Top 10 Artists / Painters of All Time

Paul Cézanne (US: /seɪˈzæn/ or UK: /sɪˈzæn/; French: [pÉ”l sezan]; 19 January 1839 – 22 October 1906) was a French artist and Post-Impressionist painter whose work laid the foundations of the transition from the 19th-century conception of artistic endeavor to a new and radically different world of art in the 20th century. Cézanne's often repetitive, exploratory brushstrokes are highly characteristic and clearly recognizable. He used planes of colour and small brushstrokes that build up to form complex fields. The paintings convey Cézanne's intense study of his subjects.

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_C%C3%A9zanne

Johannes Vermeer (/vÉ™rˈmɪər/;[3] Dutch: [joːˈɦɑnÉ™s fÉ™rˈmeːr];[4] October 1632 – December 1675) was a Dutch painter who specialized in domestic interior scenes of middle-class life. He was a moderately successful provincial genre painter in his lifetime but evidently was not wealthy, leaving his wife and children in debt at his death, perhaps because he produced relatively few paintings.

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johannes_Vermeer

Pierre-Auguste Renoir, commonly known as Auguste Renoir (/ˈrÉ›nwɑːr, rÉ™nˈwɑːr/; French: [pjɛʁ oÉ¡yst ʁənwaʁ]; 25 February 1841 – 3 December 1919), was a French artist who was a leading painter in the development of the Impressionist style. As a celebrator of beauty and especially feminine sensuality, it has been said that "Renoir is the final representative of a tradition which runs directly from Rubens to Watteau."[1] He was the father of actor Pierre Renoir (1885–1952), filmmaker Jean Renoir (1894–1979) and ceramic artist Claude Renoir (1901–1969). He was the grandfather of the filmmaker Claude Renoir (1913–1993), son of Pierre.

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre-Auguste_Renoir

Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino[2] (Italian: [raffaˈɛllo ˈsantsjo da urˈbiːno]; March 28 or April 6, 1483 – April 6, 1520),[3] known as Raphael (/ˈræfeɪəl/, US: /ˈræfiÉ™l, ËŒrɑːfaɪˈɛl/), was an Italian painter and architect of the High Renaissance. His work is admired for its clarity of form, ease of composition, and visual achievement of the Neoplatonic ideal of human grandeur.[4] Together with Michelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci, he forms the traditional trinity of great masters of that period.

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raphael

Pablo Ruiz Picasso (/pɪˈkɑːsoÊŠ, -ˈkæsoÊŠ/;[2] Spanish: [ˈpaβlo piˈkaso]; 25 October 1881 – 8 April 1973) was a Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, stage designer, poet and playwright who spent most of his adult life in France. Regarded as one of the most influential artists of the 20th century, he is known for co-founding the Cubist movement, the invention of constructed sculpture,[3][4] the co-invention of collage, and for the wide variety of styles that he helped develop and explore. Among his most famous works are the proto-Cubist Les Demoiselles d'Avignon (1907), and Guernica (1937), a dramatic portrayal of the bombing of Guernica by the German and Italian airforces during the Spanish Civil War.

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pablo_Picasso

Oscar-Claude Monet (/moʊˈneɪ/; French: [klod mÉ”nÉ›]; 14 November 1840 – 5 December 1926) was a French painter, a founder of French Impressionist painting and the most consistent and prolific practitioner of the movement's philosophy of expressing one's perceptions before nature, especially as applied to plein air landscape painting.[1][2] The term "Impressionism" is derived from the title of his painting Impression, soleil levant (Impression, Sunrise), which was exhibited in 1874 in the first of the independent exhibitions mounted by Monet and his associates as an alternative to the Salon de Paris.

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude_Monet

Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni or more commonly known by his first name Michelangelo (/ËŒmaɪkÉ™lˈændÊ’É™loÊŠ/; Italian: [mikeˈlandÊ’elo di lodoˈviːko ËŒbwÉ”narˈrɔːti siˈmoːni]; 6 March 1475 – 18 February 1564) was an Italian sculptor, painter, architect and poet of the High Renaissance born in the Republic of Florence, who exerted an unparalleled influence on the development of Western art.[1] Considered by some the greatest living artist during his lifetime, he has since been described as one of the greatest artists of all time.[1] Despite making few forays beyond the arts, his artistic versatility was of such a high order that he is often considered a contender for the title of the archetypal Renaissance man, along with his rival, the fellow Florentine and client of the Medici, Leonardo da Vinci.

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelangelo

Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn (/ˈrÉ›mbrænt, -brɑːnt/;[2] Dutch: [ˈrÉ›mbrÉ‘nt ˈɦɑrmÉ™(n)soːn vÉ‘n ˈrÉ›in] (About this sound listen); July 15, 1606[1] – October 4, 1669) was a Dutch draughtsman, painter and printmaker. An innovative and prolific master in three media,[3] he is generally considered one of the greatest visual artists in the history of art and the most important in Dutch art history.[4] Unlike most Dutch masters of the 17th century, Rembrandt's works depict a wide range of style and subject matter, from portraits and self-portraits to landscapes, genre scenes, allegorical and historical scenes, biblical and mythological themes as well as animal studies.

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rembrandt

Vincent Willem van Gogh (Dutch: [ˈvɪnsÉ›nt ˈʋɪlÉ™m vÉ‘Å‹ ˈɣɔx] (About this sound listen);[note 1] 30 March 1853 – 29 July 1890) was a Dutch Post-Impressionist painter who is among the most famous and influential figures in the history of Western art. In just over a decade he created about 2,100 artworks, including around 860 oil paintings, most of them in the last two years of his life. They include landscapes, still lifes, portraits and self-portraits, and are characterised by bold colours and dramatic, impulsive and expressive brushwork that contributed to the foundations of modern art. His suicide at 37 followed years of mental illness and poverty.

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vincent_van_Gogh

Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci (Italian: [leoˈnardo di ËŒsÉ›r ˈpjɛːro da (v)ˈvintʃi] (About this sound listen); 15 April 1452 – 2 May 1519), more commonly Leonardo da Vinci or simply Leonardo, was an Italian polymath of the Renaissance, whose areas of interest included invention, painting, sculpting, architecture, science, music, mathematics, engineering, literature, anatomy, geology, astronomy, botany, writing, history, and cartography. He has been variously called the father of palaeontology, ichnology, and architecture, and is widely considered one of the greatest painters of all time. Sometimes credited with the inventions of the parachute, helicopter and tank,[2][3][4] he epitomised the Renaissance humanist ideal.

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonardo_da_Vinci