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 Artists
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LEONARDO DA VINCI
02 03
PABLO PICASSO
VINCENT VAN
GOGH

04
CLAUDE MONET
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JOHANNES
06
EDVARD
VERMEER MUNCH
Leonardo Da Vinci
(1452 – 1519)
Leonardo da Vinci, probably the
most important Renaissance
artist, is widely recognized as the
most famous artist of all time.
He’s the genius behind the iconic
Mona Lisa painting masterpiece,
after all. It was painted sometime
between 1503 and 1519 when
Leonardo was living in Florence,
and it now hangs in the Louvre
Museum, in Paris, where it
remained an object of pilgrimage
in the 21st century.
Masterpieces
The Mona Lisa is an oil painting,
with a cottonwood panel as the
surface. It is unusual in that most
paintings are commissioned as oil
on canvas.

Among his famous masterpieces,

there are also the Last Supper and
The Lady with an Ermine. The Last
Supper is the most reproduced
religious painting of all time and his
Vitruvian Man drawing is regarded
as a cultural icon as well.
 Vincent Van Gogh
(1853 – 1890)
Vincent Willem van Gogh was a Dutch post-
impressionist painter who is among the most
famous and influential figures in the history
of Western art. In just over a decade, he
created about 2,100 artworks, including
around 860 oil paintings, most of which date
from the last two years of his life. They
include landscapes, still lifes, portraits and
self-portraits, and are characterised by bold
colours and dramatic, impulsive and
expressive brushwork.
Masterpieces
He painted Starry Night in 1889
during his stay at the asylum of
Saint-Paul-de-Mausole near
Saint-Rémy-de-Provence.
He was not commercially successful, and his suicide at
37 came after years of mental illness, depression and
poverty. The name of van Gogh was virtually unknown
when he killed himself: only one article about him had
appeared during his lifetime. However, within the span
of a century, van Gogh has become perhaps the most
recognised painter of all time.
 Pablo Picasso (1881 – 1973)
Pablo Ruiz
Picasso was a
Spanish painter,
sculptor,
printmaker,
ceramicist and
theatre designer
who spent most
of his adult life in
France.
His style
developed from
the Blue Period to
the Rose Period
to the pivotal
work Les
Demoiselles
d’Avignon (1907),
and the
subsequent
evolution of
Cubism.
Masterpieces

Among his most famous works are the

proto-Cubist Les Demoiselles d’Avignon
(1907), and Guernica (1937), a dramatic
portrayal of the bombing of Guernica by
German and Italian airforces during the
Spanish Civil War.
Claude Monet
(1840 – 1926)
Oscar-Claude Monet was a
French painter and a founder
of French Impressionist
painting. When Claude, the
eldest son of Adolphe Monet,
a grocer, was five years old,
the family moved to the
Normandy coast, near Le
Havre, where his father took
over the management of his
family’s thriving ship-
chandlering and grocery
business.
He was the most consistent and prolific practitioner of the Impressionist
philosophy of expressing one’s perceptions before nature, especially as
applied to plein air landscape painting (painting outdoors). The term
“Impressionism” is derived from the title of his painting Impression,
(Impression, Sunrise), which was exhibited in 1874 in the first of the
independent exhibitions mounted by Monet and his associates as an
alternative to the Salon de Paris.
Johannes Vermeer (1632 – 1675)
Johannes Vermeer was a Dutch Baroque Period
painter who specialised in domestic interior scenes
of middle class life. Among his most famous works
are the Girl With a Pearl Earring, The Milkmaid and
View of Delft.
Almost all his paintings,” Hans
Koningsberger wrote, “are apparently set
in two smallish rooms in his house in
Delft; they show the same furniture and
decorations in various arrangements and
they often portray the same people,
mostly women.”
 Edvard Munch (1863 – 1944)
Edvard Munch was a
Norwegian painter. His
best known work, The
Scream, is probably one
of the most widely
recognised paintings of
all time, due to its iconic
evocation of the feelings
of angst and fear. Some
even go as far as naming
the painting the Mona
Lisa of anxiety.
Many sources agree that Munch’s work is
the beginning of the expressionist
movement that spread through Germany
and on to other parts of the world. The
Scream is very often seen an icon of
modern art, a Mona Lisa for our time.
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