1 – Georgia O’Keeffe
Georgia Totto O’Keeffe (November 15, 1887 – March 6, 1986) was an American artist. Born near Sun Prairie, Wisconsin, O’Keeffe was a major figure in American art from the 1920s.O’Keeffe played a central role in bringing an American art style to Europe at a time when the majority of influence flowed in the opposite direction. This feat enhanced her art-historical importance given that she was one of few women to have gained entry to this level of professional influence. She found artistic inspiration in the rural Southwest, particularly in New Mexico, where she settled late in life.
I really like the softness that O’Keeffe creates with the paint and the style that she paints creates a very feminine painting.
here are a few of her”flower” paintings…
2 – Claude Monet
Claude Monet (French pronunciation: [klod mɔnɛ]) also known as Oscar Claude Monet or Claude Oscar Monet (14 November 1840 – 5 December 1926) was a founder of French impressionist painting, and the most consistent and prolific practitioner of the movement’s philosophy of expressing one’s perceptions before nature, especially as applied to plein-air landscape painting. The term Impressionism is derived from the title of his painting Impression, Sunrise (Impression, soleil levant).
Claude Monet was a very talented artist, I thoroughly enjoy
the way that he would set up an easel and paint pictures from all seasons,
he would have many of the same images from different times of the
day such as the hay stack images and the lilies in his back garden.
Here are a few of my Favourite paintings..
3 – Edvard Munch
Edvard Munch (Norwegian pronunciation: [ˈmʉŋk], 12 December 1863 – 23 January 1944) was a Norwegian Symbolist painter, printmaker and an important forerunner of expressionistic art. His best-known composition, The Scream, is part of a series The Frieze of Life, in which Munch explored the themes of life, love, fear, death, and melancholy.
Edvard Munch was a very talented Expressionist,
his most famous painting would have to be the “scream”
I really like his use of colour and the style that he paints in.
Here are a few of his paintings including the “Scream”…
4 – Andy Warhol
Andrew Warhola (August 6, 1928 – February 22, 1987), more commonly known as Andy Warhol, was an American painter, printmaker, and filmmaker who was a leading figure in the visual art movement known as pop art. After a successful career as a commercial illustrator, Warhol became famous worldwide for his work as a painter, avant-garde filmmaker, record producer, author, and public figure known for his membership in wildly diverse social circles that included bohemian street people, distinguished intellectuals, Hollywood celebrities and wealthy aristocrats.
I love pop art as you might know from looking at my own paintings,
but Warhol used alot of printmaking so I guess that is the only
thing setting a difference between him and Litchenstein.
Here are some of his pieces along with the most famous Marilyn Monroe Print…
5 – Leonardo DaVinci
Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci, April 15, 1452 – May 2, 1519) was an Italian polymath, scientist, mathematician, engineer, inventor, anatomist, painter, sculptor, architect, botanist, musician and writer. Leonardo has often been described as the archetype of the Renaissance man, a man whose unquenchable curiosity was equaled only by his powers of invention. He is widely considered to be one of the greatest painters of all time and perhaps the most diversely talented person ever to have lived.
Da Vinci is very well known for the Mona Lisa painting,
I love his technique of painting, it was very neat and detailed.
Here are some of his paintings…
6 – Roy Lichtenstein
Roy Lichtenstein (October 27, 1923 – September 29, 1997) was a prominent American pop artist, his work heavily influenced by both popular advertising and the comic book style. He himself described Pop art as, “not ‘American’ painting but actually industrial painting”.
Again another pop artist which inspires me very much so.
I love the black outlines and benday dots used to shade.
here are a few of my favourites…
7 – Auguste Renoir
Pierre-Auguste Renoir (February 25, 1841–December 3, 1919) was a French artist who was a leading painter in the development of the Impressionist style. As a celebrator of beauty, and especially feminine sensuality, it has been said that “Renoir is the final representative of a tradition which runs directly from Rubens to Watteau”.
Impressionist Renoir has a very good eye for detail,
his images are all beautiful and very delicately painted.
I love the way that the colours blend in such a smooth way.
Here are a few of my favourites…
8 – Salvador Dali
Salvador Domingo Felipe Jacinto Dalí i Domènech, 1st Marquis of Púbol (May 11, 1904 – January 23, 1989) was a Spanish Catalan surrealist painter born in Figueres.Dalí was a skilled draftsman, best known for the striking and bizarre images in his surrealist work. His painterly skills are often attributed to the influence of Renaissance masters.His best-known work, The Persistence of Memory, was completed in 1931. Dalí’s expansive artistic repertoire includes film, sculpture, and photography, in collaboration with a range of artists in a variety of media.
Dali, known for his surrealist melting clocks is a very talented artist,
I love the detail that he put into the surreal characteristics of life,
from the elephants with spider legs to the melting clocks.
here are a few of my favourites…
9 – Edgar Degas
Edgar Degas(19 July 1834 – 27 September 1917), born Hilaire-Germain-Edgar De Gas (French pronunciation: [ilɛʀ ʒɛʁmɛ̃ ɛdɡɑʀ dœˈɡɑ]), was a French artist famous for his work in painting, sculpture, printmaking and drawing. He is regarded as one of the founders of Impressionism although he rejected the term, and preferred to be called a realist.
Edgar Degas is know for his paintings of ballet dancers.
One of my favourite and his most famous is called “two dancers”.
Here are a few of his paintings…
10 – Gustav Klimt
Gustav Klimt (July 14, 1862 – February 6, 1918) was an Austrian Symbolist painter and one of the most prominent members of the Vienna Secession movement. His major works include paintings, murals, sketches, and other art objects. Klimt’s primary subject was the female body,and his works are marked by a frank eroticism—nowhere is this more apparent than in his numerous drawings in pencil.
Gustav Klimt is known for one of his most famous images “the kiss”,
his work is also on the brand “GHD”(good hair day) I like the bright
colours used in his work and also the layering of patterns.
Here are a few of his pieces including “the kiss”…
