of Slovak emigrants. During elementary school, Warhol suffered from a disease that attacks his nervous system and causes involuntary movements in his legs and arms and complications in the pigmentation of his skin. Undoubtedly, this, situation would mark him for life and outline a hypochondriac profile. On the other hand, it would also cause little Andy to spend long periods in bed. At that time, Andy listened to the radio and liked to collect images associated with movie stars, which would later influence the development of pop art. He studied Commercial Art in his hometown and then moved to New York City to start working in advertising. By the fifties, he already enjoyed an important reputation in the media thanks to his drawings that were intensified in images of various campaigns. Also, Warhol would work in the musical field designing album covers and promotional material for important soloists and bands. Among the most prominent are The Rolling Stones. In cinematographic matters, Warhol would also leave an indelible legacy, given his experimental imprint that he did so well in seventh art. Between the years 1963 and 1968 was the time of greatest productivity in this matter. Although Warhol aroused controversy and criticism, his work never went unnoticed and after his death it was even more ‘commented on in many retrospectives that have been held in his name throughout the world. He died of an arrhythmia at the young age of 58, on February 22, 1987, in a New York City hospital while recovering from gallbladder surgery.