Category:Art

I am a huge fan of art. I find everything about it pleasing. It is one of the most profound of human expressions.

Famous Artists

1. Pablo Picasso / Pablo Ruiz y Picasso — Spanish Cubist Painter and Sculptor, 1881-1973.
2. Leonardo da Vinci — Italian High Renaissance Painter and Inventor, 1452-1519.
3. Vincent van Gogh — Dutch Post-Impressionist Painter, 1853-1890.
4. Claude Monet — French Impressionist Painter, 1840-1926.
5. Salvador Dalí — Spanish Surrealist Painter, 1904-1989.
6. Georgia O'Keeffe — American Painter, 1887-1986.
7. Henri Matisse — French Fauvist Painter and Sculptor, 1869-1954.
8. Andy Warhol — American Pop Artist, 1928-1987.
9. Michelangelo / Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni / Michel-Ange — Italian High Renaissance/Mannerist Painter and Sculptor, 1475-1564.
10. Rembrandt / Rembrandt van Rijn / Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn — Dutch Baroque Era Painter and Engraver, 1606-1669.
11. Edgar Degas (19 July 1834 – 27 September 1917)
12. Paul Cezanne (19 January 1839 – 22 October 1906)
13. Wassily Kandinsky (1866-1944)
14. Goya / Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes (30 March 1746 – 16 April 1828); Spanish painter.
15. Raphael (6 April 1483 – 6 April 1520)
16. Georges Braque (13 May 1882 – 31 August 1963)
17. Diego Rivera (8 December 1886 – 24 November 1957)
18. Edvard Munch (12 December 1863 – 23 January 1944)
19. Peter Paul Rubens (28 June 1577 – 30 May 1640)
20. Rene Magritte / René François Ghislain Magritte (21 November 1898 – 15 August 1967) Belgian surrealist artist
21. Jackson Pollock / Paul Jackson Pollock (28 January 1912 – 11 August 1956)
22. Pierre-Auguste Renoir (25 February 1841–3 December 1919)
23. Albrecht Durer / Albrecht Dürer (21 May 1471 – 6 April 1528)
24. Frida / Frida Kahlo (6 July 1907 – 13 July 1954)
25. Amedeo Modigliani / Amedeo Clemente Modigliani (12 July 1884 – 24 January 1920) Italian painter and sculptor.
26. Paul Gauguin / Eugène Henri Paul Gauguin (7 June 1848 – 9 May 1903) Post-Impressionist artist.
27. Edouard Manet / Édouard Manet (23 January 1832 – 30 April 1883) was a French painter
28. M.C. Escher / Maurits Cornelis Escher — Dutch Illustrator, 1898-1972.
29. Titian / Tiziano Vecellio / Tiziano Vecellio Di Gregorio / Titien / Tizian — Italian High Renaissance Painter, ca.1485-1576.
30. Paul Klee — Swiss Expressionist Painter, 1879-1940.
31. Artemisia Gentileschi — Italian Baroque Era Painter, 1593-1652.
32. Jan Vermeer / Johannes Vermeer / Vermeer van Delft — Dutch Baroque Era Painter, 1632-1675.

• Caravaggio / Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (28 September 1571 – 18 July 1610) Italian artist.

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Museums

• List of notable museums and galleries
• Galleria degli Uffizi — Florence

Movies related to art

• Artemisia (1997) — starring Valentina Cervi as Artemisia Gentileschi
• Incognito (1997) — starring Jason Patric as Harry Donovan
• Surviving Picasso (1996) — starring Anthony Hopkins as Pablo Picasso
• Girl with a Pearl Earring (2003) — starring Colin Firth as Johannes Vermeer and Scarlett Johansson as Griet

External links

• Artcyclopedia — a guide to great art on the Internet
• Art Timeline
• Just Coffee Art
• Tim Noble and Sue Webster

Digital art

• Inkscape Galleries
• deviantART