Famous Artists and his picture

Would you like to learn more about some famous artists? This is a great place to start. We have included some information about our favorite ones. Take a look at the ones we wrote about. Look for your favorite and learn about new ones! There is a lot of information from when they were born to when they died, and important facts about their lives and artwork. Enjoy reading and learning about our favorite artists!
-Leonardo Da Vinci -
In 1452, Leonardo Da Vinci was born in an Italian town called Vinci. He lived in a time period called the Renaissance, when everyone was interested in art. Even though Da Vinci was a great artist, he became famous because of all the other things he could do. He was a sculptor, a scientist, an inventor, an architect, a musician, and a mathematician. When he was twenty, he helped his teacher finish a painting called The Baptism of Christ. When he was thirty, he moved to Milan. That is where he painted most of his pictures. DaVinci's paintings were done in the Realist style.
The Last Supper
Madonna and Child
The Virgin of the Rocks

-Pablo Picasso-
Pablo Picasso was born in Malaga, Spain on October 5, 1881. His father, Jose Ruiz, was also an artist. Picasso painted in many styles, including Cubism and Expressionism. He also sculpted. In cubism, he tried to show the dimensions of the objects in his paintings. When he painted in the classical style, his shapes were round and soft. In cubism, his shapes were square and hard.
When Picasso painted, he had a blue period and a rose period. For about three years in his early twenties, he used mostly light blue colors in his paintings. The rose period came after the blue period. It began after he moved from Spain to France.
Because he could work in multiple styles, Picasso became very famous. He used great lines and color in his paintings. --------->Guernica
--------------------------------Three Musicians
--------------------------------The Three Dancers
--------------------------------Self Portrait: Yo Picasso
-Pierre-Auguste Renoir -
Pierre-Auguste Renoir was born

February 25, 1841 in Limoges, France. When Renoir was young, he was a shoe tailor and a dress maker. When he was 13 be began decorating porcelain dishes. He was also close friends with Claude Monet.
Renoir believed that a person should work with his hands. He felt that working with his hands was what made him a working man. Some of his most famous paintings are portraits of women and groups of people. Renoir's paintings were done in the Impressionist style. People felt his use of color and light in his paintings, plus his talent for painting people, were what made his paintings so beautiful. -------->Le Bal au Moulin de la Galette
--------------------------------Jeanne Samary
--------------------------------Bathers
--------------------------------The Swing
-Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec -

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec's style was Realism and Postimpressionism. Lautrec liked painting people and things he knew. Some other things he liked to paint were posters of nightclubs and paintings of houses. ---------->Portrait of Vincent Van Gogh
--------------------------------Moulin-Rouge
--------------------------------At the Moulin Rouge
--------------------------------The Jockey

-Vincent Van Gogh-
Van Gogh was born in Holland in 1853. He worked at many jobs, such as at an art gallery, a school, a bookstore, as a preacher, and at last, he became an artist. He didn't have a very happy life. He painted sad paintings with poor people in them. His paintings were always very dark until he saw some colorful Japanese paintings. Then Van Gogh started painting happier paintings. Most of his work was in the Postimpressionist style.
One day, he moved to live with his brother because he was unhappy where he lived, and he wanted to find someone to paint with. When he finally found someone, he wished he hadn't. Van Gogh and the other artist did not get along. After this, Van Gogh became so sad that he cut part of his ear off! After these things happened, he painted one more gloomy painting. It was called Wheatfield with Crows. After he finished it, he shot himself. -->The Starry Night

-------------------------------Wheatfield with Crows

-Henri Rousseau-

Henri Rousseau was born in Laral, France in 1844. He served in the French Army and also worked as a toll collector. At the age of 40, Rousseau retired to paint. He also played the violin and gave art and violin lessons. He had no art schooling, but his paintings were admired by other artists of his time, such as Paul Gauguin and Georges Seurat. Seurat's paintings were done in the Surrealistic style. ------------>The Sleeping Gypsy
-------------------------------The Happy Quartet
-------------------------------Jungle with a Lion