Most Famous Artists

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Try these most famous artists with good detail on handpicked artists from hundreds of years of art, plus see full galleries of their paintings, with each painting ready to buy as reproduction online. They cover the following art movements, ranging from the middle ages up to the modern day.

Most Famous Art Movements

• Abstract
• Contemporary
• Modern Art
• Cubism
• Baroque
• Renaissance
• Romanticism
• Impressionism

Gustav Klimt was an Austrian Symbolist painter and one of the most prominent members of the Vienna Art Nouveau (Vienna Secession) movement. His major works include paintings, murals, sketches, and other art objects, many of which are on display in the Vienna Secession gallery. Klimt’s primary subject was the female body. Klimt’s most famous paintings include The Kiss.

Vincent Van Gogh’s Impressionist paintings are among the most famous oil paintings in the world. His Post-impressionist style remains popular with art lovers and his classic 19th century paintings are displayed in major exhibitions around the world.

Claude Monet was a founder of French impressionist painting. The term Impressionism is derived from the title of the painting Impression,

Pablo Picasso was a Spanish painter, abstract cubist artist and one of the most famous artists of all time. Picasso paintings include the likes of Guernica, Weeping Woman, Femme aux Bras & La Vie. is best known for co-founding the Cubist movement and for the wide variety of styles embodied in his work. Among his most famous works are the proto-Cubist Les Demoiselles d’Avignon (1907) and Guernica (1937), his portrayal of the German bombing of Guernica during the Spanish Civil War.

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