Leonardo Da Vinci

Mona Lisa (La Gioconda)

Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa (also known as the Gioconda) is perhaps the most famous work of art in the world. Believed to be Lisa Gherardini, wife of Francesco del Giocondo, it was painted between 1503-1506 on a poplar panel. Now in the Louvre Museum in Paris, it was purchased by King Francis I of France. The painting's appeal lies in the mysterious expression of its subject, its complex composition and innovative techniques such as sfumato, which avoids sharp contours.
"Mona Lisa" refers to t...

Vincent Van Gogh

Starry Night (New York, MoMA)

"The Starry Night" is one of Vincent van Gogh's most renowned paintings, depicting a nighttime view from his sanitarium room window in Saint-Rémy-de-Provence. Although painted from memory during the day, it's based on a real view which Van Gogh sketched and painted in multiple variations. The painting has resided at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City since 1941.
In 1888, Van Gogh painted "Starry Night Over the Rhone," mentioning in his writings the comfort he derived from painting the sta...

Edvard Munch

The Scream

"The Scream" is a renowned composition by Norwegian artist Edvard Munch, created between 1893 and 1910 in four versions using paint, pastels, and lithographs. It depicts a figure with a distressed expression against a turbulent orange sky, set in Oslofjord, viewed from Ekeberg, Oslo. Originally titled "Der Schrei der Natur" (The Scream of Nature), it's become one of art's most emblematic images, symbolizing human anxiety. Munch was inspired by a sunset that turned the clouds "blood red", leading...

Sandro Botticelli

The Birth Of Venus

Grant Wood

American Gothic

American Gothic is a painting by Grant Wood in the collection of the Art Institute of Chicago. Wood's inspiration came from what is now known as the American Gothic House, and a decision to paint the house along with "the kind of people I fancied should live in that house." The painting shows a farmer standing beside his spinster daughter. The figures were modeled by the artist's sister and their dentist. The woman is dressed in a colonial print apron evoking 19th-century Americana, and the coup...

Pablo Picasso

Three Musicians

Three Musicians is a Synthetic Cubist painting, a perfect example of Pablo Picasso’s work and mastery. The frame has within it three musicians, two of which are dressed as characters from the popular Italian theatre Commedia dell'arte in a box room, resembling their stage. The canvas has a Pierrot, a Harlequin and the third is a monk. The Pierrot, said to represent Guillaume Apollinaire. dressed in a blue and white suit, playing a clarinet; the harlequin, s common stand-in for Picasso, dressed i...

Pablo Picasso

The Young Ladies of Avignon

Les Demoiselles d'Avignon (The Young Ladies of Avignon, and originally titled The Brothel of Avignon) is a large oil painting created in 1907 by the Spanish artist Pablo Picasso (1881–1973). The work portrays five nude female prostitutesfrom a brothel on Carrer d'Avinyó (Avinyó Street) in Barcelona. Each figure is depicted in a disconcerting confrontational manner and none are conventionally feminine. The women appear as slightly menacing and rendered with angular and disjointed body shapes. Two...

Michelangelo Buonarroti

The Creation of Adam

The Creation of Man is one of the most notable artworks from the Renaissance period, it is a fresco painted on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, commissioned by Pope Julius II. The fresco illustrates a passage from the bible, “God created man in His own image, in the image of God He created him" (Gen. 1:27) and portrays God as a bearded man with a cloak draping him and his hand extending to touch Adam's left hand but only their fingers meet in between. With God are twelve figures that have been...

Johannes Vermeer

The Girl with a Pearl Earring

The artwork Girl with a Pearl Earring, or "Het Meisje with de Parel" in Dutch, is one of Johannes Vermeer's (Dutch Painter) masterworks and has a pearl earring as a focal point, as the name suggests. The picture is now housed at The Hague's Mauritshuis museum. It's also known as or "the Mona Lisa of the North" or "the Dutch Mona Lisa".
According to more contemporary Vermeer research, the painting is a 'Tronie.' The term 'Tronie' refers to paintings from the 17th century in which facial expressio...

Gustave Klimt

The kiss

The Kiss was the last painting from Gustav Klimt’s Golden Period, during which he used gold leaf in his work. Klimt lived a Bohemian lifestyle and topics of sex and sensuality was common in his work, much to the publics disdain. Even The Kiss was considered pornographic even though the two figures were both completely clothed. The painting shows a couple in a loving embrace, the man’s face is not seen but he presses his face on the lady’s cheek, giving her a kiss. His form is large and he wears ...

Salvador Dali

The Disintegration of Persistence of Memory, 1952-54

La desintegración de la persistencia de la memoria or The Disintegration of the Persistence of Memory (oil on canvas, c. 1952 to 1954), is a painting by the Spanish surrealist Salvador Dalí. It is an oil on canvas re-creation of the artist's famous 1931 work The Persistence of Memory, and measures a diminutive 25.4 × 33 cm. In this version, the landscape from the original work has been flooded with water. Disintegration depicts what is occurring both above and below the water's surface. The land...

Diego Velazquez

Las Meninas or The Family of Philip IV

Francisco De Goya

The Third of May, 1808 The Execution of the Defenders of Madrid

The Third of May 1808 (also known as El tres de mayo de 1808 en Madrid, or Los fusilamientos de la montaña del Príncipe Pío, or Los fusilamientos del tres de mayo) is a painting completed in 1814 by the Spanish painter Francisco Goya, now in the Museo del Prado, Madrid. In the work, Goya sought to commemorate Spanish resistance to Napoleon's armies during the occupation of 1808. Along with its companion piece of the same size, The Second of May 1808 (or The Charge of the Mamelukes), it was commi...

Claude Monet

Water Lilies

Water Lilies (or Nymphéas, pronounced: [nɛ̃.fe.a]) is a series of approximately 250 oil paintings by French Impressionist Claude Monet (1840–1926). The paintings depict Monet's flower garden at Giverny and were the main focus of Monet's artistic production during the last thirty years of his life. Many of the works were painted while Monet suffered from cataracts.

The paintings are on display at museums all over the world, including the Musée Marmottan Monet and the musée d'Orsay in Paris, ...

Francisco De Goya

The Third of May 1808

Edouard Manet

Olympia

Though Manet's Le déjeuner sur l'herbe sparked controversy in 1863, his Olympia (1863) stirred an even bigger uproar when it was first exhibited at the 1865 Paris Salon. What shocked contemporary audiences was not Olympia's nudity, nor even the presence of her fully clothed maid, but her confrontational gaze and a number of details identifying her as a demi-mondaine or courtesan. These include the orchid in her hair, her bracelet, pearl earrings and the oriental shawl on which she lies. The blac...

Caravaggio (Michelangelo Merisi)

The Calling of Saint Matthew

The Calling of Saint Matthew is a masterpiece by Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, depicting the moment at which Jesus Christ inspires Matthew to follow him. It was completed in 1599-1600 for the Contarelli Chapel in the church of the French congregation, San Luigi dei Francesi in Rome, where it remains today. It hangs alongside two other paintings of Matthew by Caravaggio, The Martyrdom of Saint Matthew (painted around the same time as the Calling) and The Inspiration of Saint Matthew (1602)

Jackson Pollock

Number 1, 1949

No. 5, 1948 is a painting by Jackson Pollock, an American painter known for his contributions to the abstract expressionist movement. The painting was done on an 8' × 4' sheet of fiberboard, with thick amounts of brown and yellow paint drizzled on top of it, forming a nest-like appearance. It was originally owned by Samuel Irving Newhouse, Jr. and displayed at the Museum of Modern Art before being sold to David Geffen and then allegedly to David Martinez in 2006 (though the supposed sale of this...

Andy Warhol

Marilyn Diptych

Marilyn Monroe died in August 1962.
In the following weeks, Warhol made this masterpiece which contains fifty images of Marilyn, all based on the same publicity photograph from the 1953 film Niagara. Considered an iconic symbol of pop art, Marilyn Diptych was named the third most influential piece of modern art in a survey by The Guardian.

Georges Pierre Seurat

A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte

A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte – 1884 (French: Un dimanche après-midi à l'Île de la Grande Jatte - 1884) is one of Georges Seurat's most famous works, and is an example of pointillism.

Georges Seurat spent over two years painting A Sunday Afternoon, focusing meticulously on the landscape of the park. He reworked the original as well as completed numerous preliminary drawings and oil sketches. He would go and sit in the park and make numerous sketches of the various figu...

Hieronymus Bosch

The Garden of Earthly Delights

Hieronymus Bosch was a Northern Netherlandish and Renaissance painter. Not much is known about the artist but we can observe the influence of religion in his works which are full of Christian and biblical allusions. The exterior doors of the Triptych display the 'third day of creation, a biblical milestone. When opened, the painting is divided into three panels, the two side panels show the images of a paradise and hell respectively and in between is an enormous garden a 'false paradise’ – a pla...

Frida Kahlo

Frida Kahlo - `The Two Fridas`

Jan Van Eyck

Portrait of Giovanni Arnolfini and his Wife

Peter Paul Rubens

Descent from the Cross

The Elevation of the Cross is a triptych panel painting, depicting many rippling-muscled men lifting Jesus in the Cross. This painting clearly shows the influence of Michelangelo, Caravaggio, and Tintoretto, all of whose paintings influenced Rubens a great deal. Rubens completed the painting after returning to Flanders from Italy, after the death of his mother in 1608. This painting, along with The Descent of the Cross, was taken from Belgium by Napoleon, but they were later returned at the end ...

Rembrandt Van Rijn

Night Watch

The Night Watch or The Shooting Company of Frans Banning Cocq (Dutch: De Nachtwacht) is the common name of one of the most famous works by Dutch painter Rembrandt van Rijn.
The painting may be more properly titled The Company of captain Frans Banning Cocq and lieutenant Willem van Ruytenburch preparing to march out. It is prominently displayed in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, as the best known painting in its collection. The Night Watch is one of the most famous paintings in the w...

Rene Magritte

Time transfixed

Time Transfixed or "La Durée poignardée" in French was painted on a canvas with oil by the René Magritte, a famed Surrealist from Belgium. It is part of the permanent collection of the Art Institute of Chicago and is usually on display in the museum's new Modern Wing.

The painting was one of many done for surrealist patron and Magritte supporter Edward James. This was the second painting delivered to James for his London ballroom. He made this painting for his wife who died from a runaway t...

Eugène Delacroix

Eugene The Death of Sardanapalus

Wassily Kandinsky

Composition VIII

The observer is taken aback, while transitioning from the apocalyptic feeling of Composition VII to the mathematical rhythm of Composition VIII. Composition VIII, painted 10 years later in 1923, displays Kandinsky's impact of Suprematism and Constructivism while in Russia before to his return to Germany to teach at the Bauhaus. Kandinsky has switched from colour to form as the dominant compositional element in this painting. The huge circle in the top left now plays against the network of precis...

Caspar David Friedrich

The Sea of Ice

The Sea of Ice (German: Das Eismeer), also called The Wreck of Hope (German: Die gescheiterte Hoffnung) is an oil painting of 1823–1824 by the German Romantic artist Caspar David Friedrich.

The landscape depicts a shipwreck in the middle of a broken ice-sheet, whose shards have piled up after the impact. The ice has become like a monolithic tomb, or dolmen, whose edges jut into the sky.
The stern of the wreck is just visible on the right. As an inscription on it confirms, this is HMS Griper...

Michelangelo Buonarroti

Creation of Adam

The Creation of Man is one of the most notable artworks from the Renaissance period, it is a fresco painted on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, commissioned by Pope Julius II. The fresco illustrates a passage from the bible, “God created man in His own image, in the image of God He created him" (Gen. 1:27) and portrays God as a bearded man with a cloak draping him and his hand extending to touch Adam's left hand but only their fingers meet in between. With God are twelve figures that have been...

Marc Chagall

I and the Village

I and the Village is a 1911 painting by the Russian-French artist Marc Chagall. It is exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art, New York.The work contains many soft, dreamlike images overlapping one another in a continuous space. In the foreground, a cap-wearing green-faced man stares at a goat or sheep with the image of a smaller goat being milked on its cheek. In the foreground is a glowing tree held in the man's dark hand. The background features a collection of houses next to an Orthodox church...

Pablo Picasso

Guernica

Pablo Picasso's work Guernica is a masterpiece. During the Spanish Civil War, it was founded in response to the bombing of Guernica, a Basque Country hamlet in northern Spain, by German and Italian airplanes at the demand of Spanish Nationalist troops on April 26, 1937. Picasso was commissioned by the Spanish Republican government to design a big mural for the Spanish exhibit at the Paris International Exposition at the 1937 World's Fair in Paris.
This art has taken on a monumental significance,...

Vincent Van Gogh

Van Gogh's Bedroom in Arles (First version)

Van Gogh created three almost identical paintings on the theme of his bedroom. The first, in the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam, was executed in October 1888 and was damaged in a flood that occurred while the artist was in hospital in Arles. Almost a year later, Van Gogh made two copies of it: one, the same size, is now in the Art Institute in Chicago; the other, in the Musée d'Orsay, made for his family in Holland, is smaller.
In a letter to his brother Theo, Vincent explained what prompted him t...

James Abbott Mcneill Whistler

Arrangement in Grey and Black. Portrait of the Painter's Mother

Arrangement in Grey and Black No.1, famous under its colloquial name Whistler's Mother, is an 1871 oil-on-canvas painting by American-born painter James McNeill Whistler. The painting is 56.81 by 63.94 inches (144.3 cm × 162.4 cm), displayed in a frame of Whistler's own design in the Musée d'Orsay in Paris, having been bought by the French state in 1891. It is now one of the most famous works by an American artist outside the United States. It has been variously described as an American icon and...

Vincent Van Gogh

The Night Cafe

The painting ‘Night Café’ shows the dingy indoors of an all-night café which was frequently visited by prostitutes and by those who had no money for lodging or were too drunk to be taken in. The image shows tables and chairs, five customers on the left and right, a billiard table in the middle, the landlord in white clothes. Van Gogh uses the most contrasting colours in this painting, to portray the 'terrible passions of humanity. Van Gogh described the colours to his brother in a letter, as 'al...

Francisco De Goya

The Third of May 1808 (Execution of the Defenders of Madrid)

This painting shows Napoleon’s attack on Spain in 1808. Prior to this, most paintings showed war as being a glorious thing. This painting shows it as being cruel and subhuman (see how the soldiers look mechanical whereas the ones being shot look full of life).

Jean Michel Basquiat

Untitled - Skull, (Broad Collection, LA)

Basquiat’s signature style of painting with scribbles, symbols, words and sometimes violent brushstrokes. This painting, originally called ‘Untitled’, depicts the human head with lifeless eyes, almost like the head was lobotomised, lines around it like stitches with vibrant colours that contrast heavily with the facial expression. His use of skulls and heads are suggestive of African masks as his style is rooted in his identity as a Black American. Others suggest that it asserts vulnerability, t...

Leonardo Da Vinci

The Last Supper

The Last Supper is a 15th century mural painting in Milan created by Leonardo da Vinci for his patron Duke Ludovico Sforza and his duchess Beatrice d'Este. It represents the scene of The Last Supper from the final days of Jesus as narrated in the Gospel of John 13:21, when Jesus announces that one of his Twelve Apostles would betray him. All twelve apostles have different reactions to the news, with various degrees of anger and shock. In the 19th century, a manuscript (The Notebooks Leonardo Da ...

Vincent Van Gogh

Cafe Terrace on the Place du Forum, Arles, at Night

Café Terrace at Night, also known as The Cafe Terrace on the Place du Forum, is a coloured oil painting by Vincent van Gogh, painted in mid-September 1888 in Arles, France, on an industrially primed canvas of size 25 (Toile de 25 figure). The work is not signed, although the artist describes and mentions it in his writings on several times. A big pen sketch of the composition, which comes from the artist's estate, is also included.
Visitors to the location may still stand where the artist set up...

Pierre-Auguste Renoir

The Great Bathers (The Nymphs)

The Bathers (French: Les Baigneuses) is an oil painting on canvas made between 1918 and 1919 by the French painterPierre-Auguste Renoir. After being giving to the State by his three in 1923, it is currently kept at the Musée d'Orsay in Paris.

There are two groups of naked women: two models lying in the foreground plus three bathers in the background, on the right. One of the models of this painting is the Andrée Hessling, who became the first wife of Renoir's son, Jean. The natural setting ...

Anton Raphael Mengs

The School of Athens

The School of Athens is a fresco painted by Italian Renaissance artist Raffaello Sanzio Da Urbino, commonly known as Raphael. It is one of four frescoes in Stanza Della Segnatura that depict distinct branches of knowledge. The School of Athens is meant to represent philosophy. No contemporary document explains the fresco but many have suggested that nearly every ancient Greek philosopher is contained within it. Plato and Aristotle are said to be the central figures, placed in the centre. Plato h...

Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio Da Urbino)

The School of Athens (detail 1) (Stanza della Segnatura)

This wall painting, located in the Vatican, contains pictures of many famous philosophers. Plato and Aristotle are the two in the middle. As an inside joke, Raphael based Plato’s face on fellow artist Leonardo da Vinci. He also included Michelangelo and himself elsewhere in the painting.

Claude Monet

Water Lilies (or Nympheas)

Water Lilies (or Nympheas) is a series of approximately 250 oil paintings by French Impressionist Claude Monet (1840–1926).
The paintings depict Monet's flower garden at Giverny and were the main focus of Monet's artistic production during the last thirty years of his life. Many of the works were painted while Monet suffered from cataracts.

Henri Matisse

Harmony in Red

“Harmony in Red” is often held by critics and scholars to be Matisse’s magnum opus. A patron of post-impressionist art, Matisse borrowed a bunch of styles and techniques by artists like Van Gogh and Claude Monet. With the flat shades of Van Gogh and the fauvism of Monet, Matisse paints this work sans a point of focus. This painting was supposed to be dominated by the colour blue, but Matisse scraped that since he wasn’t happy with it. He intended this painting to be hung in the living of Sergey ...

Henri Julien Félix Rousseau (Le Douanier)

Sleeping Gypsy

The Sleeping Gypsy (French: La Bohémienne endormie) is an 1897 oil painting by French Naïve artist Henri Rousseau. It is a fantastical depiction of a lion musing over a sleeping woman on a moonlit night. Rousseau first exhibited the painting at the 13th Salon des Indépendants, and tried unsuccessfully to sell it to the mayor of his hometown, Laval. Instead, it entered the private collection of a Parisian charcoal merchant where it remained until 1924, when it was discovered by the art critic Lou...

Rene Magritte

The Menaced Assassin

The Menaced Assassin (French: L'Assassin menacé) is a 1927 oil on canvas painting by Belgian surrealist artist René Magritte.
The main subject of the painting, a blood-smeared nude woman, is seen lying on a couch. The assassin of the painting's title, a well-dressed man, stands ready to leave, his coat and hat on a chair next to his bag. He is however delayed by the sound of music, and in an unhurriedly relaxed manner, listens to a gramophone. In the meantime, two men armed with club and net wai...

Tiziano Vecellio (Titian)

The Venus of Urbino

Joan Miró

Ciphers and Constellations, in Love with a Woman

Applying Abstract Expressionist methods, Joan Miro painted “Ciphers and Constellations in Love with a Woman” in 1941, as a part of the 23-paintings series “Constellations”. Made using gouache, graphite, water colour and ivory-woven paper, this painting can be found at the Art Institute of Chicago, USA. Known for being an unofficial pioneer of the Surrealist style of painting, Miro also tried to navigate a linear style of ‘automatism’, which was about improvisation on canvas leading to an acute r...

Henri Matisse

The Dance

Amedeo Clemente Modigliani

Nude Sitting on a Divan

Nude Sitting on a Divan (The Beautiful Roman Woman) is an oil on canvas painting by Italian artist Amedeo Modigliani depicting a partially draped woman seated with crossed legs against a warm red background. The work was one of a series of nudes painted by Modigliani in 1917 that created a sensation when exhibited in Paris that year. On November 2, 2010, the painting sold at a New York auction for $68.9 million, a record price for an artwork by Modigliani

Edvard Munch

Melancholy

Edvard Munch believed that humans are helpless in the face of love and death, his symbolist paintings often depicted emotions of despair and anxiety. Melancholy is part of a series that Munch worked on after his friend Jappe Nilssen encountered a heartbreak after getting tangled in a love triangle with Oda Krohg, a married woman. He paints Nilssen from in profile position, sitting in angst on the shores of Asgardstrand that is painted with undulating lines, subdued colours and flat shapes that e...

Claude Monet

Gare Saint Lazare, Pari

When he painted The Saint-Lazare Station, Monet had just left Argenteuil to settle in Paris. After several years of painting in the countryside, he turned to urban landscapes. At a time when the critics Duranty and Zola exhorted artists to paint their own times, Monet tried to diversify his sources of inspiration and longed to be considered, like Manet, Degas and Caillebotte, a painter of modern life.

In 1877, settling in the Nouvelle Athènes area, Claude Monet asked for permission to work ...

Georgia Totto O'keeffe

Ram's Head, White Hollyhock-Hills

Andrea Mantegna

The Lamentation over the Dead Christ

The Lamentation of Christ (also known as the Lamentation over the Dead Christ, or the Dead Christ and other variants) is a painting of about 1480 by the Italian Renaissance artist Andrea Mantegna. While the dating of the piece is debated, it was completed between 1475 and 1501, probably in the early 1480s. It portrays the body Christ supine on amarble slab. He is watched over by the Virgin Mary and Saint John who cut-off profile is behind the Virgin Mary, who are weeping for his death.

The ...

Rene Magritte

The Son of Man

The Son of Man is a self-portrait commissioned in 1963 and he leaned towards a more Surrealist style. The painting has left many interpretations to be discussed. It consisted of a man, standing in front of a seaside with an apple in front of his face and features a bowler hat – a familiar motif in his work. The apple in front of him does not cover his full face, it leaves the sides uncovered and crating curiosity of what the man’s face may look like. When he was asked to shed light on its meanin...

Thomas Gainsborough

The Blue Boy (Jonathan Buttall)

The Blue Boy (c. 1770) is an oil painting by Thomas Gainsborough. Perhaps Gainsborough's most famous work, it is thought to be a portrait of Jonathan Buttall, the son of a wealthy hardware merchant, although this was never proved. It is a historical costume study as well as a portrait: the youth in his 17th-century apparel is regarded as Gainsborough's homage to Anthony Van Dyck, and in particular is very close to Van Dyck's portrait of Charles II as a boy. Gainsborough had already painted somet...

Max Beckmann

The Night

The Night is a 20th-century painting by German artist Max Beckmann, created between the years of 1918 and 1919. It is an icon of the post-World War I movement, Neue Sachlichkeit, or New Objectivity. It is an oil painting on canvas.

Three men appear to invade a small, cramped room, where they terrorize the scene. To the left, a man is hung by one of the intruders, and his arm twisted by another. A woman, seemingly the man's wife, is bound to one of the room's supports after having been raped...

Caravaggio (Michelangelo Merisi)

Narcissus

Currently kept in Rome’s Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Antica, “Narcissus” is a key painting in the career of the great Italian painter Caravaggio, who was regarded as a master of the Baroque Style. Caravaggio made only two paintings based on Classical Mythology, and this was one of them. As stated in Metamorphoses by Ovid, Narcissus is a charming young man who falls for a reflection of his own in the water. This story had traction in those circles formed by collectors. Two of these patrons include ...

Diego Velazquez

Las Meninas (detail)

This baroque painting is considered one of the most important of all-time. The central figure is the young Margarita Teresa of Spain but the painting also shows the artist himself, an image of the king and queen, several servants, two dwarfs, and a dog.

Artemisia Gentileschi

A. judith beheading holofernes, - (199x162.5)

Rose Maynard Barton

The Dream

Paul Gauguin

Nafeaffaa Ipolpo (also known as When Will You Marry.)

When Will You Marry? (Tahitian: Nafea faa ipoipo) is an oil painting from 1892 by the French Post-Impressionist artist Paul Gauguin. On loan to the Kunstmuseum in Basel, Switzerland for nearly a half-century, it was sold privately by the family of Rudolf Staechelin to an unknown buyer, reportedly to Qatar Museums, in February 2015 for close to $300m (£197m), the highest price ever paid for a work of art. The painting was on exhibition at the Fondation Beyeler, Riehen, until 28 June 2015

Arshile Gorky

Waterfall

The Waterfall is mid 20th century painting by Armenian American artist Arshile Gorky. The dimension of painting is 96.8 cm by 24 cm and is housed in Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington DC. It is an oil painting based on surrealism style and abstract genre.

Waterfall was developed from some actual scene. The figures in the painting are not distortions, nor do they correspond only diagrammatically to people, but they do sustain the presence of the representational figure, part...

Paul Gauguin

Where do we come from what are we where are we going

Pablo Picasso

Women of Algiers (Version O)

Women of Algiers (Version O) is the last instalment in a series of 15 paintings and sketches by Pablo Picasso. It was inspired by Eugène Delacroix's painting The Women of Algiers in their Apartment and was executed as a tribute to his favourite artists. Delacroix's painting was done after he visited North Africa where the Sultan invited him to see inside his palace, there in the harem sits four women around a hookah. Picasso's cubist rendition had contorted their bodies where their front could b...

Francisco De Goya

Saturn Devouring His Son

Saturn Devouring His Son is the name given to a painting by Spanish artist Francisco Goya. It depicts the Greek myth of the Titan Cronus (in the title Romanised to Saturn), who, fearing that his children would overthrow him, ate each one upon their birth. It is one of the series of Black Paintings that Goya painted directly onto the walls of his house sometime between 1819 and 1823. The work was transferred to canvas after Goya's death and now resides in the Museo del Prado in Madrid.

Vincent Van Gogh

The Sower

Vincent Van Gogh returned to this subject often throughout his career, this resonated with his socialist ideals and saw that this represented the eternal cycle of agricultural life, of honourable endeavour and tradition. The young sower throws his hand in a broad gesture. The sun is bright in the sky, it is bright yellow and forms a halo on his head. The yellow-green colours of the sky contrast heavily with the violet land; the young boy is also blanketed in a shadow, with blue lines indicating ...

William Turner

The Fighting Temeraire Tugged to Her Last Berth to Be Broken up

The Fighting Temeraire tugged to her last Berth to be broken up, 1838 is an oil painting executed in 1839 by the English artist J. M. W. Turner (c.1775–1851). It depicts one of the last second-rate ships of the line which played a distinguished role in the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805, the 98-gun ship HMS Temeraire, being towed towards its final berth in east London in 1838 to be broken up for scrap. The painting hangs in the National Gallery, London, having been bequeathed to the nation by the a...

Joan Miró

Joan Miró- Catalan Landscape (The Hunter)

Catalan Landscape is an oil painting that represents cultural movement during early 20th century. It was created by Joan Miro and it display dreams and hallucinations concept that the world was surpassing during its creation time. It primarily emphasize on Catalonia people and culture prevailing during the early decade. Interpretation of painting was clearly focused on killing of human being which is clearly displayed through black lines that connects the different objects that represents the Ca...

Winslow Homer

Nebelwarnung (The Fog Warning)

Willem De Kooning

Woman I

Paul Cezanne

The Card Players

The Card Players is a series of oil paintings by the French Post-Impressionist artist Paul Cézanne. Painted during Cézanne's final period in the early 1890s, there are five paintings in the series. The versions vary in size and in the number of players depicted. Cézanne also completed numerous drawings and studies in preparation for The Card Players series. One version of The Card Players was sold in 2011 to the Royal Family of Qatar for a price variously estimated at between $250 million and $3...

Pablo Picasso

Portrait of Ambroise Vollard

Portrait of Ambroise Vollard is a colored painting created by Pablo Picasso in 1910. Ambroise Vollard is a French dealer, who is credited to provide exposure and emotional support to unknown artists including Pablo Picasso. The works reflect Analytical Cubism artwork completed by use of oil technique on canvas.

It is a masterpiece gift by Pablo Picasso to his godfather Ambroise Vollard for upraising him during his initial stages. The dimension of painting is 92 cm by 65 cm and is housed at ...

Albrecht Durer

Portrait of a Young Venetian Woman

Portrait of a Young Venetian Woman is a small bust length oil on elm panel painting by the German artist Albrecht Dürerfrom 1505. It was executed, along with a number of other high society portraits, during his second visit to Italy.

The woman wears a patterned gown with tied-on sleeves that show the chemise beneath. Her hair frames her face in soft waves, and back hair is confined in a small draped cap. The work's harmony and grace is achieved through its mixtures of tones, from her pale, ...

Henri Matisse

The Joy of Life

Henri Matisse’s painting The Joy of Life is regarded to be one of the pillars of early Modernism. The painting draws inspiration from many sources, it becomes a group of individual motifs placed in a single composition. The most obvious inspiration is Paul Cézanne’s painting The Large Bather. Similar to Cezanne, he uses the canvas as a stage, the line of trees extend towards the back while the boughs serve as curtains. The sensual figures are seen as inspired by Ingres’s and harem scenes. Matiss...

Emile Nolde

The Mocking of Christ

Mocking of Christ is Emil Nolde painting created in 1909 to display punishments and tortures suffered by Jesus Christ. It is a colorful painting made on expressionism style to display suffering of Christ. The painting's dimensions are 88 cm by 106 cm and is housed at Brücke-Museum, Berlin.

The painting displays six people around Jesus Christ, mocking on him. The suffering and pain of Christ is displayed by expressions of people around him in the painting. The hand movement of people mocking...

Kazimir Severinovich Malevich

Black Square

One of the most famous paintings in Russian art, Black Square marked the turning point of the Russian avant-garde movement. Before creating this painting, Malevich spent eighteen months in his studio, laboring over thirty non-objective paintings. In the end, he had created a series of non-objective paintings, of which Black Square is one. His invention of the word “suprematism” was meant to refer to the supremacy of the new geometric forms. Although the other works in this period were created wi...

Suzanne Valadon

The Blue Room

The Blue Room is a self-portrait of Valadon. She is displayed inclined on a bed surrounded by blue sheets with floral patterns, with two closed books to the side. Valadon herself appears slightly overweight, lounging in what appear to be pajamas with a cigarette in her mouth. Her eyes face away from the viewer, as if lost in thought. Overall, Valadon appears quite at ease, with no sense of imminent danger. Painted in 1923, this was one of Valadon's later paintings in her life.

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Edward Hopper

Nighthawks, The Art Institute of Chicago, Chica

Nighthawks, according to Hopper himself, was loosely based on a restaurant in the Greenwich Avenue of New York. There’s a sense of universality that this image captures. Even though it lacks a concrete narrative, it’s intricately designed composition will never get old for its viewers. The painting reeks of a local flavor but exudes global sentiment. Often held amongst twentieth-century’s most iconic images, this work displays an all-night diner where dreaming customers, three of them, have gath...

Vincent Van Gogh

Self Portrait

Hans Holbein The Younger

Jean de Dinteville and Georges de Selve (`The Ambassadors')

The Ambassadors (1533) is a painting by Hans Holbein the Younger in the National Gallery, London. As well as being a double portrait, the painting contains a still life of several meticulously rendered objects, the meaning of which is the cause of much debate. It is also a much-cited example of anamorphosis in painting. Although a German-born artist who spent much time in England, Holbein displayed the influence of Early Netherlandish painters in this work. This influence can be noted most outwa...

Gustave Caillebotte

Man at the Window

Gustave Caillebotte was a French Impressionist artist, his style was more realistic than other artists. He strived to paint reality without the theatrics. His interest in photography grew and his focus on urban landscape intensified after his mother’s death. We see the influence of German romanticism in his painting Man at Window but has replaced the view of luscious nature with a cityscape. He paints his brother René Caillebotte, wearing informal clothes and standing on a balcony. The social st...

Vincent Van Gogh

The Cafe Terrace on the Place du Forum (Cafe Terrace at night)

Café Terrace at Night is an 1888 oil painting by the Dutch artist Vincent van Gogh. It is also known as The Cafe Terrace on the Place du Forum, and, when first exhibited in 1891, was entitled Coffeehouse, in the evening (Café, le soir).
Van Gogh painted Café Terrace at Night in Arles, France, in mid-September 1888. The painting is not signed, but described and mentioned by the artist in three letters.
Visitors to the site can stand at the northeastern corner of the Place du Forum, where the arti...

Pablo Picasso

A boy with pipe

Mary Stevenson Cassatt

The Child's Bath 2

Mary Stevenson Cassatt

The Child's Bath

Rene Magritte

The seductive

The Seducer is a 1953 painting of Rene Magritte. It was created in Brussels, Belgium on surrealism style to depict Mature Period. The dimension of painting is 38 cm by 46 cm and is based on storyline of marina. The night effect has been prominently featured in this painting by use of dark blue and light blue color. The ocean and wave have created a strong impact in this artwork.

The painting portraits a marina in its story line when mature period has started expanding its presence after the...

Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres

The Grande Odalisque

Salvador Dali

Premonition of Civil War

Soft Construction with Boiled Beans (Premonition of Civil War) (1936) is a painting by Spanish Surrealist Salvador Dalí. Dali made this painting to represent the horrors of the Spanish Civil War. Dali painted this work six months before the Spanish Civil War had even begun and then claimed that he had known the war was going to happen in order to appear to have prophet-like abilities due to "the prophetic power of his subconscious mind." Dali may have changed the name of the painting after the w...

Frida Kahlo

Self portrait with Thorn Necklace and Hummingbird

Rene Magritte

The meaning of night

The Meaning of Night is a painting by Rene Magritte to represent the fear of night in human being. Rene Magritte painted this artwork in 1927 by use of Surrealism Style. It is painted by use Technique oil on canvas with Dimensions 139 cm by 105 cm and is housed at Menil Collection, Houston.

The Meaning of Night represents a story of individual who is followed by his own shadow where he see the soul of other. The story line revolves to display the fear of darkness of night in humans. It repr...

Albrecht Durer

Self-Portrait at 28

Pablo Picasso

Portrait of Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler

"Portrait of Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler" (Spanish: Retrato de Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler) is a 1910 oil on canvas painting by Pablo Picasso in the Analytical Cubism style. It was completed in 1910, and is in the collection of the Art Institute of Chicago. The artwork displays brown as its prominent color, with dimensions 100.5 cm × 73 cm.

The painting depicts Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler, who owned an art gallery in France. The artwork depicts the calm character and diversity of Kahnweiler by using se...

Vincent Van Gogh

Haystacks in Provence

Haystacks in Provence is a painting of 1888 by the Dutch Impressionist Vincent van Gogh (1853 – 1890). The oil on canvas painting is drawn on Post-Impressionism style with landscape Genre and it measures 73 by 92.5 centimeters. It is now housed at Rijksmuseum Kröller-Müller, Otterlo. It portrays Vincent's identification with peasant life effectively reached at its high point in his pictures of harvest time in Provence. The powerful radiance of the yellow in these works which Vincent elevated to ...

Leonardo Da Vinci

Vitruvian Man

Wassily Kandinsky

Composition VII

Composition VII is a painting of 1913 by the Russian Impressionist Wassily Kandinsky (1866– 1944). The oil on canvas painting is drawn on Abstract Art style with abstract painting and it measures 200 by 300 centimeters. It was created in Munich, Germany and now housed at The State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow. Kandinsky completed the actual painting in less than four days. The oval seems almost the eye of a compositional hurricane, surrounded by swirling masses of color and form. Composition VII co...

Katsushika Hokusai

The Great Wave off Kanagawa

Jean-Joseph Constant (Benjamin-Constant)

The Throne Room In Byzantium

Edvard Munch

Madonna

Madonna was another painting of which Munch made many reproductions. Although it is a very unique representation, this painting depicts Mary, Mother of Jesus. Unlike the typical depiction of Mary as a fully clothed, chaste woman, this piece portrays her as a fully developed, sexually mature woman. This painting was stolen along with The Scream in 2004. Although the thieves were immediately caught, it was thought that they destroyed the two paintings, which were evidence of their crime. The Norwe...

August Macke

Woman in a Green Jacket

Reproduction of the German expressionist painter August Macke's Lady in the Green Jacket. The painting is probably regarded as one of Macke's best. In this case it has been executed in oils on canvass board with an inlaid mount under glass and a complimentary wooden frame.
This was originally completed by the artist during a stay at Lake Thun in 1913 and it shows an especially harmonious arrangement of form and a fine equilibration of colour. It measured 44cm x 43.5 cm and today it can be found ...