Famous Painters

Famous Portrait Artists
Portrait is a work of art, that a painter laboriously paints, to reveal the facial features, personality and the characteristics of his subject. Time has witnessed the creative masterpieces made by few men, who had that extraordinary talent of adding life to the portraits they created. Read on to know more about a few of the famous portrait artists who created masterpieces.

Nicolae Grigorescu - A Biography
A famous Romanian painter’s biography; learn from those who succeed because success comes most often after assiduous work.

Famous Painters
Art was depicted through various styles and forms since the ancient days. Here is a look at some famous painters who set trends and created a phenomenon in the world of art.

Famous Hispanic Painters
Here is a list of some of the very famous Hispanic painters. Read on to find more about their life and work.

Giovanni Bellini - Venetian Painter
Two of Bellini's pupils went on to be great artists in their own right – Giorgione and Titian – and quite transformed Venetian painting.

L.S. Lowry - British Painter
He used to carry along a sketchbook on his work rounds and every time something interesting caught his eye, he would stop and make a quick sketch.

Fra Angelico - Painter of the Early Renaissance
One of the most important painters of the Early Renaissance, Fra Angelico was a contemporary of Masaccio.

John Constable – English Landscape Painter
Constable had a stubbornly honest streak, combined with a strong self-belief, that kept him painting landscapes, regardless of public acknowledgment.

Richard Wilson - English Landscape Painter
There is a famous story about him telling King George III that it would be quite okay for His Majesty to pay in weekly installments when the King thought that 100 guineas per painting was just too bloody much.

El Greco - Cretan Painter
El Greco's works with their strangely elongated forms and tormented spirituality have led to many modern-day speculations regarding his mental health.

Andreas Mantegna – Painter of the Italian Renaissance
Mantegna preferred studying classical statues to observing from nature. Some of his contemporaries thought this gave his work a rather sculptural, lifeless appearance.

Albrecht Dürer - German Painter and Engraver
Dürer's beautifully detailed landscapes already show a keen interest and observation of nature. He was the first European artist to draw a Walrus.

Gustav Klimt - Viennese Painter
He painted the 'Goldfish' , a work intended to convey to his critics what he thought of them – the nude figure in the front seems to impart a singular message, "Kiss my ass."

Hieronymus Bosch - Painter of the Grotesque
No one before had shown in such fine detail the bestial horrors that awaited those that sinned, and it is a peculiarly human trait to include our neighbor rather than ourselves in the sinning fraternity.

Georges-Pierre Seurat – Neo-Impressionist Painter
Scientific precision and logical method, not instinct, appealed to Seurat. All his paintings were carefully mapped out beforehand.

Wu Tao-tzu - Tang Dynasty Painter
Wu Tao-tzu was a person who made up his own rules to a large extent and marched to his own drum-beat.

Edward Hopper - The American Realist Painter
Edward Hopper emerged as one of America's greatest realist scene painters. His realism, depiction of the mundane, and use of light and shadow effects were deeply appreciated and studied by critics. The posthumous exhibitions of his work held in Europe and America are proof of his immense popularity.

Renoir - A Famous Impressionist Painter
Pierre Auguste-Renoir was a renowned impressionist painter. The warm sensuality that characterizes his portraits has made them remarkable works of art. His unique use of light and color has been widely celebrated. Many of Renoir’s paintings depict people belonging to the contemporary middle class group relishing their moments of leisure. His paintings have often been reproduced, providing confirmation of the great popularity of his creations.

Celebrity Painters
Celebrity painters: famous contemporary actors and musicians who paint.

Manuel Reyes: Sculptor, painter and renaissance man from Oaxaca
Manuel Reyes is one of the brightest young lights on the Mexican art scene. His mixed media approach is interesting, refreshing and enables art aficionados to select from a broad range of styles, imagery, and pieces which combine aestheticism with pure utilitarianism. Both his sculptures and canvases employ clays and sands from throughout Mexico, in enabling him to create natural colors and wonderful texturing.

Canvas v camera
Britain's two most famous living painters - Lucian Freud and David Hockney - are very different in their brushes with publicity. Freud maintains complete silence, while Hockney opts for noisiness. Frequently in print or on television with some gee-whiz theory about how past painters worked, he has now declared war on photographers of war.

Osborne, Lavery And Leech (A Trio Of Famous Irish Painters)
Walter Osborne was born in 1859. He painted mainly in the French Brittany region of Quimperlé but moved to England in 1884.