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Painting is an art that describes the blend of imagination and execution; the composition of color and structure; the replication of realistic art on canvas. It is the implementation of a born instinct, in colors bright and light.

Many artists have contributed to the respected profession of painting in various ways. They have put in great effort in various segments of the 'colorful' field, like abstract art, contemporary art, landscape, people and so on. Many of the artists are influenced by the powerful movement impressionism, where the effect is clearly shown in their paintings.

Among the European painters, there are a number of powerful names worth mentioning. Vincent van Gogh, the legend was born in Holland who was deeply spiritual in nature. His paintings captured his deep affinity to nature and the miserable lives of workers and peasants in dark colors. Van Gogh was the first to discover impressionism and is also one of the precursors of Fauvism and Expressionism.

The artist who placed greater importance for color in his paintings, Albrecht Durer was also a great admirer of Leonardo da Vinci. The greater exponent of Northern European Renaissance art, Durer was renowned mainly for his graphic works. He was copied by artists across Europe for mainly of his innovative religious and mythological scenes. His oil paintings Pond in the Woods, The Large Turf, Willow Mill etc has gained wide acclaim.

Alexander Cabanel was a born artist. He became the most popular portrait painter of his time through his ever remembering oil paintings like Paige, The Birth of Venus, Ophelia and the Roman Monk.

A pure landscape painter, Alfred Sisley was totally unconcerned with the challenge of history painting. An ardent impressionist, Sisley celebrated the intimate qualities of the places he lived in, exploring the effects of mapping scenes and a variety of viewpoints in different seasons. He had shown magic through careful brushstrokes in The Aqueduct at Marley, Moret-sur-Loing, The Moret Bridge in the Sunlight and so on.

Auguste Macke's paintings were a mix of impressionism, Fauvism, and Orphism. All his paintings had life and were exceptionally unique from other Expressionists. Macke used high toned colors like red, yellow, green defined by firm linear patterns. His Toys and Biological Garden are worth mentioning.

The beauty and perfect finish of the Rose Garden, Pergola in Amalfi and Loggia fra Como reminds us of the great artist, Carl Frederic Aagard. So do the paintings of Camille Pissarro who established himself as one of the Master artists of the nineteenth century. Pissarro, a painter of sunshine, expressed reality of pictures, by capturing the effects of light in a canvas, so different and perfect.

Monet employed his own free techniques in his paintings breaking the hard and dry rules already prevailed. He had a style broad, visible, and expressive. He also explored the changes of light and color under various atmospheric conditions and at various times of the day.

The great artist who was one of the most influential of the 19th century, Edward Manet, inspired the impressionist style. His technique was unique, skill and originality distinct. The oil paintings, Bouquet of Flowers, Boating, and Vase of Peonies had gained wide acclaim.

Edvard Munch deserves special mention in the most attractive paintings showing intense emotions in simplified forms and blocks of pure color. He pointed the way for the development of German Expressionist painting. Rodin's the Thinker; Man in a Cabbage field, The Scream all shows the instrumental development of expressionism through his minute forms.

Lord Frederic Leighton's paintings were all highly professional and of competent quality. The artist had a great knowledge of classical sculpture which was clearly reflected in his paintings. Gustav Klimt is another great artist who was also the founder of Vienna Secession, the Austrian Art Nouveau Movement. His mural works especially for theaters was painted in an unremarkable naturalistic style.

Gustave Caillebotte was the earliest patrons of the impressionists. He was influenced by the paintings of Degas and it was reflected in the treatment of his urban subjects orchestrated by conventional craftsmanship. Henry Matisse was one of the painters of primitive conventional art. He concentrated mainly on the subjects like women, interiors and still lifes. A man of great intellect, Matisse was the leader of Fauvism.

The vigor of the brushworks of Armand Guillaumin and the obvious lyrical zest that informs his landscape bring him close to van Gogh. Oil paintings like Bridge in the Mountains, Gust of Wind, Grainstacks etc replicate the brilliance and skill of the painter. The Girl with a Pearl Earring and the Little Street of the great artist called, Johannes Vermeer. He experimented with art bringing out cool colors like blue, white and yellow in almost all his pictures.

Like Juan Gris who had lot of collection in his name, so do Kasimir Malevich who painted in a representational style. Most of his paintings are in an abstract from which shows the influence of contemporary abstract painters. For instance is his, Taking in the Rye, Running Man, Prototype of a New Image and An English Man in Moscow.

The enigmatic Mona Lisa reminds us of Leonardo Da Vinci who was always fascinated by the mystery of human faces and the possibility of reading the motions of the soul through facial expressions and gestures. Embodying the renaissance idea of the artist as a creative thinker, he pioneered the style of balance, serenity and technical accomplishment in a renaissance touch. Madonna Litta, Portrait of a Musician, and Lady with an Ermine are his other painting wonders.

Among the European artists, the name of Michelangelo Buonarroti deserves special mention. He was the first artist recognized as a genius by contemporaries. The Creation of Adam, Creation of Sun, Moon and Plants, Temptation and Expulsion from Paradise etc are his renowned works that stand apart.

Paul Klee was one of the most original masters of modern art. His exceptional works include fantastic dream images, wit, and imagination. All his earlier works were influenced by impressionism. The later surrealists of 20th century were influenced by the artists' expressionist treatment of paintings.

Pierre Auguste Renoire is one of the world's most important artists. Renoir's paintings show vibrant light and color, and harmony of lines. Unlike many impressionists who focused on landscapes, he painted people in intimate and candid compositions. A prolific painter, he made several thousand paintings. The warm sensuality of Renoir's painting made his work some the best known and frequently reproduced work in the history of art.

Thomas Gainsborough is one of the most famous portrait painter and landscape painter of 18th century Britain. Gainsborough painted more from his observations of nature than from any application of formal rules. The poetic sensibility of his paintings caused another artist to say, On looking at them, we find tears in our eyes and know not what brings them.

The Russian born French painter, Wassily Kandinsky was one of the most important 20th century artists. The creation by Kandinsky of purely abstract work was not an abrupt change, but rather the fruit of a long development and maturation of intense theoretical thought based on his personal experience of painting. All his devotion to painting was born out of an internal instinct to draw. Gravitation, Color Studies, Upwards 1929, etc are some of his famous works.

Joseph Stella pioneered Futurism in America. His paintings on Coney islands were all the more famous. Old Brookylin Bridge, Metropolitan Port, City Buildings, Factories, Dance of Spring etc are all his ever famous works. Antonio Jacobsen was another brilliant artist was famous for his images of the ships in different settings.

These painters express their instinct in different forms and styles employing different techniques already prevailing and also innovative. But the collection of all these painters is novel and enterprising in its own unique and distinct ways.

American Artists

There have been many who have brushed their own ideas in a form, colorful, bright, unique and sometimes eccentric. They were all called in many names; depending upon the category they belonged to or the kind of work they did. But all those creative minds were known to the entire world exclusively as ‘artists’. They were respected all over as innovative heads, who brought out expressions from life, in a way profound and meaningful.

There were many well known American artists who have excelled themselves in their respective fields of painting. To name a few are Albert Bierstadt, Arthur Dove, Childe Hassam, Edward Hicks, Frederic Edwin Church, Remington, Charles Stuart, John Frost, John Singer Sargent, Mary Cassatt, Steele, Thomas Cole, Eakins, Thomas Moran, Homer and James Bard.

Best known for his large, detailed landscape paintings, Albert Bierstadt was an ardent Romanticist. His canvasses were uncommonly large and his paintings often reflected of those of his contemporaries. His choice of subjects and treatment of light were different and often fell into the hands of critics. Because of Bierstadts interest in mountain landscapes, Mount Bierstadt in Colorado is named in his honor.

Arthur Dove was the first American artist to employ abstraction in his paintings. Those abstractions he presented in his lively paintings were distracted from the external world altogether. Those were bold overlapping forms that denied illusionistic space while exuding a dynamic energy.

Frederic childe Hassam was an American impressionist painter. He was the leader of the Ten American Painters group who seceded from the Society of American Artists in 1898. He created his era’s finest urban scenes especially of Europe city. He also drew vivid landscapes and figural works. Many of his paintings, The Banyard, At the Piano and Mr.Hassam’s Garden at East Hampton are quite famous.

Edward Hicks, one of the primitive artists, was best known for his various versions of the painting Peacebale Kingdom. His subjects were mainly religious along with farm scenes, events in Pensylvannia, and Bible stories. His Noah’s Ark and The Cornell are quite famous.

An American landscape painter, Frederic Edwin Church, was a central figure among the American landscape painters. For his spectacular and panoramic paintings of the wilderness of North and South America, his canvases celebrated the drama of the American frontier, expressing the expansionist and optimistic outlook of the United States in the mid-nineteenth century.

The number of paintings of Stuart did increase his popularity as a painter among the artists’ circle. James Madison, George Washington, John Adams and James Moore are some among his most famous works. John Frost is another important name that needs to be mentioned. His California paintings are quite famous for the Sierra Mountain and desert scenes.

John Singer Sargent is one of the world’s greatest portraists mostly focused on the aristocratic refinement and individual hauteur. He was perhaps the most sought after american artist of the time. He was especially known for his portraits which captured the individuality and personality of the sitters. Even though he was no impressioonist painter, he often used impressionistic technique.

Another famous American artist is Mary Cassatt. Her colors were too bright and her portraits too accurate to be flattering to the subjects. From using impressionism in her paintings she moved to simpler straightforward approach. The name of Clement Steele also deserves special mention. He was considered as one of the finest of the impressionist painters.

Thomas Cole is generally regarded as the first great American landscape painter. A great artist, he drew from casts and old master and American landscape paintings. Along with him can be remembered the name of Eakins who was often heralded as the greatest American painter of the nineteenth century. His artwork found little success in either American collections or by the critics because Americans at the time preferred bright colors and classical idealism of artists like William Bouguereau and Alexander Cabanel.

Thomas Moran was an artist of the Hudson River School whose vision of the Western landscape was critical to the creation of Yellowstone National Park. His field sketches and paintings captured the real excellence and beauty of the Yellowstone region. The artist was extraordinarily skilled not only in his field, but as an etcher too.

The American landscaper, Winslow Homer’s works, mostly engravings, are characterized by clean outlines, simplified forms, dramatic contrast of light and dark, and lively figure groupings. Those were the real qualities that remained important throughout his career. Homer’s watercolor paintings show a fresh, spontaneous, loose, yet natural style.

These painters make a mark of their own in the colorful history of painting. There remain fantastic creatives of other skilled artists that have not been mentioned here. Those works remain eternal and worth remembering as of the others.

European/American Artists

Antonio Jacobsen was known as the Audubon of Steam Vessels. He has under his name immortal paintings on ships and marine engines. He had also worked on the same portrait of different ships in different settings.

An experimenter with light and shadow, John George Brown had painted hundreds of street youngsters. He had gained recognition as one of the 19th century Americas most skilled painters of children apart from which his images spoke about popular notions which added to his painting presentation.

Another great artist, Joseph Stella’s paintings on Coney islands were all the more famous. Metropolitan Port, City Buildings, Factories, Dance of Spring etc are worth remembering.

A marine landscape painter, Thomas Birch was specially noted for his ship portraits, seascapes and winter scenes. His paintings of naval battles of the war of 1812, is also quite famous.

Mexican Artists

Mexican painters have excelled themselves in the beautiful art of painting. They have produced amazing works that remain eternal in the history of the art. Among the Mexican artists, Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo deserve special mention. Rare

An outstanding cubist painter and talented muralist, Diego Rivera portrayed mainly Mexican life and life styles. He has a number of frescoes in US mostly consisting of industrial life. He successfully presented ethnic Mexican subjects in a political context. He was a controversial figure in the society because of attacks on the church and the clergy.

Kahlo paintings were mostly self-portraits and still lives. Those paintings were deliberately naive, filled with bright colors and flattened forms of the Mexican folk art she loved. Frida Kahlo’s style combined realism and symbolism. She was an active Communist supporter, and wife of the Mexican muralist and cubist painter Diego Rivera.

Canadian Artists

There is a collection of abstract and contemporary paintings that remains eternal in the history of painting. Some works on still lifes, home scenes, life and life styles of a group of people also stands apart in these rare compilations of Canadian artists. Sketches on Autumn Birches, Spring Lake, Woods Interior, Back Garden and Autumn Landscape are exceptional works of art.

One of the influential artists of the nineteenth century, Tom Thompson was known for his quiet landscape and bright inspiring colors. The Jack Pine and West Wind of Thompson are quite famous. Polars by a Lake, Spring Lake, Campfire and Autumn’s Garland are his other renowned works.

The Canadian artist and writer, Emily Carr was most heavily influenced by the landscape and the cultures of British Columbia, Alaska and elsewhere in the Pacific Northwest. She was the winner of many Canadian and US awards for her contributions to painting.

Prudence Heward is famous for her portraits that provide compelling representations of women and children. Her Vase of Flowers, Autumn Landscape, Autumn Hills etc deserves special mention in the category she sketched.

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