Artists Who Focus in Painting

Santiago Calatrava
Santiago Calatrava
Authors, Artists

Santiago Calatrava Valls is an internationally recognized and award-winning Valencian Spanish architect, sculptor and structural engineer whose principal office is in Zurich,...

László Moholy-Nagy
László Moholy-Nagy
Authors, Artists

László Moholy-Nagy (Hungarian pronunciation: [ˈlaːsloː ˈmoholiˌnɒɟ]), July 20, 1895, Bácsborsód – November 24, 1946) was a Jewish-Hungarian painter and photographer as well as professor in...

Egon Schiele
Egon Schiele
Artists, Authors

Egon Schiele was an Austrian painter, a protégé of Gustav Klimt, and a major figurative painter of the early 20th century....

Theodore Robinson
Theodore Robinson
Artists

Theodore Robinson was an American painter best known for his impressionist landscapes. He was one of the first American artists to take up impressionism in the late 1880s,...

René Magritte
René Magritte
Authors, Artists

René François Ghislain Magritte was a Belgian surrealist artist. He became well-known for a number of witty and thought-provoking images. Magritte was born in Lessines,...

Eva Hesse
Eva Hesse
Artists

Eva Hesse , was a German-born American sculptor, known for her pioneering work in materials such as latex, fiberglass, and plastics. Hesse was born into a family of observant...

John Atkinson Grimshaw
John Atkinson Grimshaw
Artists

John Atkinson Grimshaw (6 September 1836 – 13 October 1893) was a Victorian-era artist, a "remarkable and imaginative painter" known for his city scenes and landscapes. His early paintings...

Hieronymus Bosch
Hieronymus Bosch
Artists

Hieronymus Bosch was an Early Netherlandish painter...

Claude Monet
Claude Monet
Authors, Artists

Claude Monet also known as Oscar-Claude Monet or Claude Oscar Monet was a founder of French impressionist painting, and the most consistent...

Caroline Chariot-Dayez
Caroline Chariot-Dayez
Artists

Caroline Chariot-Dayez is a Belgian hyperrealistic painter. Although interested in painting from a very early age, she studied philosophy in order to understand what painting...

Edvard Munch
Edvard Munch
Artists, Authors

Edvard Munch was a Norwegian Symbolist painter, printmaker, and an important forerunner of expressionistic art. His best-known composition, The...

Max Ernst
Max Ernst
Authors, Actors & Actresses, Artists

Max Ernst was a German painter, sculptor, graphic artist, and poet, considered one of the chief representatives of Dadaism and Surrealism. Ernst was born in Brühl, Germany,...

Carlo Carrà
Carlo Carrà
Artists

Carlo Carrà was an Italian painter, a leading figure of the Futurist movement that flourished in Italy during the beginning of the 20th century. In addition to his many...

Marcel Janco
Marcel Janco
Artists

Marcel Janco was a Romanian-born Israeli painter and architect, and one of the founders of the Dada movement. Janco was born to a Jewish family in Bucharest. A friend and...

Georges de La Tour
Georges de La Tour
Artists

Georges de La Tour (March 13, 1593, Vic-sur-Seille – January 30, 1652, Lunéville) was a painter, who spent most of his working life in the Duchy of Lorraine, which became part of France the...

Andy Warhol
Andy Warhol
TV Actors & Actresses, Actors & Actresses, Artists, Authors

Andrew Warhola , known as Andy Warhol, was an American artist and a central figure in the movement known as pop art. After a successful career as a commercial illustrator,...

Alessandro Allori
Alessandro Allori
Artists

Alessandro di Cristofano di Lorenzo del Bronzino Allori (3 May 1535 - 22 September 1607) was an Italian portrait painter of the late Mannerist Florentine school. Born in Florence, in 1540...

Aristide Maillol
Aristide Maillol
Authors, Artists

Aristide Maillol was a French Catalan sculptor and painter. Maillol was born in Banyuls-sur-Mer, Roussillon. He decided at an early age to become a painter, and moved...

Albrecht Dürer
Albrecht Dürer
Artists, Authors

Albrecht Dürer was a German painter, printmaker and theorist from Nuremberg. His still-famous works include the Apocalypse woodcuts, Knight,...

Ambrosius Bosschaert
Ambrosius Bosschaert
Artists

Ambrosius Bosschaert the Elder (Antwerp, January 18, 1573–The Hague, 1621) was a still life painter of the Dutch Golden Age. He started his career in Antwerp, but spent most of it in...

Aelbert Cuyp
Aelbert Cuyp
Artists

Aelbert Jacobsz Cuyp was one of the leading Dutch landscape painters of the 17th century. The most famous of a family of painters, the pupil of his father Jacob Gerritsz....

Berthe Morisot
Berthe Morisot
Artists

Berthe Morisot was a painter and a member of the circle of painters in Paris who became known as the Impressionists. Undervalued for over a century, possibly because...

Caspar David Friedrich
Caspar David Friedrich
Artists

Caspar David Friedrich was a 19th-century German Romantic landscape painter, generally considered the most important of the movement. He is best known for his later allegorical...

Cecilia Beaux
Cecilia Beaux
Artists

Cecilia Beaux was an American society portraitist, in the nature of John Singer Sargent. She was a near contemporary of better-known American artist Mary Cassatt and also...

Cimabue
Cimabue
Artists

Cenni di Pepo (Giovanni) Cimabue (c. 1240 — c. 1302) also known as Bencivieni di Pepo or in modern Italian, Benvenuto di Giuseppe, was an Italian painter and creator of mosaics from...

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