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Foreign artists

Lorenzetti Ambrogio
(1319-1348)
Country: Italy

The paintings of Lorenzetti harmoniously combined the traditions of Sienese painting with its lyricism and the generalization of forms and the perspectiveness of spatial construction characteristic of Giotto's art. Although the artist uses religious and allegorical subjects, the features of contemporary life clearly appear in the paintings. The conditional landscape, characteristic of the paintings of the 14th century masters, is replaced by Lorenzetti with recognizable Tuscan landscapes. Very realistic, he writes vineyards, fields, lakes, sea harbors, surrounded by impregnable rocks.

Eik Wang
Country: Netherlands

The homeland of the Van Eyck brothers is the city of Maaseik. Little information has been preserved about the elder brother Hubert. It is known that it was he who began work on the famous Ghent altar in the church of St. Bavo in Ghent. Probably, the compositional design of the altar belonged to him. Judging by the preserved archaic parts of the altar - "Lamb Worship", figures of God the Father, Mary and John the Baptist, - Hubert can be called a master of transition. His work was much closer to the traditions of late Gothic (abstract-mystical interpretation of the theme, conventionality in the transfer of space, little expressed interest in the image of a person).

Foreign artists

Albrecht Dürer
(1471-1528)
Country: Germany

Albrecht Dürer, the great German artist, the largest representative of the Renaissance culture in Germany. Born in Nuremberg in the family of a goldsmith, a native of Hungary. Initially, he studied with his father, then with the Nuremberg painter M. Wohlgemut (1486-89). During the years of study and during the years of wanderings in southern Germany (1490-94), during a trip to Venice (1494-95) he absorbed the heritage of the 15th century, but nature became his main teacher.

Bosch Jerome
(1450-1516)
Country: Germany

Hieronymus Bosch, the great Dutch painter. Born in Herzogenbosch. His grandfather, grandfather's brother and all five uncles were artists. In 1478 Bosch married a wealthy patrician Aleid van Merwerme, whose family belonged to the highest aristocracy. There were no children from this marriage, and he was not particularly happy. Nevertheless, he brought material well-being to the artist, and, having not yet become sufficiently famous, Bosch could afford to paint the way he wanted.

Botticelli Sandro
(1445-1510)
Country: Italy

Real name - Alessandro da Mariano di Vanni di Amedeo Filipepi, the great Italian painter of the Renaissance. Born in Florence in the family of a tanner. Initially, he was sent to study with a certain Botticelli, a goldsmith, from whom Alessandro Filipepi got his last name. But the desire for painting forced him in 1459-65 to study with the famous Florentine artist Fra Philippe Lippi. Early works of Botticelli ( Adoration of the Magi, Judith and Holofernes and especially madonnas - Corsini Madonna, Madonna with a Rose, Madonna with Two Angels) were written under the influence of the latter.

Verrocchio Andrea
(1435-1488)
Country: Italy

Real name - Andrea di Michele di Francesco Choni, an outstanding Italian sculptor. Born in Florence. He was a famous sculptor, painter, draftsman, architect, jeweler, and musician. In each genre, he established himself as a master innovator, not repeating what his predecessors did.

Carpaccio Vittore
(c. 1455/1465 - c. 1526)
Country: Italy

Carpaccio Vittore (c. 1455 / 1465 - c. 1526) - Italian painter. Born in Venice. He studied under Gentile Bellini, was strongly influenced by Giovanni Bellini and partly by Giorgione. Carefully observing the events of modern life, this artist was able to saturate his religious compositions with a lively narrative and many genre details. In fact, he created an encyclopedia of the life and customs of Venice in the 15th century. They say about Carpaccio that this master is "still at home, in Venice." And even the very idea of ​​Venice is inseparably linked with the memory of the greenish, as if visible through the sea water, pictures of the brilliant draftsman and colorist.

Leonardo da Vinci
(1452 - 1519)
Country: Italy

One of the greatest Italian Renaissance artists, Leonardo da Vinci was also an outstanding scientist, thinker and engineer. All his life he observed and studied nature - the heavenly bodies and the laws of their movement, the mountains and the secrets of their origin, water and winds, the light of the sun and the life of plants. As part of nature, Leonardo also considered a person whose body is subject to physical laws and at the same time serves as a “mirror of the soul”. He showed his inquisitive, active, restless love for nature in everything. It was she who helped him discover the laws of nature, put her forces at the service of man, it was she who made Leonardo the greatest artist, with equal attention capturing a blossoming flower, an expressive gesture of a person and a foggy haze that envelops distant mountains.

Michelangelo Buonarroti
(1475 - 1564)
Country: Italy

“A man has not yet been born who, like me, would be so inclined to love people,” the great Italian sculptor, painter, architect and poet Michelangelo wrote about himself. He created brilliant, titanic works and dreamed of creating even more significant ones. One day, when the artist was working on marble developments in Carrara, he decided to carve a statue from a whole mountain.

Rafael Santi
(1483 - 1520)
Country: Italy

Raphael Santi, great Italian Renaissance painter and architect. Born in Urbino in the family of J. Santi - court painter and poet of the Duke of Urbino. He received his first painting lessons from his father. When he died, Rafael moved to T. Viti's studio. In 1500 he moved to Perugio and entered the workshop of Perugino, first as a student, and then as an assistant. Here he learned the best features of the style of the Umbrian school of painting: the desire for an expressive interpretation of the plot and the nobility of forms. Soon he brought his skill to the point that it became impossible to distinguish a copy from the original.

Titian Vecellio
(1488- 1576)
Country: Italy

Born in Pieve di Cadoro - a small town on the border of the Venetian possessions in the Alps. He came from the Vecelli family, very influential in the town. During the war between Venice and Emperor Maximilian, the artist's father rendered great services to the Republic of St. Mark.

Foreign artists

Rubens Peter Paul
(1577 - 1640)
Country: Germany

Rubens Peter Paul, the great Flemish painter. "King of painters and painter of kings" was called the contemporaries of the Fleming Rubens. In one of the most beautiful corners of Antwerp, Rubens Hughes is still located - the artist's house, built according to his own design, and a workshop. About three thousand paintings and many wonderful drawings came out of here.

Goyen Jan Wang
(1596-1656)
Country: Holland

Goyen Jan van is a Dutch painter. Passion for painting manifested itself very early. At the age of ten, Goyen began to study drawing with the Leiden artists I. Swanenburg and K. Schilperort. The father wanted his son to become a glass painter, but Goyen himself dreamed of being a landscape painter, and he was assigned to study with the mediocre landscape painter Willem Gerrits in the city of Goorn.

Segers Hercules
(1589/1590 - c. 1638)
Country: Holland

Seghers Hercules is a Dutch landscape painter and graphic artist. He studied in Amsterdam with G. van Coninxloo. From 1612 to 1629 he lived in Amsterdam, where he was accepted into the guild of artists. Visited Flanders (c. 1629-1630). From 1631 he lived and worked in Utrecht, and from 1633 - in The Hague.

Frans Hals
(c. 1580-1666)
Country: Holland

The decisive role in the formation of national art at an early stage in the development of the Dutch art school was played by the work of Frans Hals, its first great master. He was almost exclusively a portrait painter, but his art meant a lot not only to the portraiture of Holland, but also to the formation of other genres. In the work of Hals, three types of portrait compositions can be distinguished: a group portrait, a commissioned individual portrait, and a special type of portrait images, similar in nature to genre painting, cultivated by him mainly in the 20s and early 30s.

Velasquez Diego de Silva
(1559-1660)
Country: Spain

Born in Seville, one of the largest art centers in Spain at the end of the 16th - beginning of the 17th century. The artist's father came from a Portuguese family who moved to Andalusia. He wanted his son to become a lawyer or a writer, but did not prevent Velazquez from painting. His first teacher was Fr. Herrera the Elder, and then - F. Pacheco. Pacheco's daughter became Velazquez's wife. In the workshop of Pacheco Velasquez was engaged in painting heads from life. At the age of seventeen, Velasquez received the title of master. The career of a young painter developed successfully.

Country: Spain

El Greco
(1541-1614)
Country: Spain

El Greco, real name - Domenico Theotokopuli, the great Spanish painter. Born into a poor but enlightened family in Candia, Crete. Crete at that time was a possession of Venice. He studied, in all likelihood, with local icon painters, who still preserved the traditions of medieval Byzantine art. Around 1566 he moved to Venice, where he entered the workshop of Titian.

Caravaggio Michelangelo Merisi
(1573-1610)
Country: Italy

Caravaggio Michelangelo Merisi, an outstanding Italian painter. The emergence and flourishing of the realistic trend in Italian painting of the late 16th - early 17th centuries is associated with the name of Caravaggio. The work of this remarkable master played a huge role in the artistic life of not only Italy, but also other European countries. The art of Caravaggio attracts us with great artistic expressiveness, deep truthfulness and humanism.

Carracci
Country: Italy

Carracci, a family of Italian painters from Bologna in the early 17th century, the founders of academism in European painting. At the turn of the 16th - 17th centuries in Italy, as a reaction to mannerism, an academic trend in painting took shape. Its main principles were laid down by the Carracci brothers - Lodovico (1555-1619), Agostino (1557-1602) and Annibale (1560-1609).

Brueghel Peter the Elder
(between 1525 and 1530-1569)
Country: Netherlands

Anyone who has read the wonderful novel by Charles de Coster, The Legend of Thiel Ulenspiegel, knows that the whole people participated in the Dutch revolution, in the struggle against the Spaniards for their independence, a cruel and merciless struggle. Just like Ulenspiegel, Peter Brueghel the Elder, one of the founders of realistic Dutch and Flemish art, was also a witness and participant in these events.

Van Dyck Anthony
(1599- 1641)
Country: Netherlands

Van Dyck Anthony, an outstanding Flemish painter. Born in Antwerp in the family of a wealthy businessman. Initially studied with the Antwerp painter Hendrick van Balen. In 1618 he entered the workshop of Rubens. He began his work by copying his paintings. And soon became the main assistant to Rubens in the performance of large orders. He received the title of master of the Guild of St. Luke in Antwerp (1618).

Poussin Nicolas
(1594-1665)
Country: France

Nicolas Poussin (1594-1665), an outstanding French painter, a leading representative of classicism. Born in the village of Andely in Normandy in the family of a small landowner. Initially, he studied in his homeland with a little-known, but rather talented and competent wandering artist K. Varen. In 1612 Poussin went to Paris, and there J. Aalleman became his teacher. In Paris, he became friends with the Italian poet Marine.

XVII (17th century)

Foreign artists

Cape Albert Gerrits
(1620-1691)
Country: Holland

Cape Albert Gerrits was a Dutch painter and etcher.

He studied with his father, the artist J. Keip. His artistic style was influenced by the painting of J. van Goyen and S. van Ruysdael. Worked in Dordrecht. The early works of Cuyp, close to the paintings of J. van Goyen, are monochrome. He paints hilly landscapes, country roads running into the distance, poor peasant huts. The paintings are most often made in a single yellowish tone.

Ruisdael Jacob van
(1628/1629-1682)
Country: Holland

Ruisdal Jacob van (1628/1629-1682) - Dutch landscape painter, draftsman, etcher. He probably studied with his uncle, the painter Salomon van Ruysdael. Visited Germany (1640-1650s). He lived and worked in Haarlem, in 1648 he became a member of the painters' guild. From 1656 he lived in Amsterdam, in 1676 he received the degree of doctor of medicine in the Treasury and entered the list of Amsterdam doctors.

Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn
(1606-1669)
Country: Holland

Born in Leiden to a miller's family. The father's affairs during this period were going well, and he was able to give his son a better education than other children. Rembrandt entered the Latin school. He studied poorly and wanted to paint. Nevertheless, he finished school and entered Leiden University. A year later, he began taking painting lessons. His first teacher was J. van Swanenburg. After staying in his studio for more than three years, Rembrandt went to Amsterdam to the historical painter P. Lastman. He had a strong influence on Rembrandt and taught him the art of engraving. Six months later (1623) Rembrandt returned to Leiden and opened his own workshop.

Terborch Gerard
(1617-1681)
Country: Holland

Terborch Gerard (1617-1681), famous Dutch painter. Born in Zwolle in a wealthy burgher family. His father, brother and sister were artists. Terborch's first teachers were his father and Hendrik Averkamp. His father made him copy a lot. He created his first work at the age of nine. At the age of fifteen, Terborch went to Amsterdam, then to Haarlem, where he came under the strong influence of Fr. Khalsa. Already at that time he was famous as a master of the everyday genre, he most willingly painted scenes from the life of the military - the so-called "guardrooms".

Canalletto (Canale) Giovanni Antonio
(1697-1768)
Country: Italy

Canaletto's first teacher was his father, theater decorator B. Canale, whom he helped design performances in theaters in Venice. He worked in Rome (1717-1720, early 1740s), Venice (since 1723), London (1746-1750, 1751-1756), where he performed works that formed the basis of his work. He painted veduts - urban landscapes, depicted streets, buildings, canals, boats sliding on the sea waves.

Manyasco Alessandro
(1667-1749)
Country: Italy

Alessandro Magnasco (1667-1749) was an Italian painter, genre and landscape painter. He studied with his father, the artist S. Magnasco, then with the Milanese painter F. Abbiati. His style was formed under the influence of the masters of the Genoese school of painting, S. Rosa and J. Callo. Lived and worked in Milan, Florence, Genoa.

Watteau Antoine
(1684-1721)
Country: France

Watteau Antoine, an outstanding French painter, whose work is associated with one of the significant stages in the development of everyday painting in France. The fate of Watteau is unusual. Neither in France nor in neighboring countries was there in the years when he wrote his best things, not a single artist capable of competing with him. The titans of the seventeenth century did not live to see the age of Watteau; those who, following him, glorified the eighteenth century, became known to the world only after his death. In fact, Fragonard, Quentin de La Tour, Perronneau, Chardin, David in France, Tiepolo and Longhi in Italy, Hogarth, Reynolds, Gainsborough in England, Goya in Spain - all this is the middle, or even the end of the 18th century.

Lorrain Claude
(1600-1682)
Country: France

Lorrain Claude (1600-1682) - French painter. At an early age he worked in Rome as a servant for A. Tassi, then became his student. The artist began to receive large orders in the 1630s, his customers were Pope Urban VIII and Cardinal Bentivoglio. Since that time, Lorrain has become popular in Roman and French art connoisseurs.

XVIII (18th century)

Foreign artists

Gainsborough Thomas
(1727- 1788)
Country: England

Gainsborough Thomas, an outstanding English painter, creator of the national type of portrait. Born in Sudbury, Suffolk, the son of a cloth merchant. The picturesque surroundings of the town, located on the River Stour, attracted Gainsborough from childhood, endlessly depicting them in his children's sketches. The boy's passion for drawing was so great that his father, without hesitation for a long time, sent his thirteen-year-old son to study in London, which at that time had already become the center of artistic life.

Turner Joseph Mallord William
(1775-1851)
Country: England

Turner Joseph Mallord William - English landscape painter, painter, draftsman and engraver. He took painting lessons from T. Molton (c. 1789), in 1789-1793. studied at the Royal Academy in London. In 1802, Turner was an academician, and in 1809, a professor in the academic classes. The artist traveled extensively in England and Wales, visited France and Switzerland (1802), Holland, Belgium and Germany (1817), Italy (1819, 1828). His artistic style was formed under the influence of K. Lorrain, R. Wilson and Dutch marine painters.

Jan Vermeer of Delft
(1632-1675)
Country: Holland

Jan Vermeer of Delft is a great Dutch artist. There is almost no information about the artist. Born in Delft in the family of a burgher who owned a hotel. He was also engaged in the production of silk and traded in paintings. Perhaps that is why the boy became interested in painting early. Master Karel Fabricius became his mentor. Vermeer soon married Katherine Bolney, the daughter of a wealthy burgher, and already in 1653 he was admitted to the guild of St. Luke.

Goya y Lucientes Francisco Hosse
(1746-1828)
Country: Spain

One day, little Francisco, the son of a poor altar gilder from a village near the Spanish city of Zaragoza, painted a pig on the wall of his house. A stranger passing by saw a genuine talent in a child's drawing and advised the boy to study. This legend about Goya is similar to those that are told about other masters of the Renaissance, when the true facts of their biography are unknown.

Guardi Francesco Lazzaro
(1712-1793)
Country: Italy

Guardi Francesco Lazzaro - Italian painter and draftsman, representative of the Venetian school of painting. He studied with his older brother, the painter Giovanni Antonio, in whose studio he worked with his younger brother Niccolò. He painted landscapes, paintings of religious and mythological themes, historical compositions. He worked on the creation of decorative decorations for the interiors of the Manin and Fenice theaters in Venice (1780-1790).

Vernet Claude Joseph
(1714-1789)
Country: France

Claude Joseph Vernet is a French painter. He studied first with his father A. Vernet, then with L. R. Viali in Aix and B. Fergioni, from 1731 - in Avignon with F. Sovan, and later in Italy with Manglar, Pannini and Locatelli. In 1734-1753. worked in Rome. In the Roman period, he devoted a lot of time to work from nature in Tivoli, Naples, on the banks of the Tiber. He painted landscapes and sea views ("Seashore near Anzio", 1743; "View of the bridge and castle of St. Angel", "Ponte Rotto in Rome", 1745 - both in the Louvre, Paris; "Waterfall in Tivoli", 1747; "Morning in Castellammare", 1747, Hermitage, St. Petersburg; "Villa Pamphili", 1749, Pushkin Museum, Moscow; "Italian harbor", "Sea coast with rocks", 1751; "Rocks near the sea", 1753 - all in the Hermitage, Saint Petersburg). These works amaze with their virtuosity in the transmission of the light and air environment and lighting, reliability and fine observation.

Vernet Horace
(1789-1863)
Country: France

Vernet Horace is a French painter and graphic artist. Studied under his father, Carl Vernet. Writing in the era of the heyday of the art of romanticism, the artist uses in his works the means inherent in the romantics. He is interested in a person in the power of natural elements, in extreme situations. Vernet depicts warriors fighting fiercely in battles, hurricanes and shipwrecks (“Battle at Sea”, 1825, Hermitage, St. Petersburg).

Delacroix Eugene
(1798 - 186)
Country: France

Born in Charenton in the family of the prefect. He received an excellent education. He studied painting first at the School of Fine Arts in Paris, then at the workshop of P. Guerin (1816-22), whose cold skill had less influence on him than the passionate art of the romantic T. Gericault, with whom he became close at the School. A decisive role in the formation of the pictorial style of Delacroix was played by copying the works of old masters, especially Rubens, Veronese and D. Velasquez. In 1822 he made his debut in Talon with a painting "Rook Dante"(“Dante and Virgil”) based on the plot from the first song of “Hell” (“The Divine Comedy”).

Gericault Theodore
(1791-1824)
Country: France

Born in Rouen in a wealthy family. He studied in Paris at the Imperial Lyceum (1806-1808). His teachers were K. J. Berne and P.N. Guerin. But they did not influence the formation of his artistic style - in the painting of Gericault, the tendencies of the art of A. J. Gros and J. L. David are traced. The artist visited the Louvre, where he made copies of the works of old masters, especially admired his painting by Rubens.

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Hiroshige Ando
(1797-1858)
Country: Japan

Born in Edo (now Tokyo) in the family of a petty samurai Ando Genemon. His father was the foreman of the city fire department, and the life of the family was quite secure. Thanks to early education, he quickly learned to understand the properties of paper, brush and ink. The general level of education of that time was quite high. Theaters, prints, ikeba-fa were part of everyday life.

Hokusai Katsushika
(1760-1849)
Country: Japan

Hokusai Katsushika is a Japanese painter and draftsman, master of color woodcuts, writer and poet. Studied with engraver Nakayama Tetsuson. He was influenced by the artist Shunsho, in whose studio he worked. He painted landscapes in which the life of nature, its beauty are closely connected with the life and activities of man. In search of new experiences, Hokusai traveled a lot around the country, making sketches of everything he saw. The artist sought to reflect in his work the problem of the relationship between man and the nature around him. His art is permeated with the pathos of the beauty of the world and the awareness of the spiritualized principle introduced by man into everything he comes into contact with.

Foreign artists

Bonington Richard Parkes
(1802-1828)
Country: England

Bonington Richard Parkes is an English painter and graphic artist. From 1817 he lived in France. He studied painting in Calais with L. Francia, from 1820 he attended the School of Fine Arts in Paris, where A. J. Gros was his teacher. From 1822 he began to exhibit his paintings in the Paris Salons, and from 1827 he took part in exhibitions of the Society of Artists of Great Britain and the Royal Academy of Arts in London.

Ensor James
(1860-1949)
Country: Belgium

Ensor James (1860-1949) Belgian painter and graphic artist. The artist was born and raised in the port city of Ostend, where he spent almost his entire life. The image of this seaside town with narrow streets inhabited by fishermen and sailors, with annual carnival carnivals and the unique atmosphere of the sea often appears in many of his paintings.

Van Gogh Vincent
(1853- 1890)
Country: Holland

Van Gogh Vincent, the great Dutch painter, a representative of post-impressionism. Born in the Brabant village of Groot Zundert in the family of a pastor. From the age of sixteen he worked for the Painting Company, and then as a teacher's assistant in a private school in England. In 1878 he got a job as a preacher in a mining area in southern Belgium.

Anker Mikael
(1849-1927)
Country: Denmark

Anker Mikael is a Danish artist. He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen (1871-1875), as well as in the workshop of the Danish artist P. Kreyer. Later in Paris he studied in the studio of Puvis de Cha-vannes, but this period was not reflected in his work. Together with his wife Anna, he worked in Skagen, in small fishing villages. In his works, the sea is inextricably linked with the images of Jutland fishermen. The artist depicts people in the moments of their hard and dangerous work.

Modigliani Amedeo
(1884-1920)
Country: Italy

How subtly and elegantly Anna Akhmatova spoke about Amedeo Modigliani! Still - she was a poet! Amedeo was lucky: they met in 1911 in Paris, fell in love with each other, and these feelings became the property of the art world, expressed in his drawings and her poems.

Eakins Thomas
(1844-1916)
Country: USA

He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Philadelphia (Pennsylvania) and at the School of Fine Arts in Paris (1866-1869). The formation of his artistic style was greatly influenced by the work of the old Spanish masters, which he studied in Madrid. Since 1870, the painter lived in his homeland, in Philadelphia, where he was engaged in teaching activities. Already in his first independent works, Eakins showed himself as a realist (Max Schmitt in a Boat, 1871, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; On a Sailboat, 1874; Sailing Boats on the Delaware, 1874).

Kent Rockwell
(1882-1971)
Country: USA

Kent Rockwell is an American landscape painter, draftsman, graphic artist, and writer. Studied with a representative of the plein air school of the artist William Merritt Chase in Shinnecock on Long Island, then with Robert Henry at the School of Art in New York, where he also attended the classes of Kenneth Miller.

Homer Winslow
(1836-1910)
Country: USA

Homer Winslow is an American painter and draftsman. He did not receive a systematic education, having mastered only the craft of a lithographer in his youth. In 1859-1861. attended the evening drawing school at the National Academy of Arts in New York. From 1857 he made drawings for magazines, during the Civil War (1861-1865) he collaborated in the illustrated weekly publication Harpers Weekly, for which he made realistic drawings with battle scenes, distinguished by expressive and strict forms. In 1865 he became a member of the National Academy of Arts.

Bonnard Pierre
(1867-1947)
Country: France

Bonnard Pierre - French painter, draftsman, lithographer. Born in the vicinity of Paris. In his youth, he studied law while drawing and painting at the École des Beaux-Arts and at the Académie Julian. He was fond of Japanese engraving. Together with the artists E. Vuillard, M. Denis, P. Serusier, they formed the core of a group that called itself "Nabi" - from the Hebrew word "prophet". The members of the group were supporters of symbolism less complex and literary than the symbolism of Gauguin and his followers.

Marriage Georges
(1882-1963)
Country: France

Marriage Georges - French painter, engraver, sculptor. In 1897-1899. studied at the École des Beaux-Arts in Le Havre, then at the Academy of Ember and at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris (1902-1903). His early work is marked by the influence of the Fauvists, especially A. Derain and A. Matisse. It was during this period that the artist most often turns to the landscape genre: he paints harbors, sea bays with boats, and coastal buildings.

Gauguin Paul
(1848-1903)
Country: France

Gauguin Paul (1848-1903), an outstanding French painter. representative of impressionism. Born in Paris. His father was an employee of the Nacional newspaper of a moderate republican persuasion. A change in political course forced him to leave his homeland in 1849. On a ship bound for South America, he died suddenly. Gauguin spent the first four years of his life in Lima (Peru) with his mother's relatives. At the age of 17-23, he served as a sailor, stoker, helmsman in the merchant and navy, sailed to Rio de Janeiro and other distant cities.

Degas Edgar
(1834-1917)
Country: France

Edgar Degas was a contradictory and strange person at first glance. Born in the family of a banker in Paris. The offspring of an aristocratic family (his real name was de Ha), he abandoned the noble prefix from his youth. He showed interest in drawing as a child. Received a good education. In 1853 he passed the bachelor's degree examinations and began to study jurisprudence. But already at that time he studied with the painter Barrias, then with Louis Lamothe. Like Édouard Manet, he was being groomed for a brilliant career, but he dropped out of law school for the School of Fine Arts.

Deren Andre
(1880-1954)
Country: France

Derain Andre - French painter, book illustrator, engraver, sculptor, one of the founders of Fauvism. He began painting in Shatu in 1895, his teacher was a local artist. In 1898-1900. studied in Paris at the Career Academy, where he met A. Matisse, J. Puy and A. Marquet. Very soon, Deren left the academy and began to study on his own.

Daubigny Charles Francois
(1817-1878)
Country: France

Daubigny Charles Francois - French landscape painter, graphic artist, representative of the Barbizon school. He studied with his father, the artist E. F. Daubigny, then with P. Delaroche. Influenced by Rembrandt. In the Louvre, he copied the paintings of the Dutch masters, his works by J. Ruisdal and Hobbema were especially attractive. In 1835-1836. Daubigny visited Italy, and in 1866 went to Holland, Great Britain and Spain. But these trips were practically not reflected in the artist's work, almost all of his works are devoted to French landscapes.

Dufy Raoul
(1877-1953)
Country: France

Dufy Raoul - French painter and graphic artist. He studied in Le Havre, in the evening classes of the Municipal Art School, where he taught Luye (1892-1897). Here Dufy met O. J. Braque and O. Friesz. During this period, he painted portraits of his family members, as well as landscapes similar to those of E. Boudin.

Isabey Louis Gabriel Jean
(1803-1886)
Country: France

Isabey Louis Gabriel Jean (1803-1886) - French romantic painter, watercolorist, lithographer. He studied with his father, miniaturist J.-B. Isabah. He was influenced by the painting of the English marine painters and the Lesser Dutch of the 17th century. Worked in Paris. In search of new experiences, Isabey visited Normandy, Auvergne, Brittany, Southern France, Holland, England, and accompanied an expedition to Algeria as an artist.

Courbet Gustave
(1819-1877)
Country: France

Courbet Gustave is an outstanding French painter, a wonderful master of a realistic portrait. "... never belonged to any school, to any church ... to any regime, but only to the regime of freedom."

Manet Edouard
(1832-1883)
Country: France

Edouard MANET (1832-1883), an outstanding French artist who rethought the traditions of narrative realistic painting. “Brevity in art is both a necessity and an elegance. A person who expresses himself briefly makes you think; a verbose person gets bored.

Marche Albert
(1875-1947)
Country: France

Marquet Albert (1875-1947) - French painter and graphic artist. In 1890-1895. studied in Paris at the School of Decorative Arts, and from 1895 to 1898 - at the School of Fine Arts in the workshop of G. Moreau. He painted portraits, interiors, still lifes, landscapes, among which are views of the sea, images of harbors and ports. In the landscapes created by the artist in the late 1890s - early 1900s. noticeably strong influence of the Impressionists, in particular A. Sisley ("Trees in Billancourt", ca. 1898, Musée des Arts, Bordeaux).

Monet Claude
(1840-1926)
Country: France

Monet Claude, French painter, founder of impressionism. "What I write is a moment." Born in Paris in the family of a grocer. He spent his childhood in Le Havre. In Le Havre, he began to make cartoons, selling them in a stationery shop. E. Boudin drew attention to them and gave Monet the first lessons in plein air painting. In 1859, Monet entered the Paris School of Fine Arts, and then at the Gleyer atelier. After a two-year stay in Algeria in military service (1860-61), he returned to Le Havre and met Jonkind. The landscapes of Ionkind, full of light and air, made a deep impression on him.

Pierre Auguste Renoir
(1841-1919)
Country: France

Pierre Auguste Renoir was born into the family of a poor tailor with many children, and from early childhood he learned to "live in clover" even when there was no piece of bread in the house. At the age of thirteen, he already mastered the craft - he painted cups and saucers at a porcelain factory. The paint-stained work blouse was on him even when he came to the School of Fine Arts. In Gleyre's atelier, he picked up empty paint tubes thrown by other students. Squeezing them to the last drop, he purred something carelessly cheerful under his breath.

Redon Odilon
(1840-1916)
Country: France

Redon Odilon - French painter, draftsman and decorator. In Paris, he studied architecture, but did not complete the course. For some time he attended the School of Sculpture in Bordeaux, then studied in Paris in the studio of Jerome. As a painter, he was formed under the influence of the art of Leonardo da Vinci, J. F. Corot, E. Delacroix and F. Goya. The botanist Armand Claveau played an important role in his life. Having a rich library, he introduced the young artist to the works of Baudelaire, Flaubert, Poe, as well as to Indian poetry and German philosophy. Together with Clavo Redon studied the world of plants and microorganisms, which was later reflected in his engravings.

Cezanne Paul
(1839-1906)
Country: France

Until now, one of the participants in the first exhibition on the Boulevard des Capucines, the most silent of the visitors to the Gerbois cafe, Paul Cezanne, has remained in the shadows. It is time to get closer to his paintings. Let's start with self-portraits. Let's take a closer look at the face of this high-cheeked bearded man, who looks like a peasant (when he is wearing a cap) or a sage scribe (when his steep, powerful forehead is visible). Cezanne was both one and the other, combining the peasant's stubborn industriousness with the probing mind of a research scientist.

Toulouse Lautrec Henri Marie Raymond de
(1864-1901)
Country: France

Toulouse Lautrec Henri Marie Raymond de, an outstanding French artist. Born in Albi in the south of France in a family that belonged to the largest aristocratic family, who once led the crusades. He showed talent as an artist since childhood. However, he took up painting after falling from a horse (at the age of fourteen), as a result of which he became disabled. Soon after his father introduced him to Prensto, Henri began to constantly come to the studio on the Rue Faubourg Saint-Honoré. For hours he could watch the artist draw or paint.

Foreign artists

Dali Salvador
(1904-1989)
Country: Spain

Dali Salvador, the great Spanish artist, the largest representative of surrealism. Born in Figueres (Catalonia) in the family of a famous lawyer. At the age of sixteen, Dali was sent to a Catholic college in Figueres. The Pichot family had a huge influence on the formation of his personality. All family members owned musical instruments, organized concerts. Ramon Pichot is a painter who worked in Paris and knew P. Picasso closely. In the house of Pichotov, Dali was engaged in drawing. In 1918, his first exhibition took place in Fegueras, favorably noted by critics.

Kalninsh Eduardas
(1904-1988)
Country: Latvia

Kalninsh Eduardas - Latvian marine painter. Born in Riga in the family of a simple craftsman, he began to draw early. The first teacher of Kalnins was the artist Yevgeny Moshkevich, who opened in Tomsk, where the boy's family moved at the beginning of the First World War, a studio for novice painters. After 1920 Kalniņš returned to Riga with his parents and in 1922 entered the Latvian Academy of Arts. Vilhelme Purvitis, a student of AI Kuindzhi, became his teacher.

Artists have always been highly valued, because they could pass on to the descendants of those whom they could not see. They helped to gain eternal life. In modern times, with the invention of the camera, artists have not lost their value. Among any profession there are some outstanding representatives who can be called the best. This top lists the best and most popular artists in the world.

• 10 Isaac Levitan

  Isaac Levitan is an excellent artist, originally from the Russian Empire. His life was quite difficult, as was the path that he had to overcome in order to become a first-class artist. But, thanks to his work, Levitan gave the world a large number of landscapes.

• 9 Auguste Renoir

  
  

  This French painter, sculptor and graphic artist was born in 1919 in Limonge. This brilliant artist is one of the first Impressionists to be successful among the rich citizens who inhabit the city of Paris, and his numerous works are exhibited in many galleries around the world.

• 8 Claude Monet

  
  

  Claude Monet was born in France, in the city of Paris in 1926. He is one of the most famous painters in the world, as well as one of the founders of impressionism. To this day, his work delights a huge number of people.

• 7 Salvador Dali

  
  

  This eccentric artist of the 20th century has been haunting our contemporaries for many years. His paintings are striking in their technique, but even more striking is what he depicted in his paintings. They frighten and confuse many, and delight many. Despite his controversial works, it can be said that Salvador Dali is one of the most famous artists in the world.

• 6 Michelangelo Buonarroti

  
  

  Michelangelo Buonarroti is one of the greatest artists of the Renaissance, known throughout the world. His life was long and eventful, and his works survived the centuries and gave him eternal life. His name to this day is associated with the name of the greatest artist on the planet.

• 5 Rafael Santi

  
  

  Raphael Santi is a famous renaissance painter. His works amaze the minds of many, and his technique is simply inimitable. He had a huge number of students, but none of them could achieve the same success as their teacher.

• 4 Jan Wermeer

  
  

  Jan Vermeer is a brilliant Dutch artist whose portraits amaze with their accuracy and originality. Even during his lifetime, he earned good money by creating portraits of wealthy customers. And now, his paintings are worth a fortune. Unfortunately, he did not pass on his skills to anyone, because he did not have a single student.

• 3 Pablo Picasso

  
  

  This outstanding artist is known to very many. And although not everyone understands the value of his paintings, one cannot deny the fact that he made a colossal contribution to the development of fine arts, and his paintings brought him a huge fortune.

• 2 Vincent van Gogh

  
  

  This Dutch artist is known not only for his extraordinary work, but also for mental disorders, which later led to his suicide. Unfortunately, in his life he managed to sell only one painting, but now his work is worth a lot of money.

• 1 Leonardo da Vinci

  
  

  This outstanding person is not only an excellent artist, but also a scientist and inventor. He was one of the most prominent representatives of his time. His paintings are known even to people far from art. His work has made a huge contribution to the development of human society.

Painting is an art that can be called eternal. At all times, the paintings made by the geniuses of the brush are sold at auctions for fabulous money, admire the talent of the author, become the decoration of houses, and are also a historical treasure as part of architectural structures (frescoes in the Sistine Chapel or stanzas decorating the Vatican palace complex). And the most famous artists deserve to be talked about and known, regardless of the direction in which they moved: impressionism, baroque, surrealism, renaissance and so on.

Top 12 Artists of All Time

He worked a little as a broker, but devoted all his free time to painting. He created his best creations during his stay in Tahiti, where he went after the global sale of his paintings.

Painting by Paul Gauguin "Bathers"

The artist suffered from terrible diseases, including syphilis and leprosy, but it was in such difficult times that he managed to create his best works. His Bathers (1902) sold for $55 million in 2005.

. Years of life: 1878–1935. He became the founder of Suprematism.

The most famous creation of the Russian genius is the Black Square.

Painting by Kazimir Malevich "Black Square"

And the “Suprematist composition”, created by Malevich in 1916, was sold for $60 million in 2008.

. Years of life: 1840–1926. The French genius is called the founder of impressionism. He loved nature, was engaged in gardening.

He had a special love for water lilies, to which he devoted a whole series of works - 60 canvases. In the paintings, Monet tried to show how beautiful a certain moment in nature is.

It was he who tried to capture in each of his creations. The Water Lily Pond, written in 1919, sold for $80.5 million in 2008.

. Years of life: 1881–1973. His work is associated with cubism. According to sources, Picasso began to work in this direction after receiving a response letter from the talented artist Paul Cezanne.

In it, the Frenchman advised Pablo to consider nature from the point of view of geometric figures: as a set of cones, spheres, cylinders. And although Cezanne recommended drawing the basic prototypes of future masterpieces in this way, Picasso took this too literally and began to create in a new style.

Painting by Pablo Picasso "Landscape on the Mediterranean Sea"

But the name of this direction was given by Henri Matisse, when he saw one of the creations of Picasso's colleague J. Braque and asked: “What are these cubes?”

Years of life: 1912–1956. For a long time he was looking for himself, until he created a completely new technique for creating paintings - by spraying paint on a canvas on the floor.

It was then that he received real recognition, presenting abstract expressionism in a new perspective. The artist lived for a long time with the less recognized artist Lee Krasner, who devoted herself to her husband.

She helped him, found buyers and experienced difficult moments of his life with him. Pollock's most famous painting, Number 5 (1948), sold at auction for $140 million in 2006.

Years of life: 1839–1906. The French genius created in the spirit of impressionism. His paintings are real and understandable, imbued with the spirit of romanticism and classicism.

They simply convey life, without the embellishments or symbolic touches found in other styles.

Painting by Paul Cezanne "Card Players"

The painting "The Card Players", which was sold in 2012 at an auction for a quarter of a billion dollars, was painted by Cezanne in 1895.

Years of life: 1452–1519. Even those who are completely far from art know this genius.

His most outstanding painting - "Mona Lisa", aka "La Gioconda", is in the Louvre and is not put up for auction.

Painting by Leonardo da Vinci "Mona Lisa"

Some sources claim that in every creation of da Vinci lies an encrypted message. For example, on the canvas "The Last Supper" the melody is clearly guessed if you draw a stave at the location of the hands of the apostles.

Years of life: 1475–1564.

The best creation of a genius is called the famous frescoes created on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel.

It is noteworthy that Michelangelo was the first among those who worked in Western European art, whose biography was written during his lifetime.

. Years of life: 1606–1669. He skillfully worked with the play of shadows and light.

He conveyed the world of human feelings and experiences in a special way.

Rembrandt's painting "The Night Watch"

He was fond of portrait painting. On his account - about 600 brilliant paintings.

. Years of life: 1483–1520. He worked during the Renaissance.

By genius, he is put on a par with Michelangelo and da Vinci. The world-famous stanzas of Raphael are located in the Vatican, in the Apostolic Palace.

The artist's best work, The School of Athens, also found its home here.

The names and works of these artists will be known for centuries.

10 Leonardo da Vinci (1492 - 1619)

Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci went down in history as an outstanding architect, inventor, researcher, philosopher, mathematician, writer, musician, and, of course, an artist. His masterpieces "Mona Lisa" and "The Last Supper" are known all over the world. They also note his merits in other sciences - in geology, astronomy and anatomy.

9 Raphael Santi (1483 - 1520)

The Italian Raphael Santi, a representative of the Renaissance (late 15th - early 16th centuries), was one of the greatest painters and architects. One of his famous works, The School of Athens, is now in the Vatican, in the Apostolic Palace. The name of Raphael stands next to the names of the great artists of the era, such as Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo.

8 Diego Velasquez (1599 - 1660)

Diego de Silva y Velasquez is famous for his portraits. The Spanish painter became popular thanks to a large number of works depicting the royal family, historical events and famous European personalities, which deserved to be considered one of the symbols of the golden age of painting. Velázquez worked on his paintings at the court of King Philip the Fourth, painting his most famous painting Las Meninas, depicting his family.

7 Pablo Picasso (1881 - 1973)

Compatriot Diego Velaquez Picasso made an invaluable contribution to the visual arts of the twentieth century. He laid the foundation for a completely new direction in painting - cubism. His painting and sculpture have given him the title of the best and "most expensive" artist of the last century. The number of his works cannot be counted - it is measured in tens of thousands.

6 Vincent van Gogh (1853 - 1890)

Sixth place in the ranking was taken by the well-known painter Vincent Willem Van Gogh from the Netherlands. Unfortunately, his fame as one of the most prominent post-impressionists, he acquired after his death. His works are distinguished by a unique, recognizable style. Van Gogh's paintings: landscapes, portraits and self-portraits are valued incredibly highly. During his life, Vincent van Gogn wrote more than 2100 works, among them his series of works "Sunflowers" is especially distinguished.

5 Michelangelo (1475 - 1564)

The Italian Michelangelo Buonarroti brilliantly became famous for his works in sculpture, painting, architecture. He is also a famous philosopher and poet, who had a huge impact on the entire culture of mankind. The creations of Michelangelo - the sculptures "Pieta" and "David" are among the most famous in the world. But his frescoes, which are on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, undoubtedly gained great fame. Michelangelo also designed the dome of St. Peter's Basilica, leaving his mark on architecture.

4 Masaccio (1401 - 1428)

The outstanding mystery artist Masaccio, about whose biography we know very little, made an invaluable contribution to the visual arts, inspiring many artists. The life of this artist ended very quickly, but even during this period of time, Masaccio left a great cultural heritage. His fresco "Trinity" in Italy, in the church of Santa Maria Novella in Florence, is one of the four surviving frescoes that have become world famous. There is an opinion that the rest of his works by Masaccio could not be preserved intact and were destroyed.

3 Peter Paul Rubens (1577 - 1640)

The “bronze” of our rating rightfully goes to Peter Paul Rubens, an artist from the Southern Netherlands who worked in the Baroque era and became famous for his special style. Rubens brilliantly conveyed colors on canvas, his paintings fascinated with their liveliness. Everyone, looking at his paintings, could find something of his own - in landscapes, portraits. Rubens also painted historical paintings that tell about myths or religious subjects. Carefully painted over four years, the triptych "Descent from the Cross" won the attention of the whole world. The special style of painting of Rubens glorified him all over the world.

2 Caravaggio (1571 -1610)

The second place in the rating was given to another Italian artist who worked in the early Baroque era, Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, who founded European realism. He liked to depict ordinary people from the streets on the canvas, carefully concentrating on important details: the play of light and shadow, colors and contrast. He depicted them in religious, holy images. As Caravaggio himself mentioned, he was proud of his Lute Player, written at the very end of the 16th century. Also mentioned are his paintings "Conversion of Saul", "Matthew the Evangelist", "Bacchus" and others.

1 Rembrandt (1606-1669)

The honorable first place is occupied by the world-famous Dutch artist Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn. The artist liked to experiment with chiaroscuro in his works. His works include about three thousand different paintings, drawings and etchings. At the moment, the State Museum of Amsterdam houses the most famous work of Rembrandt - the painting "Night Watch", completed in the middle of the seventeenth century and having gigantic dimensions - four meters.

Today we will find out a list of the best artists in the world that every self-respecting person should know. Get ready to be surprised and delighted by how many wonderful and talented people in the world create a real fairy tale around them! We will list the most prominent artists and very briefly look at some of them. Forward!

Great Artists of the World

Let's start with the fact that we will get acquainted with the ten most outstanding artists:

• Henri Matisse.
• Vincent Van Gogh.
• Pablo Picasso.
• Ivan Aivazovsky.
• Isaac Levitan.
• Jackson Pollock.
• Nikas Safronov.
• Claude Monet.
• Francis Bacon.
• Andy Warhole.

The first is Henri Matisse, who discovered his talent in a completely random way. His story is not like many typical stories, but is something very special. He began to draw at a conscious age. This happened after he, as a 20-year-old young man, underwent an appendectomy. A caring mother, in order to brighten up her son's everyday life, decided to give him paints. That's when it all started. Henri was so carried away by art that he decided to master professional skills.

The second famous artist is Claude Monet, who also had an interesting story, which will be discussed below. In no case should we forget about the genius of Pablo Picasso, who is known all over the world. The whimsical paintings of Vincent van Gogh are also loved by many. We must also not forget about domestic artists - Ivan Aivazovsky deserves a place of honor in our list.

We will consider these creators below in more detail. In the meantime, you need to get acquainted with the remaining five of the best! The great artists of the world, the list of which is simply impossible without the following geniuses, will begin with the name of Isaac Levitan. He is rightly called the discoverer of the beauty of Russian nature, which he portrayed divinely. It was his works that showed the whole world that Russia is a real pearl. Jackson Pollock completely revolutionized the public's views on the art world. Do you want to know what his secret was? And the fact that his work looked a little like paintings! More like paper, stained with paint during careless movement. And only the most observant viewer could see the whole world in Pollock's paintings.

Our top also includes contemporary artist Nikas Safronov, who is famous for painting many portraits of famous personalities. We must not forget about the cult person of pop art Andy Warhol, who drew his inspiration from everyday things and created masterpieces. And the list is completed by the expressionist artist Francis Bacon, who painted the human body. It is impossible to take your eyes off his work, it is impossible to remain indifferent.

Ivan Aivazovsky

The great artists of the world, the list of which is above, are associated with the name of Ivan Aivazovsky. Interestingly, he was of Armenian origin, and his real name was Hovhannes. Creativity has been everything for Ivan since childhood. Even then, he showed great interest and ability. In addition to drawing, he played the violin very well. Sea motifs are very noticeable in his work, and for good reason, because he was a famous lover and connoisseur of the sea. He depicted a calm and turbulent sea, shipwrecks, calm, breeze, etc. What are his paintings “Ice Mountains”, “Black Sea” and “Wave” worth.

Vincent Van Gogh

The great artists of the world and their paintings are a real treasure for all mankind. What a joy that anyone can admire the creations of the great! Our next hero is Vincent Van Gogh, an artist from the Netherlands. He created a huge number of paintings that can be enjoyed forever. His works are full of secrets, riddles and parallels. He began painting as an adult. In his youth, he was rather reserved and modest, often silent and flying in his thoughts. When he went to work, a thirst for drawing woke up in him. It so happened that every day he could observe the best works of art. Such a pastime left an imprint on his future work. After a painful failure in love, he decided to test himself, and it turned out that he really draws very well! After some hesitation, he left his former place of work in order to devote himself entirely to his beloved work.

Pablo Picasso

As already mentioned earlier, the great artists of the world and their paintings are a gift that people should cherish and pass on from generation to generation. The next great artist is Pablo Picasso. Everyone knows his name, only rare creators have achieved such popularity. Interestingly, his most famous painting "Nude, Green Leaves and Bust" is the most expensive painting in the world! He was not only a talented artist, but also an excellent designer, ceramist and graphic artist. Moreover, it is simply impossible to imagine the art of the last century without this genius. You will not believe it, but during his life he wrote 20 thousand works, each of which is a unique and charming world. This artist created from an early age, and his father taught him the skill. Pablo Picasso looked for inspiration in fairy tales that his mother composed for him.

Henri Matisse

We talked a little about this artist at the very beginning. I would like to add that the boy's father was categorically against such a "career". The greatest artists of the world have always gone to success through thorns. Despite the prohibitions, the young man still continued to gain experience. It is rather difficult to define his style, most of all it is similar to impressionism. It is worth admitting that at first Henri Matisse only copied famous paintings, but then he began to create masterpieces himself. His most famous paintings are Joy of Life, Conversation and Parisian Dance.

Claude Monet

The great artists of the world very often had difficult childhoods. Maybe after the hardships experienced, a “second wind” opens up? The famous artist Claude Monet was a difficult boy whom few people understood. In the classroom, he was engaged in painting the margins of notebooks with caricatures of teachers and classmates. He quickly became recognizable. At first they came to him in order to laugh, and then he began to take money for work. Claude Monet became a popular person who gave joy and laughter. Despite this, money was not an end in itself, and he earned pennies on this. After some time, he met a landscape painter who decided to take on the training of a guy. Only after this fateful meeting did his life change. Claude Monet truly fell in love with nature and skillfully portrayed it.

Now we know the names of the great artists of the world. They should always be remembered, because these are the "pillars" of art, on which modern culture rests. The great artists of the world gave us unforgettable masterpieces, for which we should say many thanks!