10 Famous

Painters
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Lester Jude O. Callado
Pablo Diego Jos Francisco de Paula
Juan Nepomuceno Mara de los
Remedios Cipriano de la Santsima
Trinidad Ruiz y Picasso or Pablo Picasso

- Born last 25 October 1881

- A Spanish painter, draughtsman,
and sculptor who lived most of his
life in France
- widely known for co-founding
the Cubist movement and for the wide
variety of styles that he helped develop
and explore
- most famous works are the proto-
Cubist Les Demoiselles
d'Avignon (1907) and Guernica (1937),
a portrayal of the German bombing of
Guernica during the Spanish Civil War.
- Picasso demonstrated extraordinary
artistic talent in his early years,
painting in a realistic manner through
his childhood and adolescence; during
the first decade of the 20th century his
style changed as he experimented with
different theories, techniques, and ideas.
His revolutionary artistic
accomplishments brought him
universal renown and immense fortune,
making him one of the best-known
figures in 20th century art.
 Picasso was baptized Pablo Diego Jos
Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno
Mara de los Remedios Crispiniano de
la Santsima Trinidad, a series of
names honoring various saints and
relatives. Added to these were Ruiz and
Picasso, for his father and mother,
respectively, as per Spanish law.
 Born in the city of Mlaga in
the Andalusian region of Spain, he was the
first child of Don Jos Ruiz y Blasco (1838
1913) and Mara Picasso y Lpez
Picassos family was middle-class. His
father was a painter who specialized in
naturalistic depictions of birds and
other game. For most of his life Ruiz
was a professor of art at the School of
Crafts and a curator of a local museum.
 Picasso showed a passion and a skill for
drawing from an early age. According to
his mother, his first words were piz, piz,
a shortening of lpiz, the Spanish word for
pencil. From the age of 7, Picasso received
formal artistic training from his father in
figure drawing and oil painting. Ruiz was
a traditional, academic artist and
instructor who believed that proper
training required disciplined copying of the
masters, and drawing the human body
from plaster casts and live models.
Picassos work is often categorized into
periods:
- Blue Period (19011904)
- Rose Period (19051907)
- African-influenced Period (19081909)
- Analytic Cubism (19091912)
- Synthetic Cubism (19121919)
Art is a lie that
makes us realize the
truth.
-- PabloPicasso
- known simply as Giotto, was
an Italian painter and architect from
Florence in the late Middle Ages. He is
generally considered the first in a line of
great artists who contributed to the Italian
Renaissance
- he was given a salary by the Comune of
Florence in virtue of his talent and
excellence."
- Giotto's masterwork is the decoration of
the Scrovegni Chapel in Padua, also
known as the Arena Chapel, completed
around 1305. This fresco cycle depicts the
life of the Virgin and the life of Christ.
- Almost every other aspect of it is subject
to controversy: his birthdate, his
birthplace, his appearance, his
apprenticeship, the order in which he
created his works, whether or not he
painted the famous frescoes at Assisi, and
his burial place.
Real Name:
Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci

- an Italian Renaissance polymath:

painter, sculptor, architect, musician,
scientist, mathematician, engineer,
inventor, anatomist, geologist,
cartographer, botanist and writer
- described as the archetype of
the Renaissance Man, a man of
"unquenchable curiosity" and
"feverishly inventive imagination".
- He is widely considered to be one of
the greatest painters of all time and
perhaps the most diversely talented
person ever to have lived
- Leonardo was and is renowned primarily
as a painter. Among his works, the Mona
Lisa is the most famous and most
parodied portrait and The Last
Supper the most reproduced religious
painting of all time
- a French artist and Post-
Impressionist painter whose work laid
the foundations of the transition from
the 19th century conception of artistic
endeavour to a new and radically
different world of art in the 20th
century.
- the bridge between late 19th
century Impressionism and the early
20th century's new line of artistic
enquiry, Cubism.
- Czanne's work demonstrates a mastery of
design, colour, tone, composition and
draughtsmanship. His often repetitive,
sensitive and exploratory brushstrokes are
highly characteristic and clearly
recognizable. He used planes of colour and
small brushstrokes that build up to form
complex fields, at once both a direct
expression of the sensations of the
observing eye and an abstraction from
observed nature.
- Czanne was caught in a storm while
working in the field. Only after working for
two hours under a downpour did he decide to
go home; but on the way he collapsed. He
was taken home by a passing driver. His old
housekeeper rubbed his arms and legs to
restore the circulation; as a result, he
regained consciousness. On the following
day, he intended to continue working, but
later on he fainted; he was put to bed, and he
never left it again. He died a few days later,
on 22 October 1906. He died
of pneumonia and was buried at the old
cemetery in his beloved hometown.
Real Name:
Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn

- Born last July 15, 1606

- Dutch painter and etcher
- generally considered one of the greatest
painters and printmakers in European art
history and the most important in Dutch
history
- His contributions to art came in a period
that historians call the Dutch Golden
Age
- Having achieved youthful success as
a portrait painter, his later years were
marked by personal tragedy and
financial hardships
- greatest creative triumphs are
exemplified especially in his portraits of
his contemporaries, self-portraits and
illustrations of scenes from the Bible
- Earlier 20th century connoisseurs
claimed Rembrandt had produced over
600 paintings, nearly 400 etchings and
2,000 drawings.
- Among the more prominent
characteristics of Rembrandt's work
are his use of chiaroscuro, the theatrical
employment of light and shadow
derived from Caravaggio, or, more
likely, from the Dutch Caravaggisti.
- "Rembrandt" is a modification of the spelling
of the artist's first name that he introduced
in 1633. Roughly speaking, his earliest
signatures (ca. 1625) consisted of an
initial "R", or the monogram "RH" (for
Rembrant Harmenszoon; i.e. "Rembrant, the
son of Harmen"). In 1632, he used this
monogram early in the year, then added
his patronymic to it, "RHL-van Rijn", but
replaced this form in that same year and
began using his first name alone with its
original spelling, "Rembrant". In 1633 he
added a "d", and maintained this form
consistently from then on, proving that this
minor change had a meaning for him.