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Guernica. Guernica ( Spanish: [ɡeɾˈnika]; Basque: [ɡernika]) is a large 1937 oil painting by Spanish artist Pablo Picasso. [ 1][ 2] It is one of his best-known works, regarded by many art critics as the most moving and powerful anti-war painting in history. [ 3] It is exhibited in the Museo Reina Sofía in Madrid.
Great gold medal of the Exposition Universelle (1855) Sir Edwin Henry Landseer RA (7 March 1802 – 1 October 1873) was an English painter and sculptor, [ 1] well known for his paintings of animals – particularly horses, dogs, and stags. However, his best-known works are the lion sculptures at the base of Nelson's Column in Trafalgar Square.
David Mann ( September 10, 1940 — September 11, 2004) [2] was a California graphic artist whose paintings celebrated biker culture, and choppers. Called "the biker world's artist-in-residence," [5] his images are ubiquitous in biker clubhouses and garages, on motorcycle gas tanks, tattoos, and on T-shirts and other memorabilia associated with ...
George Stubbs. George Stubbs ARA (25 August 1724 – 10 July 1806) was an English painter, best known for his paintings of horses. Self-trained, Stubbs learnt his skills independently from other great artists of the 18th century such as Reynolds and Gainsborough. Stubbs' output includes history paintings, but his greatest skill was in painting ...
Don Quixote. Artist. Pablo Picasso. Year. 1955. Don Quixote is a 1955 sketch by Pablo Picasso of the Spanish literary hero and his sidekick, Sancho Panza. It was featured on the August 18–24 issue of the French weekly journal Les Lettres Françaises in celebration of the 350th anniversary of the first part, published in 1605, of the Miguel de ...
Franz Moritz Wilhelm Marc (8 February 1880 – 4 March 1916) [ 1] was a German painter and printmaker, one of the key figures of German Expressionism. He was a founding member of Der Blaue Reiter (The Blue Rider), a journal whose name later became synonymous with the circle of artists collaborating in it. His mature works mostly are animals ...
Horses in art. George Stubbs, Whistlejacket, c. 1762, National Gallery, London. Horses have appeared in works of art throughout history, frequently as depictions of the horse in battle. The horse appears less frequently in modern art, partly because the horse is no longer significant either as a mode of transportation or as an implement of war.
Pablo Ruiz Picasso[a][b](25 October 1881 – 8 April 1973) was a Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, and theatre designerwho spent most of his adult life in France. One of the most influential artists of the 20th century, he is known for co-founding the Cubistmovement, the invention of constructed sculpture,[8][9]the co-invention ...