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Painting
Painting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a surface (support base). In art, the term describes both the act and the result, which is called a painting. Paintings may have for their support such surfaces as walls, paper, canvas, wood, glass, lacquer, clay or...
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Claude Monet
Claude Monet (French pronunciation: [klod mɔnɛ]) also known as Oscar Claude Monet or Claude Oscar Monet (14 November 1840 – 5 December 1926) was a founder of French impressionist painting, and the most consistent and prolific practitioner of the...
Date of birth:
- Nov 14, 1840
Date of death:
- Dec 5, 1926 (age 86 years)
Hieronymus Bosch
Hieronymus Bosch (English pronunciation: /ˌhaɪəˈrɒnəməs bɒʃ/, Dutch: [ɦieːˈɾoːniməs ˈbɔs]; born Jeroen Anthoniszoon van Aken [jəˈrun ɑnˈtoːnɪsoːn vɑn ˈaːkə(n)]; c. 1450 – August 9, 1516) was an Early Netherlandish painter of the fifteenth and...
Date of birth:
- 1450
Date of death:
- Aug 9, 1516 (age 66 years)
John Atkinson Grimshaw
John Atkinson Grimshaw (6 September 1836 – 13 October 1893) was a Victorian-era artist, a "remarkable and imaginative painter" known for his city scenes and landscapes.
His early paintings were signed "JAG," "J. A. Grimshaw," or "John Atkinson...
Date of birth:
- Sep 6, 1836
Date of death:
- Oct 13, 1893 (age 57 years)
Andy Warhol
Andrew Warhola (August 6, 1928 – February 22, 1987), more commonly known as Andy Warhol, was an American painter, printmaker, and filmmaker who was a leading figure in the visual art movement known as pop art. After a successful career as a...
Date of birth:
- Aug 6, 1928
Date of death:
- Feb 22, 1987 (age 58 years)
Alessandro Allori
Alessandro di Cristofano di Lorenzo del Bronzino Allori (3 May 1535 - 22 September 1607) was an Italian portrait painter of the late Mannerist Florentine school.
Born in Florence, in 1540, after the death of his father, he was brought up and trained...
Date of birth:
- May 3, 1535
Date of death:
- Sep 22, 1607 (age 72 years)
Aristide Maillol
Aristide Maillol or Aristides Maillol (December 8, 1861 – September 27, 1944) was a French Catalan sculptor and painter.
Maillol was born in Banyuls-sur-Mer, Roussillon. He decided at an early age to become a painter, and moved to Paris in 1881 to...
Date of birth:
- Apr 8, 1861
Date of death:
- Sep 27, 1944 (age 83 years)
Albrecht Dürer
Albrecht Dürer (German pronunciation: [ˈalbʀɛçt ˈdyʀɐ]) (21 May 1471 – 6 April 1528) was a German painter, printmaker and theorist from Nuremberg. His prints established his reputation across Europe when he was still in his twenties, and he has been...
Date of birth:
- May 21, 1471
Date of death:
- Apr 6, 1528 (age 56 years)
Alberto Giacometti
Alberto Giacometti (October 10, 1901 – January 11, 1966) was a Swiss sculptor, painter, draftsman, and printmaker. Alberto Giacometti was born in October 1901 in Italian-speaking Switzerland and came from an artistic background - his father,...
Date of birth:
- Oct 10, 1901
Date of death:
- Jan 11, 1966 (age 64 years)
Albrecht Altdorfer
Albrecht Altdorfer (c. 1480 near Regensburg – 12 February 1538 in Regensburg) was a German painter, printmaker and architect of the Renaissance era, the leader of the Danube School in southern Germany, and a near-contemporary of Albrecht Dürer. He...
Date of birth:
- 1480
Date of death:
- Feb 12, 1538 (age 58 years)
Ambrosius Bosschaert
Ambrosius Bosschaert the Elder (Antwerp, January 18, 1573–The Hague, 1621) was a still life painter of the Dutch Golden Age.
He started his career in Antwerp, but spent most of it in Middelburg (1593–1613), where he became dean of the painters'...
Date of birth:
- Jan 18, 1573
Date of death:
- 1621 (age 47 years)
Agostino Carracci
Agostino Carracci (or Caracci) (August 16, 1557 – March 22, 1602) was an Italian painter and printmaker. He was the brother of the more famous Annibale and cousin of Lodovico Carracci.
He posited the ideal in nature, and was the founder of the...
Date of birth:
- Aug 16, 1557
Date of death:
- Mar 22, 1602 (age 44 years)
Aelbert Cuyp
Aelbert Jacobsz Cuyp (October 20, 1620 – November 15, 1691) was one of the leading Dutch landscape painters of the Dutch Golden Age in the 17th century. The most famous of a family of painters, the pupil of his father Jacob Gerritsz. Cuyp (1594–1651...
Date of birth:
- Oct 20, 1620
Date of death:
- Nov 15, 1691 (age 71 years)
Brion Gysin
Brion Gysin (January 19, 1916 – July 13, 1986) was a painter, writer, sound poet, and performance artist born in Taplow, Buckinghamshire.
He is best known for his discovery of the cut-up technique used by William S. Burroughs. With Ian Somerville...
Date of birth:
- Jan 19, 1916
Date of death:
- Jul 13, 1986 (age 70 years)
Berthe Morisot
Berthe Morisot (January 14, 1841 – March 2, 1895) was a painter and a member of the circle of painters in Paris who became known as the Impressionists. Undervalued for over a century, possibly because she was a woman, she is now considered among the...
Date of birth:
- Jan 14, 1841
Date of death:
- Mar 2, 1895 (age 54 years)
Caspar David Friedrich
Caspar David Friedrich (September 5, 1774 – May 7, 1840) was a 19th-century German Romantic landscape painter, generally considered the most important of the movement. He is best known for his mid-period allegorical landscapes which typically...
Date of birth:
- Sep 5, 1774
Date of death:
- May 7, 1840 (age 65 years)
Cecilia Beaux
Cecilia Beaux (May 1, 1855 – September 7, 1942) was an American society portraitist, in the nature of John Singer Sargent. She was a near contemporary of better-known American artist Mary Cassatt and also received her training in Philadelphia and...
Date of birth:
- May 1, 1855
Date of death:
- Sep 7, 1942 (age 87 years)
Charles Alston
Charles Henry Alston (November 28, 1907 – April 27, 1977), born in Charlotte, North Carolina, was an American artist, muralist, and teacher. Alston graduated from DeWitt Clinton High School in New York City, then attended Columbia College and...
Date of birth:
- Nov 28, 1907
Date of death:
- Apr 27, 1977 (age 69 years)
Cimabue
Cenni di Pepo (Giovanni) Cimabue (c. 1240 — c. 1302) also known as Bencivieni di Pepo or in modern Italian, Benvenuto di Giuseppe, was an Italian painter and creator of mosaics from Florence. He is also well known for his student Giotto, considered...
Date of birth:
- 1240
Date of death:
- 1302 (age 62 years)
Caravaggio
Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, (29 September 1571–18 July 1610) was an Italian artist active in Rome, Naples, Malta and Sicily between 1593 and 1610. His intensely emotional realism and dramatic use of lighting had a formative influence on the...
Date of birth:
- Sep 29, 1571
Date of death:
- Jul 18, 1610 (age 38 years)
Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin
Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin (2 November 1699 - 6 December 1779) was an 18th-century French painter. He is considered a master of still life.
Chardin was born in Paris, the son of a cabinetmaker, and rarely left the city. He lived on the Left Bank...
Date of birth:
- Nov 2, 1699
Date of death:
- Dec 6, 1779 (age 80 years)
Camille Pissarro
Camille Pissarro (10 July 1830 – 13 November 1903) was a French Impressionist painter. His importance resides not only in his visual contributions to Impressionism and Post-Impressionism, but also in his patriarchal standing among his colleagues,...
Date of birth:
- Jul 10, 1830
Date of death:
- Nov 13, 1903 (age 73 years)
David Lynch
David Keith Lynch (born January 20, 1946) is an American filmmaker and visual artist. Lynch has received three Academy Award nominations for Best Director, for The Elephant Man (1980), Blue Velvet (1986), and Mulholland Drive (2001). He also...
Date of birth:
- Jan 20, 1946 (age 63 years)
Jacques-Louis David
Jacques-Louis David (30 August 1748 – 29 December 1825) was a highly influential French painter in the Neoclassical style, considered to be the preeminent painter of the era. In the 1780s his cerebral brand of history painting marked a change in...
Date of birth:
- Aug 30, 1748
Date of death:
- Dec 29, 1825 (age 77 years)
Édouard Manet
Édouard Manet (French pronunciation: [edwaʁ manɛ]), 23 January 1832 – 30 April 1883, was a French painter. One of the first nineteenth century artists to approach modern-life subjects, he was a pivotal figure in the transition from Realism to...
Date of birth:
- Jan 23, 1832
Date of death:
- Apr 30, 1883 (age 51 years)
Emanuel Leutze
Emanuel Gottlieb Leutze (May 24, 1816 – July 18, 1868) was a German American history painter best-known for his painting Washington Crossing the Delaware.
Leutze was born to a Jewish family in Schwäbisch Gmünd, Württemberg (Germany), was brought to...
Date of birth:
- May 24, 1816
Date of death:
- Jul 18, 1868 (age 52 years)
Edwin Austin Abbey
Edwin Austin Abbey (April 1, 1852 – August 1, 1911) was an American artist, illustrator, and painter. He flourished at the beginning of what is now referred to as the "golden age" of illustration, and is best known for his drawings and paintings of...
Date of birth:
- Apr 1, 1852
Date of death:
- Aug 1, 1911 (age 59 years)
Edvard Munch
Edvard Munch (Norwegian pronunciation: [ˈmʉŋk], 12 December 1863 – 23 January 1944) was a Norwegian Symbolist painter, printmaker and an important forerunner of expressionistic art. His best-known composition, The Scream, is part of a series The...
Date of birth:
- Dec 12, 1863
Date of death:
- Jan 23, 1944 (age 80 years)
Élisabeth-Louise Vigée Le Brun
Élisabeth-Louise Vigée-Le Brun (16 April 1755 - 30 March 1842) was a French painter, and is recognized as the most famous woman painter of the eighteenth century. Her style is generally considered Rococo and shows interest in the subject of...
Date of birth:
- Apr 16, 1755
Date of death:
- Mar 30, 1842 (age 87 years)
Edward Mitchell Bannister
Edward Mitchell Bannister (ca. 1828 – January 9, 1901) was an African American painter whose tonalism and predominantly pastoral subject matter owed much to his admiration for Millet and the French Barbizon School.
Bannister was born in St Andrews,...
Date of birth:
- 1828
Date of death:
- Jan 9, 1901 (age 73 years)
Francisco Goya
Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes (30 March 1746 – 16 April 1828) was a Spanish painter and printmaker regarded both as the last of the Old Masters and as the first of the moderns. Goya was a court painter to the Spanish Crown and a chronicler of...
Date of birth:
- Mar 30, 1746
Date of death:
- Apr 16, 1828 (age 82 years)
Fra Angelico
Fra Angelico (c. 1395 – February 18, 1455), born Guido di Pietro, was an Early Italian Renaissance painter, referred to in Vasari's Lives of the Artists as having "a rare and perfect talent".
Known in Italy as il Beato Angelico, he was known to his...
Date of birth:
- 1395
Date of death:
- Feb 18, 1455 (age 60 years)
Fra Bartolommeo
Fra Bartolomeo or Fra Bartolommeo (di Pagholo) (March 28, 1472 – October 6, 1517), also known as Baccio della Porta, was an Italian Renaissance painter of religious subjects.
He was born in Savignano di Prato, Tuscany. He received the nickname of...
Date of birth:
- Mar 28, 1472
Date of death:
- Oct 6, 1517 (age 45 years)
Frédéric Bazille
Jean Frédéric Bazille (December 6, 1841 – November 28, 1870) was a French Impressionist painter whose major works often foreground the figure within a landscape painted en plein air.
Frédéric Bazille was born in Montpellier, Hérault, Languedoc...
Date of birth:
- Dec 6, 1841
Date of death:
- Nov 28, 1870 (age 28 years)
Ford Madox Brown
Ford Madox Brown (16 April 1821 – 6 October 1893) was an English painter of moral and historical subjects, notable for his distinctively graphic and often Hogarthian version of the Pre-Raphaelite style.
Brown was born in Calais and studied art in...
Date of birth:
- Apr 16, 1821
Date of death:
- Oct 6, 1893 (age 72 years)
Georges Braque
Georges Braque (13 May 1882 – 31 August 1963) was a major 20th century French painter and sculptor who, along with Pablo Picasso, developed the art movement known as Cubism.
Georges Braque was born in Argenteuil, Val-d'Oise. He grew up in Le Havre...
Date of birth:
- May 13, 1882
Date of death:
- Aug 31, 1963 (age 81 years)
Gustav Klimt
Gustav Klimt (July 14, 1862 – February 6, 1918) was an Austrian Symbolist painter and one of the most prominent members of the Vienna Secession movement. His major works include paintings, murals, sketches, and other art objects, many of which are...
Date of birth:
- Jul 14, 1862
Date of death:
- Feb 6, 1918 (age 55 years)
Gian Lorenzo Bernini
Gian Lorenzo Bernini (also spelled Gianlorenzo or Giovanni Lorenzo; 7 December 1598 — 28 November 1680) was an Italian artist who worked principally in Rome. He was the leading sculptor of his age and also a prominent architect. In addition he...
Date of birth:
- Dec 7, 1598
Date of death:
- 1680 (age 81 years)
Gerard David
Gerard David (c. 1460 – August 13, 1523) was an Early Netherlandish painter and manuscript illuminator known for his brilliant use of color.
He was born in Oudewater, now located in Utrecht. He spent his mature career in Bruges, where he was a...
Date of birth:
- 1460
Date of death:
- Aug 13, 1523 (age 63 years)
Hermann Hesse
Hermann Hesse (German pronunciation: [ˈhɛʀman ˈhɛsə]) (2 July 1877 – 9 August 1962) was a German Swiss poet, novelist, and painter. In 1946 he received the Nobel Prize in Literature. His best-known works include Steppenwolf, Siddhartha, and The...
Date of birth:
- Jul 2, 1877
Date of death:
- Aug 9, 1962 (age 85 years)
H. R. Giger
Hans Rudolf 'Ruedi' Giger (pronounced /ˈɡiːɡər/, born in Chur, Grisons Canton, Switzerland, February 5, 1940) is a Swiss surrealist painter, sculptor, and set designer, who won an Academy Award for Best Achievement for Visual Effects for his design...
Date of birth:
- Feb 5, 1940 (age 69 years)
Hendrick Avercamp
Hendrick Avercamp (bapt. January 27, 1585, Amsterdam - buried May 15, 1634, Kampen (Overijssel)) was a Dutch painter.
Avercamp studied in Amsterdam with the Danish-born portrait painter Pieter Isaacks (1569-1625), and perhaps also with David...
Date of birth:
- Jan 27, 1585
Date of death:
- 1634 (age 48 years)
Hans Baldung
Hans Baldung, known as Hans Baldung Grien/Grün (c. 1480 - 1545) was a German Renaissance artist in painting and printmaking in woodcut. He was considered the most gifted student of Albrecht Dürer.
The son of a lawyer, he was born Hans Baldung at...
Date of birth:
- 1480
Date of death:
- 1545 (age 65 years)
Joshua Reynolds
Sir Joshua Reynolds RA FRS FRSA (16 July 1723 – 23 February 1792) was an important and influential 18th century English painter, specialising in portraits and promoting the "Grand Style" in painting which depended on idealisation of the imperfect....
Date of birth:
- Jul 16, 1723
Date of death:
- Feb 23, 1792 (age 68 years)
Jean-Michel Basquiat
Jean-Michel Basquiat (December 22, 1960 – August 12, 1988) was an American artist and the first African-American painter to become an international art star. He gained popularity first as a graffiti artist in New York City, and then as a successful...
Date of birth:
- Dec 22, 1960
Date of death:
- Aug 12, 1988 (age 27 years)
Joseph Severn
Joseph Severn (7 December 1793 – 3 August 1879) was an English portrait and subject painter and a personal friend of the famous English poet John Keats. He exhibited portraits, Italian genre, literary and biblical subjects and a selection of his...
Date of birth:
- Dec 7, 1793
Date of death:
- Aug 3, 1879 (age 85 years)
Juan Gris
José Victoriano González-Pérez (March 23, 1887 – May 11, 1927), better known as Juan Gris, was a Spanish painter and sculptor who lived and worked in France most of his life. His works are closely connected to the emergence of an innovative artistic...
Date of birth:
- Mar 23, 1887
Date of death:
- May 11, 1927 (age 40 years)
Jacob Lawrence
Jacob Lawrence (September 7, 1917 – June 9, 2000) was an African American painter; he was married to fellow artist Gwendolyn Knight. Lawrence referred to his style as "dynamic cubism", though by his own account the primary influence was not so much...
Date of birth:
- Sep 7, 1917
Date of death:
- Jun 9, 2000 (age 82 years)
Jackson Pollock
Paul Jackson Pollock (January 28, 1912 – August 11, 1956) was an influential American painter and a major figure in the abstract expressionist movement. During his lifetime, Pollock enjoyed considerable fame and notoriety. He was regarded as a...
Date of birth:
- Jan 28, 1912
Date of death:
- Aug 11, 1956 (age 44 years)
Jacopo Amigoni
Jacopo Amigoni (also named Giacomo Amiconi, 1682 – 1752) was an Italian painter of the late-Baroque or Rococo period, who began his career in Venice, but traveled and was prolific throughout Europe, where his sumptuous portraits were much in demand....
Date of birth:
- 1682
Date of death:
- 1752 (age 70 years)
Jean-François Millet
Jean-François Millet (October 4, 1814 – January 20, 1875) was a French painter and one of the founders of the Barbizon school in rural France. Millet is noted for his scenes of peasant farmers; he can be categorized as part of the naturalism and...
Date of birth:
- Oct 4, 1814
Date of death:
- Jan 20, 1875 (age 60 years)
John James Audubon
John James Audubon (April 26, 1785 – January 27, 1851) was a French-American ornithologist, naturalist, hunter, and painter. He painted, catalogued, and described the birds of North America in a form far superior to what had gone before. In his...
Date of birth:
- Apr 26, 1785
Date of death:
- Jan 27, 1851 (age 65 years)
Jacques Maroger
Jacques Maroger [pron. ma - ro - ZHAY](1884–1962) was a painter and the technical director of the Louvre Museum's laboratory in Paris, France. He devoted his life to understanding the oil-based media of the Old Masters.
In 1907, Maroger began to...
Date of birth:
- 1884
Date of death:
- 1962 (age 78 years)
Jan van Goyen
Jan Josephszoon van Goyen (13 January 1596, Leiden – 27 April 1656, The Hague) was a Dutch landscape painter. Van Goyen was an extremely prolific artist; approximately twelve hundred paintings and more than one thousand drawings by him are known....
Date of birth:
- Jan 13, 1596
Date of death:
- 1656 (age 60 years)
Kurt Schwitters
Kurt Hermann Eduard Karl Julius Schwitters (20 June 1887 - 8 January 1948) was a German painter who was born in Hanover, Germany.
Schwitters worked in several genres and media, including Dada, Constructivism, Surrealism, poetry, sound, painting,...
Date of birth:
- Jun 20, 1887
Date of death:
- Jan 8, 1948 (age 60 years)
Kenneth Noland
Kenneth Noland (born April 10, 1924) is an American abstract painter. He is identified today as one of the best-known contemporary American Color field painters, although in the 1950s he was thought of as an abstract expressionist and in the early...
Date of birth:
- Apr 10, 1924 (age 85 years)
Kazimir Malevich
Kazimir Severinovich Malevich (Russian: Казимир Северинович Малевич, Polish: Kazimierz Malewicz, Ukrainian: Казимир Северинович Малевич [kazɪˈmɪr sɛʋɛˈrɪnoʋɪtʃ mɑˈlɛʋɪtʃ], German: Kasimir Malewitsch, Belarusian: Казіме́р Мале́віч), (February 23,...
Date of birth:
- Feb 23, 1878
Date of death:
- May 15, 1935 (age 57 years)
Leone Battista Alberti
Leon Battista Alberti (February 18, 1404 – April 20, 1472) was an Italian author, artist, architect, poet, priest, linguist, philosopher, and cryptographer, and general Renaissance humanist polymath. Alberti's life was described in Giorgio Vasari's...
Date of birth:
- Feb 18, 1404
Date of death:
- Apr 20, 1472 (age 68 years)
Leonardo da Vinci
Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci, April 15, 1452 – May 2, 1519) was an Italian polymath, being a scientist, mathematician, engineer, inventor, anatomist, painter, sculptor, architect, botanist, musician and writer. Leonardo...
Date of birth:
- Apr 15, 1452
Date of death:
- May 2, 1519 (age 67 years)
Lamorna Birch
Samuel John "Lamorna" Birch, RA, RWS (June 7, 1869 – January 7, 1955) was an artist in oils and watercolours. At the suggestion of fellow artist Stanhope Forbes, Birch adopted the soubriquet "Lamorna" to distinguish himself from Lionel Birch, an...
Date of birth:
- Jun 7, 1869
Date of death:
- Jan 7, 1955 (age 85 years)
Lyonel Feininger
Lyonel Charles Feininger (July 17, 1871 – January 13, 1956) was a German-American painter and caricaturist.
Lyonel Feininger was born to parents of German American descent and grew up in New York City. He moved to Berlin in 1887 to study at the...
Date of birth:
- Jul 17, 1871
Date of death:
- Jan 13, 1956 (age 84 years)
