FAMOUS ARTISTS

Artists to know…

PABLO PICASSOSPANISH

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Guernica shows suffering people,

animals, and buildings wrenched

by violence and chaos

LEONARDO DA VINCI

ITALIANClick icon to add picture

Mona Lisa

The painting was commissioned for their

new home and to celebrate the birth of

their second son, Andrea in Tuscany, Italy.

VINCENT VAN GOGHDUTCHClick icon to add pictureStarry Night

Starry Night is one of his most famous paintings and has

become one of the most well known images in modern

culture. The painting shows the village of Saint-Rémy under a swirling sky, in a view from the

asylum towards north.

SALVADOR DALISPANISHClick icon to add picture

The Persistence of Memory

The well-known surrealist piece introduced the image of the soft melting pocket watch. "The soft

watches are an unconscious symbol of the relativity of space

and time, a Surrealist meditation on the collapse of our notions of a fixed cosmic order".

EL GRECOSPANISHClick icon to add picture

The Burial of the Count of Orgaz

An exceptionally large painting, it is very clearly divided into two sections, heavenly above and

terrestrial below, but it gives little impression of duality. The upper and lower sections are brought

together compositionally.

MICHELANGELOITALIANClick icon to add picture

The Last Judgment

It is a depiction of the second coming of Christ and the apocalypse. The souls of humans rise and descend to

their fates, as judged by Christ surrounded by his

saints.

AUGUSTE RODINFRENCHClick icon to add picture

The Thinker

It depicts a man in sober meditation battling with a

powerful internal struggle. It is often used to represent philosophy,

CLAUDE MONETFRENCHClick icon to add pictureWater Lilies

The paintings depict Monet's flower garden at Giverny and

were the main focus of Monet's artistic production

during the last thirty years of his life. Many of the works were painted while Monet suffered from cataracts.

JOHANNES VERMEER

DUTCH

Girl with a Pearl Earring

It is sometimes referred to as "the Mona Lisa of the

North" or

"the Dutch Mona Lisa".

EDGAR DEGASFRENCHClick icon to add picture

La Classe de DanseIn many subsequent

paintings dancers were shown backstage or in

rehearsal, emphasizing their status as professionals doing

a job.