Famous Art Paintings & Artists

What paintings are famous art?
Since there is no formal measurement for works of art in museums perhaps the question should be rephrased: What makes art work famous? The answer starts with the painters and their reputation from individual pieces and their art works as a whole. For example Picasso is an enormously big name in the art world and his styles are very familiar and well known. No question it is famous art but no single piece comes to mind as popular as the many images imitating Leonardo Da Vinci’s famous oil painting of Mona Lisa.

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Famous Spanish artist Salvador Dali is well known for his many paintings in the surrealist art style but most people would recognize his most famous painting called Persistence of Memory with the melting watches in front of a barren landscape. He has many big selling reproductions as signed and numbered art prints in museums, galleries and private collections around the world and this would qualify as famous art.
How did the Medici family change Medieval art?
The Renaissance started in the Italian city of Florence and the Medicis were a rich family that sponsored many artistic projects that became very famous art. Not every piece centered around the Christian religion which had dominated the art scene. Many new artistic concepts were developed during this period and they in turn spawned changes in art throughout all of Europe for several hundred years.

In modern times abstract art became highly developed as did Pop Art. Andy Warhol is one of the most well recognized in the Pop Art Movement with his Campbell’s Soup Cans and portraits of Marilyn Monroe done with silk screen techniques.

Doug’s List of Famous Art:
• Mona Lisa – Leonardo Da Vinci
• The Scream – Edvard Munch
• Last Supper – Leonardo Da Vinci
• Starry Night – Vincent Van Gogh
• The Thinker – Auguste Rodin (sculpture)
• American Gothic – Grant Wood
• Un dimanche après-midi à l'Ile de la Grande Jatte- Georges Seurat

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Famous Art Paintings

Famous Portrait Paintings

Many famous portrait paintings from contemporary art painters were of celebrities or wealthy patrons of the art galleries for the artists.

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Other Pages of Interest

The California Art pages can be found on this page.

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The Andy Warhol Art information can be found on this page.
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