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Johannes Vermeer (/ vərˈmɪər, vərˈmɛər /; Dutch: [vərˈmeːr], see below; also known as Jan Vermeer; October 1632 – 15 December 1675) was a Dutch painter who specialized in domestic interior scenes of middle-class life. He is considered one of the greatest painters of the Dutch Golden Age. During his lifetime, he was a moderately ...
Detail of the painting The Procuress (c. 1656), proposed self portrait by Vermeer [1] The following is a list of paintings by the Dutch Golden Age painter Johannes Vermeer (1632–1675). After two or three early history paintings, he concentrated almost entirely on genre works, typically interiors with one or two figures. His popularity is due ...
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 ...
Edgar Degas (UK: / ˈdeɪɡɑː /, US: / deɪˈɡɑː, dəˈɡɑː /; [1][2] born Hilaire-Germain-Edgar De Gas, French: [ilɛːʁ ʒɛʁmɛ̃ ɛdɡaʁ də ɡa]; 19 July 1834 – 27 September 1917) was a French Impressionist artist famous for his pastel drawings and oil paintings. Degas also produced bronze sculptures, prints, and drawings.
Dimensions. 78 cm × 65.3 cm (30 + 3⁄4 in × 25 + 3⁄4 in) Location. Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago. American Gothic is a 1930 painting by Grant Wood in the collection of the Art Institute of Chicago. A character study of a man and a woman portrayed in front of a home, American Gothic is one of the most famous American paintings of the ...
Rain, Steam and Speed. Movement. Romanticism. Signature. Joseph Mallord William Turner RA (23 April 1775 – 19 December 1851), known in his time as William Turner, [ a ] was an English Romantic painter, printmaker and watercolourist. He is known for his expressive colouring, imaginative landscapes and turbulent, often violent marine paintings.
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa. Voice of Fire is a 1967 acrylic on canvas abstract painting made by American painter Barnett Newman in 1967. It consists of three equally sized vertical stripes, with the outer two painted blue and the centre painted red. The work was created as a special commission for Expo 67.
Henri Rousseau. Henri Julien Félix Rousseau (French: [ɑ̃ʁi ʒyljɛ̃ feliks ʁuso]; 21 May 1844 – 2 September 1910) [1] was a French post-impressionist painter in the Naïve or Primitive manner. [2][3] He was also known as Le Douanier (the customs officer), a humorous description of his occupation as a toll and tax collector. [1]