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35 Most Famous Painters of All Time

April 29, 2022
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The following list of famous painters are some of the most recognizable names in art history. From the Renaissance through the Baroque, Realism era’s and then into all of the modern art movements the following famous names stand above all others. Gifted with other worldly talent and an insatiable drive for perfection they are responsible

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15 Most Famous Expressionist Artists and Painters

April 29, 2022
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Expressionism is a modernist trend that began in Northern Europe around the turn of the twentieth century, first in poetry and then art. Its distinguishing feature is to depict the world purely from a subjective point of view, distorting it dramatically for emotional impact in order to elicit feelings or thoughts. Expressionist painters aimed to

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10 Most Famous J. M. W. Turner Paintings

April 29, 2022
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Joseph Mallord William Turner RA (23 April 1775 – 19 December 1851), also known as William Turner at the time, was an English Romantic painter, printmaker, and watercolorist. He is well-known for his expressive colorizations, innovative landscapes, and stormy, sometimes violent maritime paintings. More than 550 oil paintings, 2,000 watercolors, and 30,000 works on paper

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11 Most Famous Pre-Raphaelite Artists

April 29, 2022
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The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood (after known as the Pre-Raphaelites artists) was an English painting, poet, and art critic organization. In 1848, William Holman Hunt, John Everett Millais, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, William Michael Rossetti, James Collinson, Frederic George Stephens, and Thomas Woolner founded a seven-member “Brotherhood” inspired in part by the Nazarene movement. The Brotherhood was always

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10 Most Famous Victorian Artists

April 29, 2022
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The Victorian era was the time of Queen Victoria’s rule in the United Kingdom, lasting from 20 June 1837 until her death on 22 January 1901. The era followed the Georgian period and before the Edwardian period. Ideologically, the Victorian era saw a shift away from the rationality that characterized the Georgian period and toward

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10 Most Famous Victorian Paintings

April 29, 2022
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Victorian art refers to the diverse types of painting that flourished in the United Kingdom during Queen Victoria’s reign (1837–1901). Victoria’s early reign was marked by fast economic progress and social and political revolution, which elevated the United Kingdom to the ranks of the world’s most powerful and advanced countries. Many artists anticipated that their

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10 Most Famous Garden Paintings

April 29, 2022
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Gardens are some of the most beautiful spaces that we have to enjoy particularly a well planned garden that bursting full of color in late spring and all through the summer months. The impressionists are responsible for some of the most colorful gardening paintings ever produced and their master of color and light is evident

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10 Most Famous Rain Paintings

April 29, 2022
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Many artists draw inspiration from the weather and the changing of the seasons. Paintings that feature rain will most always have a sense of melancholy or gloom about them as the sky darkens and the heavens open up. Weather affects all of us, everyday and in different ways, some love the sun while some run

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10 Most Famous Food Paintings

April 29, 2022
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For thousands of years, food paintings and images of appetizing objects have been recorded visually through the drawings and paintings of some of the very earliest human beings. From cave paintings of hunters to the ancient Egyptians carving crops and breads into tablets, to Dutch masters painting hyper-realistic still life’s in expensive oil paints, food

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10 Most Famous Desert Paintings

April 29, 2022
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While some artists remained in the comfortable studio’s others were drawn to the deserts of the world in particular the deserts of the Western United States and the deserts of the Arab world. Painters who worked “en plein air,” out from their studios, were able to better capture the unusual and sometimes desolate landscape’s delicate

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