Famous Painters: 3 Most Famous Painters of All Time

Our world has been blessed with great and talent of so many gifted artists that have given us amazing master pieces that have motivated and inspired, not only just an era, but long after their brushes have laid their final strokes.
As it is true that beauty is in the eye of the beholder, it would be impossible to pick just a few and present them as the best without attracting fierce debate, of which it is not wise.

Here I have written a short reference to present 3 most famous artists of all time.


1. Leonardo Da Vinci (1452-1519)- Renaissance

It is without debate that the number 1 spot belongs to the great Leonardo Da Vinci. Often call him as the father of Renaissance, or a master of perspective, the influence of Leonardo Da Vinci today extends far beyond the realm of artistic endeavor.

Encouraged and inspired by growing up in an educated environment there are about 15 significant art works credited to Leonardo Da Vinci, comprising paintings on panels, a large mural and various drawings. Leonardo Da Vinci is well known for his work in such fields as natural science mathematics, engineering, geometry.

Leonardo became the first painter, architect, and engineer work for King Francis 1st in France. It was the King himself at his side on the 2nd of May, 1519 when he died.

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2. Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890)- Impressionist

The works of Vincent Van Gogh are perhaps the easiest recognized and remembered of any artist, famous or not.
Although he often made his art works with everyday objects, like sunflowers and an empty chair, his art is intensely emotional.

Vincent Van Gogh was born the son of a pastor and spent his childhood in a cultured and religious atmosphere. He first worked in a book store and as an art salesman before becoming a preacher for which he was latter dismissed for being overzealous. In 1880, he turned to the study of art with the determination to give joy by creating beauty.

Van Gogh suffered severe bouts of depression and has been known as a "difficult companion", an understated comment when thinking that during one of his "difficult" episodes he tried to attack his closest friend and peer, Gauguin, with a razor. The attack was successfully defended but Van Gogh then famously cut off a part of his own ear.
Van Gogh’s depression and tantrums intensified and he began to suffer fits of madness and was admitted to an asylum.
In 1890, two months after his release from the asylum Vincent Van Gogh died by suicide, only ever having sold one painting. After 200 years after his death, with a tragic life, the paintings of Vincent Van Gogh are immortal.
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3. Salvador Dali- (1904-1989)- Surrealism

The art works of Salvador Dali express unrealistic hallucinatory characters of burning giraffes and apparently melted wax watches. Dali proclaimed his own works as 'hand-painted dream photographs'.
Dali is well known for his many talents apart from sculpture, painting, jewelry design as well as theatre work, making a surrealistic film, "Un chien andalou" in 1929 and even writing a novel, “Hidden Faces” in 1944.

While Dali is famous for representing the surrealist era, he skillfully extended his own version which he named 'critical paranoia'. Dali’s theory supporting critical paranoia is that one should develop illusion although awareness and will suspended in thought.

About his character, one would still be confused as to who Salvador Dali was. He cannot possibly be described in few short sentences. Just when you think you know him in nature there emerges one more perspective.

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