A list of the most Appreciated Painters of all-time in Western Painting, the 100 most important painters of the history of western painting, from 13th century to 21st century. This list is on many websites. What do you think of the "Top 100" List ?
1.
PABLO PICASSO (1881-1973) – Picasso is to Art
History a giant earthquake with eternal aftermaths. With the possible
exception of Michelangelo (who focused his greatest efforts in sculpture
and architecture), no other artist had such ambitions at the time of
placing his oeuvre in the history of art. Picasso created the
avant-garde. Picasso destroyed the avant-garde. He looked back at the
masters and surpassed them all. He faced the whole history of art and
single-handedly redefined the tortuous relationship between work and
spectator
2.
GIOTTO DI BONDONE (c.1267-1337) – It has been
said that Giotto was the first real painter, like Adam was the first
man. We agree with the first part. Giotto continued the Byzantine style
of Cimabue and other predecessors, but he earned the right to be
included in gold letters in the history of painting when he added a
quality unknown to date: emotion
3.
LEONARDO DA VINCI (1452-1519) – For better or for
worse, Leonardo will be forever known as the author of the most famous
painting of all time, the "Gioconda" or "Mona Lisa". But he is more,
much more. His humanist, almost scientific gaze, entered the art of the
quattrocento and revoluted it with his sfumetto that nobody was ever
able to imitate
4.
PAUL CÉZANNE (1839-1906) –
"Cezanne is the father of us all."
This famous quote has been attributed to both Picasso and Matisse, and
certainly it does not matter who actually said it, because in either
case would be appropriate. While he exhibited with the Impressionist
painters, Cézanne left behind the whole group and developed a style of
painting never seen so far, which opened the door for the arrival of
Cubism and the rest of the vanguards of the twentieth century
5.
REMBRANDT VAN RIJN (1606-1669) – The fascinating
use of the light and shadows in Rembrandt's works seem to reflect his
own life, moving from fame to oblivion. Rembrandt is the great master of
Dutch painting, and, along with Velázquez, the main figure of 17th
century European Painting. He is, in addition, the great master of the
self-portrait of all time, an artist who had never show mercy at the
time of depicting himself
6.
DIEGO VELÁZQUEZ (1599-1660) – Along with
Rembrandt, one of the summits of Baroque painting. But unlike the Dutch
artist, the Sevillan painter spent most of his life in the comfortable
but rigid courtesan society. Nevertheless, Velázquez was an innovator, a
"painter of atmospheres" two centuries before Turner and the
Impressionists, which it is shown in his colossal 'royal paintings'
("Meninas", "The Forge of Vulcan"), but also in his small and memorable
sketches of the Villa Medici.
7.
WASSILY KANDINSKY (1866-1944) – Although the
title of "father of abstraction" has been assigned to several artists,
from Picasso to Turner, few painters could claim it with as much justice
as Kandinsky. Many artists have succeeded in painting emotion, but very
few have changed the way we understand art. Wassily Kandinsky is one of
them.
8.
CLAUDE MONET (1840-1926) – The importance of
Monet in the history of art is sometimes "underrated", as Art lovers
tend to see only the overwhelming beauty that emanates from his
canvases, ignoring the complex technique and composition of the work (a
"defect" somehow caused by Monet himself, when he declared that
"I
do not understand why everyone discusses my art and pretends to
understand, as if it were necessary to understand, when it is simply
necessary to love"). However, Monet's experiments, including
studies on the changes in an object caused by daylight at different
times of the day; and the almost abstract quality of his "water lilies",
are clearly a prologue to the art of the twentieth century.
9.
CARAVAGGIO (1571-1610) – The tough and violent
Caravaggio is considered the father of Baroque painting, with his
spectacular use of lights and shadows. Caravaggio’s chiaroscuro became
so famous that many painters started to copy his paintings, creating the
'Caravaggisti' style.
10.
JOSEPH MALLORD WILLIAM TURNER (1775-1851) –
Turner is the best landscape painter of Western painting. Whereas he had
been at his beginnings an academic painter, Turner was slowly but
unstoppably evolving towards a free, atmospheric style, sometimes even
outlining the abstraction, which was misunderstood and rejected by the
same critics who had admired him for decades
11.
JAN VAN EYCK (1390-1441) – Van Eyck is the
colossal pillar on which rests the whole Flemish paintings from later
centuries, the genius of accuracy, thoroughness and perspective, well
above any other artist of his time, either Flemish or Italian.
12.
ALBRECHT DÜRER (1471-1528) – The real Leonardo
da Vinci of Northern European Rennaisance was Albrecht Dürer, a restless
and innovative genious, master of drawing and color. He is one of the
first artists to represent nature without artifice, either in his
painted landscapes or in his drawings of plants and animals
13.
JACKSON POLLOCK (1912-1956) – The major figure
of American Abstract Expressionism, Pollock created his best works, his
famous drips, between 1947 and 1950. After those fascinating years,
comparable to Picasso’s blue period or van Gogh’s final months in
Auvers, he abandoned the drip, and his latest works are often bold,
unexciting works.
14.
MICHELANGELO BUONARROTI (1475-1564) – Some
readers will be quite surprised to see the man who is, along with
Picasso, the greatest artistic genius of all time, out of the "top ten"
of this list, but the fact is that even Michelangelo defined himself as
"sculptor", and even his painted masterpiece (the frescoes in the
Sistine Chapel) are often defined as 'painted sculptures'. Nevertheless,
that unforgettable masterpiece is enough to guarantee him a place of
honor in the history of painting
15.
PAUL GAUGUIN (1848-1903) – One of the most
fascinating figures in the history of painting, his works moved from
Impressionism (soon abandoned) to a colorful and vigorous symbolism, as
can be seen in his 'Polynesian paintings'. Matisse and Fauvism could not
be understood without the works of Paul Gauguin
16.
FRANCISCO DE GOYA (1746-1828) - Goya is an
enigma. In the whole History of Art few figures are as complex as the
artist born in Fuendetodos, Spain. Enterprising and indefinable, a
painter with no rival in all his life, Goya was the painter of the Court
and the painter of the people. He was a religious painter and a
mystical painter. He was the author of the beauty and eroticism of the
'Maja desnuda' and the creator of the explicit horror of 'The Third of
May, 1808'. He was an oil painter, a fresco painter, a sketcher and an
engraver. And he never stopped his metamorphosis
17.
VINCENT VAN GOGH (1853-1890) – Few names in the
history of painting are now as famous as Van Gogh, despite the complete
neglect he suffered in life. His works, strong and personal, are one of
the greatest influences in the twentieth century painting, especially in
German Expressionism
18.
ÉDOUARD MANET (1832-1883) – Manet was the origin
of Impressionism, a revolutionary in a time of great artistic
revolutions. His (at the time) quite polemical "Olympia" or "Déjeuner
sur l'Herbe" opened the way for the great figures of Impressionism
19.
MARK ROTHKO (1903-1970) – The influence of
Rothko in the history of painting is yet to be quantified, because the
truth is that almost 40 years after his death the influence of Rothko's
large, dazzling and emotional masses of color continues to increase in
many painters of the 21st century
20.
HENRI MATISSE (1869-1954) – Art critics tend to
regard Matisse as the greatest exponent of twentieth century painting,
only surpassed by Picasso. This is an exaggeration, although the almost
pure use of color in some of his works strongly influenced many of the
following avant-gardes
21.
RAPHAEL (1483-1520) – Equally loved and hated in
different eras, no one can doubt that Raphael is one of the greatest
geniuses of the Renaissance, with an excellent technique in terms of
drawing and color
22.
JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIAT (1960-1988) - Basquiat is
undoubtedly the most important and famous member of the "graffiti
movement" that appeared in the New York scene in the early'80s, an
artistic movement whose enormous influence on later painting is still to
be measured
23.
EDVARD MUNCH (1863-1944) – Modernist in his
context, Munch could be also considered the first expressionist painter
in history. Works like "The Scream" are vital to understanding the
twentieth century painting.
24.
TITIAN (c.1476-1576) – After the premature death
of Giorgione, Titian became the leading figure of Venetian painting of
his time. His use of color and his taste for mythological themes defined
the main features of 16th century Venetian Art. His influence on later
artists -Rubens, Velázquez...- is extremely important
25.
PIET MONDRIAN (1872 -1944) – Along with
Kandinsky and Malevich, Mondrian is the leading figure of early abstract
painting. After emigrating to New York, Mondrian filled his abstract
paintings with a fascinating emotional quality, as we can se in his
series of
"boogie-woogies" created in the mid-40s
26.
PIERO DELLA FRANCESCA (1416-1492) - Despite
being one of the most important figures of the quattrocento, the Art of
Piero della Francesca has been described as “cold”, “hieratic” or even
“impersonal”. But with the apparition of Berenson and the great
historians of his era, like Michel Hérubel -who defended the
“metaphysical dimension” of the paintings by Piero-, his precise and
detailed Art finally occupied the place that it deserves in the Art
history
27.
PETER PAUL RUBENS (1577-1640) – Rubens was one
of the most prolific painters of all time, thanks in part to the
collaboration of his study. Very famous in life, he traveled around
Europe to meet orders from very wealthy and important clients. His
female nudes are still amazing in our days
28.
ANDY WARHOL (1928-1987) – Brilliant and
controversial, Warhol is the leading figure of pop-art and one of the
icons of contemporary art. His silkscreen series depicting icons of the
mass-media (as a reinterpretation of Monet's series of Water lilies or
the Rouen Cathedral) are one of the milestones of contemporary Art, with
a huge influence in the Art of our days
29.
JOAN MIRÓ (1893-1983) – Like most geniuses, Miro
is an unclassificable artist. His interest in the world of the
unconscious, those hidden in the depths of the mind, link him with
Surrealism, but with a personal style, sometimes closer to Fauvism and
Expressionism. His most important works are those from the series of
"Constellations", created in the early 40s
30.
TOMMASO MASACCIO (1401-1428) – Masaccio was one
of the first old masters to use the laws of scientific perspective in
his works . One of the greatest innovative painters of the Early
Renaissance
31.
MARC CHAGALL (1887-1985) – Artist of dreams and
fantasies, Chagall was for all his life an immigrant fascinated by the
lights and colors of the places he visited. Few names from the School of
Paris of the early twentieth century have contributed so much -and with
such variety of ideas- to change modern Art as this man "impressed by
the light," as he defined himself
31.
GUSTAVE COURBET (1819-1877) – Leading figure of
realism, and a clear precedent for the impressionists, Courbet was one
of the greatest revolutionaries, both as an artist and as a
social-activist, of the history of painting. Like Rembrandt and other
predecessors, Courbet did not seek to create beauty, but believed that
beauty is achieved when and artist represents the purest reality without
artifice
33.
NICOLAS POUSSIN (1594-1665) – The greatest among
the great French Baroque painters, Poussin had a vital influence on
French painting for many centuries. His use of color is unique among all
the painters of his era
34.
WILLEM DE KOONING (1904-1997) – After Pollock,
the leading figure of abstract expressionism, though one of his greatest
contributions was not to feel limited by the abstraction, often
resorting to a heartbreaking figurative painting (his series of "Women"
are the best example) with a major influence on later artists such as
Francis Bacon or Lucian Freud
35.
PAUL KLEE (1879-1940) – In a period of artistic
revolutions and innovations, few artists were as crucial as Paul Klee.
His studies of color, widely taught at the Bauhaus, are unique among all
the artists of his time
36.
FRANCIS BACON (1909-1992) - Maximum exponent,
along with Lucian Freud, of the so-called "School of London", Bacon's
style was totally against all canons of painting, not only in those
terms related to beauty, but also against the dominance of the Abstract
Expressionism of his time
37.
GUSTAV KLIMT (1862-1918) – Half way between
modernism and symbolism appears the figure of Gustav Klimt, who was also
devoted to the industrial arts. His nearly abstract landscapes also
make him a forerunner of geometric abstraction
38.
EUGÈNE DELACROIX (1798-1863) – Eugène Delacroix is the French romanticism painter
"par excellence" and one of the most important names in the European painting of the first half of the 19th century. His famous
“Liberty leading the People” also demonstrates the capacity of Painting to become the symbol of an era.
39.
PAOLO UCCELLO (1397-1475) – “Solitary,
eccentric, melancholic and poor”. Giorgio Vasari described with these
four words one of the most audacious geniuses of the early Florentine
Renaissance, Paolo Uccello.
40.
WILLIAM BLAKE (1757-1827) – Revolutionary and
mystic, painter and poet, Blake is one of the most fascinating artists
of any era. His watercolors, prints and temperas are filled with a wild
imagination (almost crazyness), unique among the artists of his era
41.
KAZIMIR MALEVICH (1878-1935) – Creator of
Suprematism, Malevich will forever be one of the most controversial
figures of the history of art among the general public, divided between
those who consider him an essential renewal and those who consider that
his works based on polygons of pure colors do not deserve to be
considered Art
42.
ANDREA MANTEGNA (1431-1506) – One of the
greatest exponents of the Quattrocento, interested in the human figure,
which he often represented under extreme perspectives (
"The Dead Christ")
43.
JAN VERMEER (1632-1675) – Vermeer was the
leading figure of the Delft School, and for sure one of the greatest
landscape painters of all time. Works such as
"View of the Delft" are considered almost "impressionist" due to the liveliness of his brushwork. He was also a skilled portraitist
44.
EL GRECO (1541-1614) – One of the most original
and fascinating artists of his era, with a very personal technique that
was admired, three centuries later, by the impressionist painters
45.
CASPAR DAVID FRIEDRICH (1774-1840) – Leading
figure of German Romantic painting, Friedrich is still identified as the
painter of landscapes of loneliness and distress, with human figures
facing the terrible magnificence of nature.
46.
WINSLOW HOMER (1836-1910) – The main figure of
American painting of his era, Homer was a breath of fresh air for the
American artistic scene, which was "stuck" in academic painting and the
more romantic Hudson River School. Homer's loose and lively brushstroke
is almost impressionistic .
47.
MARCEL DUCHAMP (1887-1968) – One of the major
figures of Dadaism and a prototype of "total artist", Duchamp is one of
the most important and controversial figures of his era. His
contribution to painting is just a small part of his huge contribution
to the art world.
48.
GIORGIONE (1478-1510) - Like so many other
painters who died at young age, Giorgione (1477-1510) makes us wonder
what place would his exquisite painting occupy in the history of Art if
he had enjoyed a long existence, just like his direct artistic heir -
Titian.
49.
FRIDA KAHLO (1907-1954) – In recent years,
Frida's increasing fame seems to have obscured her importance in Latin
American art. On September 17th, 1925, Kahlo was almost killed in a
terrible bus accident. She did not died, but the violent crash had
terrible sequels, breaking her spinal column, pelvis, and right leg..
After this accident, Kahlo's self-portraits can be considered as quiet
but terrible moans
50.
HANS HOLBEIN THE YOUNGER (1497-1543) – After Dürer, Holbein is the greatest of the German painters of his time. The fascinating portrait of
"The Ambassadors" is still considered one of the most enigmatic paintings of art history
51.
EDGAR DEGAS (1834-1917) – Though Degas was not a
"pure" impressionist painter, his works shared the ideals of that
artistic movement. Degas paintings of young dancers or
ballerinas are icons of late 19th century painting
52.
FRA ANGELICO (1387-1455) – One of the great
colorists from the early Renaissance. Initially trained as an
illuminator, he is the author of masterpieces such as "
The Annunciation" in the Prado Museum.
53.
GEORGES SEURAT (1859-1891) - Georges Seurat is
one of the most important post-impressionist painters, and he is
considered the creator of the "pointillism", a style of painting in
which small distinct points of primary colors create the impression of a
wide selection of secondary and intermediate colors.
54.
JEAN-ANTOINE WATTEAU (1684-1721) – Watteau is
today considered one of the pioneers of rococo. Unfortunately, he died
at the height of his powers, as it is evidenced in the great portrait of
"
Gilles" painted in the year of his death
55.
SALVADOR DALÍ (1904-1989) – "I am Surrealism!"
shouted Dalí when he was expelled from the surrealist movement by André
Breton. Although the quote sounds presumptuous (which was not unusual in
Dalí), the fact is that Dalí's paintings are now the most famous images
of all the surrealist movement.
56.
MAX ERNST (1891-1976) – Halfway between
Surrealism and Dadaism appears Max Ernst, important in both movements.
Ernst was a brave artistic explorer thanks in part to the support of his
wife and patron, Peggy Guggenheim
57.
TINTORETTO (1518-1594) - Tintoretto is the most
flamboyant of all Venetian masters (not the best, such honour can only
be reclaimed by Titian or Giorgione) and his remarkable oeuvre not only
closed the Venetian splendour till the apparition of Canaletto and his
contemporaries, but also makes him the last of the Cinquecento masters.
58.
JASPER JOHNS (born 1930) – The last living
legend of the early Pop Art, although he has never considered himself a
"pop artist". His most famous works are the series of "
Flags" and "
Targets".
59.
SANDRO BOTTICELLI (1445-1510) – "If Botticelli
were alive now he would be working for Vogue", said actor Peter Ustinov.
As well as Raphael, Botticelli had been equally loved or hated in
different eras, but his use of color is one of the most fascinating
among all old masters.
60.
DAVID HOCKNEY (born 1937) - David Hockney is one
of the living myths of the Pop Art. Born in Great Britain, he moved to
California, where he immediately felt identified with the light, the
culture and the urban landscape of the 'Golden State'
61.
UMBERTO BOCCIONI (1882-1916) – The maximum
figure of Italian Futurism, fascinated by the world of the machine, and
the movement as a symbol of contemporary times.
62.
JOACHIM PATINIR (1480-1524) – Much less
technically gifted than other Flemish painters like Memling or van der
Weyden, his contribution to the history of art is vital for the
incorporation of landscape as a major element in the painting.
63.
DUCCIO DA BUONINSEGNA (c.1255/60 – 1318/19) –
While in Florence Giotto di Bondone was changing the history of
painting, Duccio of Buoninsegna provided a breath of fresh air to the
important Sienese School.
64.
ROGER VAN DER WEYDEN (1399-1464) – After Van
Eyck, the leading exponent of Flemish painting in the fifteenth century;
a master of perspective and composition.
65.
JOHN CONSTABLE (1776-1837) – John Constable
(1776-1837) is, along with Turner, the great figure of English
romanticism. But unlike his contemporary, he never left England, and he
devoted all his time to represent the life and landscapes of his beloved
England.
66.
JACQUES-LOUIS DAVID (1748-1825) – David is the
summit of neoclassicism, a grandiloquent artist whose compositions seem
to reflect his own hectic and revolutionary life.
67.
ARSHILLE GORKY (1905-1948) – Armenian-born
American painter, Gorky was a surrealist painter and also one of the
leaders of abstract expressionism. He was called "the Ingres of the
unconscious".
68.
HIERONYMUS BOSCH (1450-1516) – An extremely
religious man, all works by Bosch are basically moralizing, didactic.
The artist sees in the society of his time the triumph of sin, the
depravation, and all the things that have caused the fall of the human
being from its angelical character; and he wants to warn his
contemporaries about the terrible consequences of his impure acts.
69.
PIETER BRUEGEL THE ELDER (1528-1569) - Many
scholars and art critics claim to have found important similarities
between the works by Hyeronimus Bosch and those by Brueghel, but the
truth is that the differences between both of them are abysmal. Whereas
Bosch's fantasies are born of a deep deception and preoccupation for the
human being, with a clearly moralizing message; works by Bruegel are
full of irony, and even filled with a love for the rural life, which
seems to anticipate the Dutch landscape paintings from the next century.
70.
SIMONE MARTINI (1284-1344) – One of the great painters of the
Trecento, he was a step further and helped to expand its progress, which culminated in the "International Style".
71.
Frederic Edwin Church (1826-1900) - Church
represents the culmination of the Hudson River School: he had Cole's
love for the landscape, Asher Brown Durand's romantic lyricism, and
Albert Bierstadt's grandiloquence, but he was braver and technically
more gifted than anyone of them. Church is without any doubt one of the
greatest landscape painters of all time, perhaps only surpassed by
Turner and some impressionists and postimpressionists like Monet or
Cézanne.
72.
EDWARD HOPPER (1882-1967) – Hopper is widely
known as the painter of urban loneliness. His most famous work, the
fabulous "Nighthawks" (1942) has become the symbol of the solitude of
the contemporary metropolis, and it is one of the icons of the 20th
century Art.
73.
LUCIO FONTANA (1899-1968) – Father of the "White Manifesto", in which he stated that
"Matter, colour and sound in motion are the phenomena whose simultaneous development makes up the new art". His “
Concepts Spatiales” are already icons of the art of the second half of the twentieth century.
74.
FRANZ MARC (1880-1916) – After Kandinsky, the
great figure of the Expressionist group "The Blue Rider" and one of the
most important expressionist painters ever. He died at the height of his
artistic powers, when his use of color was even anticipating the later
abstraction.
75.
PIERRE-AUGUSTE RENOIR (1841-1919) – One of the key figures of Impressionism, he soon left the movement to pursue a more personal, academic painting.
76.
JAMES MCNEILL WHISTLER (1834-1903) – Along with
Winslow Homer, the great figure of American painting of his time.
Whistler was an excellent portraitist, which is shown in the fabulous
portrait of his mother, considered one of the great masterpieces of
American painting of all time.
77.
THEODORE GÉRICAULT (1791-1824) – Key figure in
romanticism, revolutionary in his life and works despite his bourgeois
origins. In his masterpiece,
"The raft of the Medusa",
Gericault creates a painting that we can define as "politically
incorrect", as it depicts the miseries of a large group of castaways
abandoned after the shipwreck of a French naval frigate.
78.
WILLIAM HOGARTH (1697-1764) – A list of the
great portrait painters of all time should never miss the name of
William Hogarth, whose studies and sketches could even qualify as
"pre-impressionist".
79.
CAMILLE COROT (1796-1875) – One of the great
figures of French realism in the 19th century and certainly one of the
major influences for the impressionist painters like Monet or Renoir,
thanks to his love for "plen-air" painting, emphasizing the use of
light.
80.
GEORGES BRAQUE (1882-1963) – Along with Picasso
and Juan Gris, the main figure of Cubism, the most important of the
avant-gardes of the 20th century Art.
81.
HANS MEMLING (1435-1494) – Perhaps the most
complete and "well-balanced" of all fifteenth century Flemish painters,
although he was not as innovative as Van Eyck or van der Weyden.
82.
GERHARD RICHTER (born 1932) – One of the most
important artists of recent decades, Richter is known either for his
fierce and colorful abstractions or his serene landscapes and scenes
with candles.
83.
AMEDEO MODIGLIANI (1884-1920) – One of the most
original portraitists of the history of painting, considered as a
"cursed" painter because of his wild life and early death.
84.
GEORGES DE LA TOUR (1593-1652) – The influence
of Caravaggio is evident in De la Tour, whose use of light and shadows
is unique among the painters of the Baroque era.
85.
GENTILESCHI, ARTEMISIA (1597-1654) – One of the
most gifted artists of the early baroque era, she was the first female
painter to become a member of the
Accademia di Arte del Disegno in Florence.
86.
JEAN FRANÇOIS MILLET (1814-1875) – One of the
main figures of the Barbizon School, author of one of the most emotive
paintings of the 19th century: The "
Angelus".
87.
FRANCISCO DE ZURBARÁN (1598-1664) – The closest
to Caravaggio of all Spanish Baroque painters, his latest works show a
mastery of chiaroscuro without parallel among any other painter of his
time.
88.
CIMABUE (c.1240-1302) – Although in some of his
works Cimabue already represented a visible evolution of the rigid
Byzantine art, his greatest contribution to painting was to discover a
young talented artist named Giotto (see number 2), who changed forever
the Western painting.
89.
JAMES ENSOR (1860-1949) – Violent painter whose strong, almost "unfinished" works make him a precursor of Expressionism
90.
RENÉ MAGRITTE (1898-1967) – One of the leading
figures of surrealism, his apparently simple works are the result of a
complex reflection about reality and the world of dreams
91.
EL LISSITZKY (1890-1941) – One of the main
exponents of Russian avant-garde painting. Influenced by Malevich, he
also excelled in graphic design.
92.
EGON SCHIELE (1890-1918) – Another "died too
young" artist, his strong and ruthless portraits influenced the works of
later artists, like Lucian freud or Francis Bacon.
93.
DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI (1828-1882) – Perhaps the
key figure in the pre-Raphaelite movement, Rossetti left the poetry to
focus on classic painting with a style that influenced the symbolism.
94.
FRANS HALS (c.1580-1666) – One of the most important portraitists ever, his lively brushwork influenced early impressionism.
95.
CLAUDE LORRAIN (1600-1682) – His works were a
vital influence on many landscape painters for many centuries, both in
Europe (Corot, Courbet) and in America (Hudson River School).
96.
ROY LICHTENSTEIN (1923-1977) – Along with Andy
Warhol, the most famous figure of the American Pop-Art. His works are
often related to the style of the comics, though Lichtenstein rejected
that idea.
97.
GEORGIA O'KEEFE (1887-1986) – A leading figure
in the 20th century American Art, O'Keefe single-handedly redefined the
Western American painting.
98.
GUSTAVE MOREAU (1826-1898) – One of the key figures of symbolism, introverted and mysterious in life, but very free and colorful in his works.
99.
GIORGIO DE CHIRICO (1888-1978) – Considered the father of metaphysical painting and a major influence on the Surrealist movement.
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FERNAND LÉGER (1881-1955) – At first a cubist,
Leger was increasingly attracted to the world of machinery and movement,
creating works such as "The Discs" (1918).
