Art And Literature

Henri Matisse was born on 31 December 1869, in Le Cateau-Cambrésis, Nord, France. He was an artist, known for his use of colour and his fluid, brilliant and original draughtsmanship. He was a master draughtsman, printmaker, and sculptor, but excelled primarily as a painter.
Matisse is considered, with Picasso, as the greatest artist of the 20th [...]

Claude Monet was born on 14 November 1840 in Paris. Claude Monet is also known as Oscar Claude Monet or Claude Oscar Monet. In 1845, his family moved to Le Havre in Normandy. His father wanted him to go into the family grocery business, but Monet wanted to become an artist. His mother was a [...]

Quote: “I never painted dreams. I painted my own reality.” (Kahlo)

Frida Kahlo was born on July 6, 1907 in Coyoacán near Maxico city. Kahlo being a Mexican painter, painted using vibrant colors in a style that was influenced by indigenous cultures of Mexico and European influences including Realism, Symbolism, and Surrealism. Most of her [...]

Francisco Goya was born on 30 March 1746 in Fuendetodos, Aragón, Spain. His full name was Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes. He was a painter and printmaker.
At age 14, he entered apprenticeship with the painter José Luzán, after completing his early education at the school named Escuelas Pias. He later moved to Madrid where [...]

Quote: “My painting is visible images which conceal nothing; they evoke mystery and, indeed, when one sees one of my pictures, one asks oneself this simple question, ‘What does that mean?’. It does not mean anything, because mystery means nothing either, it is unknowable.” (René Magritte)
René François Ghislain Magritte was born in Lessines, in the [...]

Quote: “Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.” – Salvador Dali
Salvador Domingo Felipe Jacinto Dalí i Domènech, 1st Marquis of Púbol (May 11, 1904 – January 23, 1989) was a Spanish Catalan surrealist painter born in Figueres.
Dalí (Spanish pronunciation: [daˈli]) was a skilled draftsman, best known for the striking and bizarre images [...]

Picasso (25 October 1881 – 8 April 1973) was a Spanish painter, draughtsman, and sculptor. His full name is Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno María de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santísima Trinidad Ruiz y Picasso. One of the most recognized figures in 20th-century art, Picasso is best known for co-founding the [...]

Vincent van Gogh, for whom color was the chief symbol of expression, was born in Groot-Zundert, Holland. The son of a pastor, brought up in a religious and cultured atmosphere, Vincent was highly emotional and lacked self-confidence. Between 1860 and 1880, when he finally decided to become an artist, van Gogh had had two unsuitable [...]

Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni (March 6, 1475 – February 18, 1564), commonly known as Michelangelo, was an Italian Renaissance painter, sculptor, architect, poet, and engineer. Despite making few forays beyond the arts, his versatility in the disciplines he took up was of such a high order that he is often considered a contender for [...]

Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci (April 15, 1452 – May 2, 1519) was born in Vinci, Italy. He was an illegitimate son of a young notary named Piero da Vinci, and a peasant woman, Caterina, at Vinci in the region of Florence. He was an Italian polymath, scientist, mathematician, engineer, inventor, anatomist, painter, sculptor, [...]