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Click on the painter's name to jump to web site The painter and engraver is the most famous German representative of the Renaissance and was an important mathematician at the beginning of the 16th century.
Born
in a small town in Czechoslovakia, he achieved immense fame as a
painter, showman, sponsor, and the phrase about everyone being famous
for 15 minutes. All you really need to know is that he is the most revolutionary sculptor of our era. During the Romantic period,
when we associate art chiefly with literature and
music, this German painter produced a series of landscapes of central
Europe that are among the most sublime artistic creations of all time. It is
fitting that one of his pictures---Impression: Sunrise (1872) gave the
name to the Impressionist movement. Famous for his colorful series of
the same subject: Venice, London, Rouen Cathedral, Water-lilies, etc. His "The Scream"
is perhaps the most famous painting of the 20th century and makes frequent
appearances in pop culture. The Norwegian artist
is synonymous with words such as expressionism, angst, and
existentialism. This Cretan-born painter who
lived mainly in Spain painted many fantastic
works with a strongly spiritual bent. Filled with a mystical depth
of feeling unusual for his time, his work portrays devotion, rapture, and
sometimes despair. Not to be confused with the
Elizabethan philosopher, this English painter as famous for his anguished works
and became one of the best known of post WW II artists. Goya is often called
"the first of the moderns", and he is famous for the
realism he injected into his paintings, such as those about the horrors
of the Napoleonic invasions. Around the turn of the
century this Viennese artist emerged with a distinctly
artist and sensual style that seams to shimmer. The
Flemish painter provided us with a wide array of fantastic images of
life and death. Most famous for his triptych "The Garden of Earthly
Delights". Friend
of Luther, he did propaganda for the Reformation in the form of
engravings and beautiful paintings and pulpits in churches. The Russian painter famous
for his blue colors and Old Testament themes also
traveled the world and completed beautiful stained-glass windows in
churches, hospitals and public buildings. We
can follow the flow of early 20th century through this artist, who
captured the hustle and bustle of Berlin and then the horrors of the
front after serving in WW I. Difficult to classify,
primitive art, surrealism, cubism, and children's art all seem blended into his
small-scale, delicate paintings, watercolors, and
drawings. One of the founders of the
surrealist movement, the eccentric Catalonian continues
to haunt us with his images from the subconscious, dreams, and
nightmares. The Dutch
artist closely associated with the sun of Southern France died almost unknown but has since become the best known artist of
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