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Michelangelo is one of the most famous artists of all time, known especially for his iconic mural painting of the Sistine Chapel. But Michelangelo wasn’t only a painter. He was a sculptor and an architect as well and – less known to many – he also wrote poetry. A Renaissance artist, he inspired many and still serves as an inspiration for young artists of the 21st century. Besides the work on the Sistine Chapel, Michelangelo also created the sculpture David and Pietà, the St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome, the famous carving of Moses on the tomb for Pope Julian II, and the design for the Laurentian Library at San Lorenzo’s Church. Twenty years later from his famous painting of the Sistine Chapel, he returned to create one of the greatest frescoes of the Renaissance, The Last Judgment.
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Mexican artist Frida Kahlo was a master of canvas and paint and one of the most iconic symbols of the feminist movement. Her works of art portray the grim reality of the world and life in general. She used her mastery to paint surrealistic portraits of herself, showing her vulnerabilities and her personal and physical suffering.
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Dutch painter Jan Vermeer is considered one of the most important figures in the history of arts. His works are vivid portrayals of still life and have an uncanny beauty to them, reason for which many considered that he used an obscure camera to capture his images.
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Edvard Munch’s The Scream is probably one of the most widely recognized paintings of all time, due to its iconic evocation of the feelings of angst and fear. Some even go as far as naming the painting the Mona Lisa of anxiety. Munch is seen as the one who contributed to the spread of Expressionism and he influenced artists such as Max Beckmann, Egon Schiele and Erich Heckel.
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With his bizarre mustache and outlandish appearance but mostly for his works of art, Salvador Dali continues to be widely recognized as the most odd artist of all times. During his life, he has influenced the workings of the Renaissance, but what usually comes to anyone’s minds when he’s mentioned are the melting clocks and eerie landscapes.
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The French painter Claude Monet was one of the founders of the French Impressionist movement and also a figure of Pop Art and Minimalism. Most of his paintings resemble the passing of seasons and the ways in which light modified the landscape, capturing it through prismatic shards of color in rapidly painted strokes. His most recognized paintings are Waterlilies, Women in Garden and Impression Sunrise.
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Rembrandt, also known as the Dutch Master, is one of the greatest painters and one of the biggest artists in all history, greatly admired for his mastery with which he crafted all his works of art. His paintings are admired for the vivid reality depicted and for the skillful illustration of his subjects’ inner feelings, through the careful play of facial expressions and the fall of light. He’s known for masterworks such as The Night Watch and Doctor Nicolaes Tulp’s Demonstration of the Anatomy of the Arm.
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The Spanish Pablo Picasso, known as a modern “cubist” painter, is considered a genius and one of the most important figures in the history of modern art. He was the one to change the very definition of classic art by introducing concepts such as the collage or the more important Cubism, impressing and inspiring various 20th century artists. His image is the one of the genius artist with a great appetite for living large. Some of his most famous works include Guernica, Bird of Peace and Woman with Fan.
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Vincent van Gogh was a Dutch post impressionist painter widely known for being mentally unstable – especially for cutting part of one of his ears – but also for his works of art, which are among the most famous and cherished of all time.
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Leonardo da Vinci, probably the most important Renaissance artist, is widely recognized as the most famous and influential artist of all time. He’s the genius behind the iconic Mona Lisa painting masterpiece, after all. Beyond painting, da Vinci was also a scientist and inventor and he created plenty of drawings of the human body and many modern technologies found in the world today. To say that he was a genius is not enough.
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