The best paintings simply take your breath away! They have a unique theme or a new painting style that makes it to standout in this crowded field.
Many of these paintings are a testimony to the skill and talents of many artists from different parts of the world. Pablo Picasso rightly said that every child is a born artist, the problem is to retain that artist within themselves.
This universe is full of art and inspiration, which is what everyone can see, but it takes a really talented and visionary artist to pick paint and brush and illustrate their thoughts, visions, and this beautiful universe into paintings.
We have listed the most famous painting of all time.
Most Beautiful and Expensive Paintings
To blow you off the ground, we have gone through the great detail to find some of the best art work that has ever been produced. Below are 35 most beautiful, famous and expensive paintings of all times.
1. Monalisa
- Artist: Leonardo da Vinci
- Location: Louvre Museum (since 1797)
- Title: Lisa del Giocondo
- Created: 1503
Probably the most famous painting in the world is Monalisa by Leonardo da Vinci. It is a portrait of a lady called Gherardini and is famous because the lady’s expression is indecipherable. This painting is currently displayed in Louvre, France.
2. School of Athens
- Artist: Raphael
- Location: Apostolic Palace, Vatican City
- Title: Ancient Greece
- Created: 1509 To 1511
Painted by Raphael, this painting contains pictures of famous philosophers such as Plato and Aristotle walking in the middle along with other philosophers on the sides. It is now located in the Vatican.
3. Night Watch
- Artist: Rembrandt
- Location: Rijksmuseum
- Title: Frans Banninck Cocq, Schutterij
- Created: 1642
Night Watch is one of the most popular pieces of work by Rembrandt. It depicts an entire city moving out led by its captain. A unique aspect is its dark varnish that gives an impression of night scene. It is currently housed in Riksmuseum in Amsterdam.
4. Beheading of Saint John the Baptist
- Artist: Caravaggio
- Location: St. John’s Co-Cathedral
- Title: John the Baptist
- Created: 1608
This painting by Caravaggio shows a realistic depiction of a murder moment in a prison. The gloom of the picture and the expressions of the onlookers make it a true classical masterpiece. It is displayed in St. John’s Cathedral in Valletta, Malta.
5. Girl with a Pearl Earring
- Artist: Johannes Vermeer
- Location: Rijksmuseum
- Title: Dutch Golden Age
- Created: 1665
The Girl With a Pearl Earring is often known as Dutch Monalisa because the expression on the girl’s face is hard to understand. This painting by Johannes Vermeer has her pearl earrings as the focal point.
6. The Birth of Venus
- Artist: Sandro Botticelli
- Location: Uffizi Galleries
- Title: Venus
- Created: 1485–1486
The Birth of Venus by Sandro Botticelli is a painting that depicts the emergence of Goddess Venus from the sea as a beautiful woman. The most striking part of this simple painting is the beautiful face of Goddess Venus and her shy posture. It is currently housed in Florence’s Uffizi Gallery.
7. Dogs Playing Poker
- Artist: Cassius Marcellus Coolidge
- Location: Cassius Marcellus Coolidge Gallery
- Title: The Dogs
- Created: 1894 -1910
Painted in 1903 by C.M. Coolidge, this painting has 16 images of dogs sitting around a poker table and playing cards. This painting was an iconic depiction of Americans during the early part of 19th century.
8. Portrait of Madame Recamier
- Artist: Jacques-Louis David
- Location: Louvre Museum
- Title: Juliette Récamier
- Created: 1800
This portrait shows Juliette Recamier sitting on a style sofa in a simple dress with bare arms. This painting steeped in neoclassical fashion is now located at Louvre in France.
9. No.5, 1948
- Artist: Jackson Pollock
- Location: Private collection, New York
- Year: 1948
This famous painting by Jackson Pollock is a signature piece of art that depicts the chaos raging within Pollock at the time of painting. The many swirls and meshes make it a unique piece of work. For these reasons, it is one of the most expensive paintings ever sold by an American artist as it was sold for a huge $140 million.
10. The Son of Man
- Artist: René Magritte
- Location: Private collection
- Title: René Magritte
- Created: 1964
The Son of Man, painted by Rene Magrittees, is a piece of work that shows his own self in a black suit, but with an apple instead of his face.
11. Royal Red and Blue
- Artist: Mark Rothko
- Location: Washington Color School
- Year: 1954
This recent painting by Mark Rothko shows royal blue and red squares on a canvas. The highlight of this painting is its hand-made canvas, and it is currently placed in the Art Institute at Chicago.
12. Massacre of the Innocents
- Artist: Peter Paul Rubens
- Location: Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto
- Created: 1611–1612
Based on the biblical massacre of innocents in Bethlehem, this painting by Peter Paul Rubens strikes a chilling note in the minds of viewers.
13. A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte
- Artist: Georges Seurat
- Location: The Art Institute of Chicago
- Title: Sunday Afternoon
- Created:1884 to 1886
Created by Georges Suerat, it shows the relaxed atmosphere of people on a lazy Sunday afternoon in an island. This painting is an excellent example of pointillism, where many dots are joined together to create an image.
14. The Wounded Angel
- Artist: Hugo Simberg
- Location: Ateneum, Helsinki
- Title: Wounded Angel
- Created: 1903
The painting with two gloomy boys carrying an angel on a stretcher with bandaged forehead and a bloodied wing makes people curious in a second. And the direct gaze of the boy to the right touches the viewers ‘soul. The composition is still considered as one of the finest work of art since 1903, and it is in the same year it was produced by Finnish symbolist painter Hugo Simberg.
15. American Gothic
- Artist: Grant Wood
- Location: Art Institute of Chicago Building (since 1930), Royal Academy of Arts (2017)
- Title: Farmer, Midwestern United States
- Created: 1930
American Gothic symbolizes the grit and determination of Americans during the Great Depression. In this painting, Grant Wood, shows a stern-looking couple standing in front of a house with Gothic windows.
16. The Flower Carrier
- Artist: Diego Rivera
- Location: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
- Title: Flower
- Created: 1935
Painted by the most popular Mexican painter of the 20th century, this painting shows how a person is struggling to carry a huge flower basket on his back. Its bright colors are a trademark of Diego Rivera.
17. Whistler’s Mother
- Artist: James McNeill Whistler
- Location: Louvre Abu Dhabi (until 2019) Musée d’Orsay (since 2019)
- Title: Anna McNeill Whistler
- Created: 1871
Also known as “Arrangement in Grey and Black. The Artist’s Mother,” it is one of the most famous painting by American artist James McNeill Whistler. In this painting, Whistler depicts his mother sitting on a chair against a grey wall. This painting is so called because the artist has used only black and grey shades in this painting.
18. The Persistence of Memory
- Artist: Salvador Dalí
- Location: The Museum of Modern Art
- Created: 1931
This painting by the Spanish artist Salvador Dali is a classic example of surrealism where hard and soft things are present side by side. In this picture, a soft image of clock slides in the background of a hard table.
19. Portrait of Dora Maar
- Artist: Pablo Picasso
- Location: Musée Picasso, Paris
- Title: Dora Maar, Chair
- Created: 1937
Pablo Picasso is one of the most accomplished Spanish painter, and his skill is most evident in this painting. He is the founder of a style called Cubism that shows the same picture from different angles. This picture is about a woman’s face, believed to that of Picasso’s lover, shown from different angles, thereby marking the first of many paintings in cubism style.
20. Portrait de L’Artiste Sans Barbe
- Artist: Vincent van Gogh
- Location: Musée d’Orsay in Paris
- Created: 1889
This painting by Van Gogh is an interesting piece because it shows the artist without his beard. It is also one of the few paintings sold by Van Gogh, and it fetched a whopping $71.5 million in 1998, making it one of his most expensive paintings ever sold.
21. Cafe Terrace at Night
- Artist: Vincent van Gogh
- Location: Kröller-Müller Museum
- Title: Cafe Terrace
- Created: 1888
Painted by Vincent Van Gogh, this painting shows an everyday setting in bright colors. A simple dinner at a cafe along a street is well-depicted in this simple painting.
22. Composition 8
- Artist: Wassily Kandinsky
- Location: Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
- Title: Geometric Forms
- Created: 1923
Kandinsky is often known as the founder of abstract art, a form that uses shapes and symbols instead of real people. Composition 8 is one of his first paintings that expound this form of art.
23. The Kiss
- Artist: Gustav Klimt
- Location: Belvedere Palace
- Title: Couple Embracing
- Created: 1907–1908
One of the first pieces of art in the Art Nouveau style, this painting used gold leaf as the background. Created by Gustav Klimt, this painting is renowned for this style.
24. La Moulin de la Galette
- Artist: Pierre-Auguste Renoir
- Location: Musée d’Orsay
- Title: Le Moulin de la Galette
- Created: 1876
The name of this painting translates to “Pastry Chef” and is a vivid description of a city life. This painting by Renoir is also one of the most expensive paintings ever bought.
25. Olympia
- Artist: Édouard Manet
- Location: Musée d’Orsay
- Title: Woman
- Created: 1863
Olmpia by Edouard Manet created quite a controversy as it showed a woman with a gaze and subtlety that indicated that she is a mistress. It is also a good early example of realism style.
26. The Third of May
- Artist: Francisco Goya
- Location: Museo Nacional del Prado
- Title: Spanish resistance to Napoleon’s
- Created: 1814
This painting by Francisco Goya shows Napoleon’s attack on Spaniards. This is one of the first SPanish paintings to show war in bad light.
27. Las Meninas
- Artist: Diego Velázquez
- Location: museo nacional del prado
- Title: Philip IV of Spain, Margaret Theresa of Spain,
- Created: 1656
Las Meninas portrays Margarita Teresa of Spain as a young child along with the King and Queen of Spain. Painted by Diego Valazquez, this is conisdered to be an important baroque painting.
28. The Arnolfini Marriage
- Artist: Jan van Eyck
- Location: The National Gallery
- Title: Marriage
- Created: 1434
This painting is one of the oldest preserved ones dating back to 1434. It was done by Jan van Eyck and portrays the Italian businessman Giovanni Arnolfini and his pregnant wife in their home in the city of Bruges.
29. The Scream
- Artist: Edvard Munch
- Location: National Museum
- Title: Psychological Anguish
- Created: 1893
The Scream is a painting by Edvard Munch of Norway and it shows the distorted face of a figure against a bloody sky. The hill landscape in the background adds to this picture’s charm. It is also one of the first few paintings done in expessionism style where the reality is blurred to give more importance to emotions.
30. Water Lilies
- Artist: Claude Monet
- Location: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Musée de l’Orangerie, Paris
- Title: Flower Garden
- Created: 1840–1926
Water lilies, painted by Claude Monet, is a series of 250 oil paintings based on his own flower garden. These paintings are located in different art museums world over.
31. Starry Night
- Artist: Vincent van Gogh
- Location: The Museum of Modern Art
- Title: Saint-Rémy-de-Provence
- Created: 1889
Starry Night by Vincent Van Gogh shows the village of Saint-Remy under a swirling sun. It is one of the most well-known images in modern culture and is currently housed in the Museum of Modern Art in New York.
32. Landscape with the Fall of Icarus
- Artist: Pieter Bruegel the Elder
- Location: Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium
- Title: Icarus
- Year: 1560
This painting by Dutch artist Pieter Bruegel shows man’s indifference to the suffering of his fellowmen. It is a powerful theme shown in a rather simple way with Icarus, the Greek character suffering under water and people going on with their work.
33. The Creation of Adam
- Artist: Michelangelo
- Location: Sistine Chapel
- Title: Adam
- Created: 1512
The Creation of Adam by Michelangelo shows how God created Adam. It is one of the paintings that adorn the 12,000 square feet area of the Sistine Chapel in Vatican City.
34. The Last Supper
- Artist: Leonardo da Vinci
- Location: Santa Maria delle Grazie
- Title: Jesus
- Year: 1495–1498
The Last Supper is a painting that depicts the last meal that Jesus had with his disciples. Displayed at the dining hall of Santa Maria delle Grazie in Milan, this painting has also created much controversy around Mary Magdalene, the supposed character sitting next to Jesus.
35. Guernica
- Artist: Pablo Picasso
- Location: Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía
- Title: Spanish Civil War
- Created: 1937
Guernica by Picasso depicts the bombing of the city of the Spanish city of Guernica during the Spanish Civil War. It is a black and white painting that shows the role of Italians and Germans in this bombing.
Sum Up
All these details are about the most famous paintings of all time. These paintings reflect human art and a sense of adoption history from different eras. From Adams’s birth concepts to Jesus and the Spanish War to Monalisa painting, each painting has its own charm and history.
I dont think there can be ONE compiled list of the most famous paintings since there are a lot of countries with their own cultures and eras and mindsets, and its a broad area to categorize, but I think you did a good enough job anyway. However I feel that this list is quite narrow, there are quite a few revolutionary movements you missed like dadaism, de stijl, minimalism, abstract expressionism, to name a few. However you did a good job, thank you
I think that I completely agree with your comment.
I like paint and I love drawing especially on myself
I did not like any of them
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Dadaism and surrealism are so closely related I’ll count it, de Stijl might as well be minimalism ( which is covered in Mark Rothko’s piece #30), but is definitely congruent with Kandinsky’s innovation (piece #19), Jackson Pollock’s piece is THE DEFINITION of abstract expressionism and you sir are dumb.
Agree. So many men, so many minds! What one considers interesting, someone may consider absurd. Is it actually possible to make a list of the best paintings?
I think this is a well group of choices. Of course, there are millions of paintings, but I can go with this list. I lean towards, Monet, Picasso, Van Goh,, I have no additions to your list, you made good choices.
Agreed
I love fine art when I see it I feel geek..lol love me some Pablo Picasso and Leonardo da Vinci
Tell me do you live art or just those artists because their famous
As I exited an art gallery some years ago the curator of the museum asked if I enjoyed my visit. I told him that there were a few exhibits that I really liked. He told me that that pleased him as if there was but one that I liked they had done their job.
Although each artist has great sense of art but I like william tyller painting. His Painting has a meaning and lesson to everyone that took my attention and that’s how the artist should be.
Starry Night. I could look at it hours.
honestly same like i don’t know why i feel like i could stare at it for hour at most but i just could like it’s so pretty and i’m just so drawn to it like even other paintings Vincent does that are really nice but i’m mostly drawn to starry night
Could someone explain the art of Mark Rothko please.
It’s based majorly on the experience of looking at it. Try visiting the Rothko chapel if you’re ever in Huston. He was a very emotional and contemplative man.
I love Guernica. It’s so expressive!
Yes I like it too
Concerning the Night Watch: It’s Rijksmuseum not Riksmuseum
For me the best has been picasso
I have seen 5 of them so far and it makes me sad that some are not possible to see. It’s a good thing we can at least see them like this.
The Pollock shown in entry #32 isn’t No. 5 — it’s actually Autumn Rhythm, located at the Met in NYC. 🙂
my favourite is #19
It’s abstract and everybody can make out it in their way.
i love that piece work
am a fun of art from Uganda
This cannot be possible that no painting from the Indian or Arab or Chinese Culture can be present on this list. I could ask “Why is that so?”
The only present are the Western Cultures . Does
other cultures of the world haven’t got any grandeur?
Dear Friend, I don’t know about Indian or chineese, but as far as the arab world is concerned, they did not paint in those early days, or if they did it was on the snad. Nevertheless they wrote poetry 🙂
However now I have gathered around 150 middle eastern artists in my website:
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i love it
hy men could some one explain about the school of athens
The Mona Lisa isn’t famous because of her smile.
There are two main factors that experts believe contributed to the painting’s immense fame.
1). All the publicity it got when it was stolen.
2.) The fact that Da Vinci always carried the painting with him, died with it next to him, and said “This is my best painting.”
Aa a matter of fact it was bought by Napoleon. After that I didn’t heard he “sleep” with her anymore…
I like several of them, the Van Goghs, the Rivera, the Seurat. Pls note that the caption has Suerat, which is incorrect. I have long loved the Dali, have tried for years to write a poem based on it, but nothing says it better than the image itself.
I think the Pollock IS No. 5 and not No. 32 as someone has suggested. No. 32 is quite different in colour but I am no expert, and searching on the numbers also brings up the NO. 5 when looking for 32.
I know these paintings are beautiful, but it is NO help with my work!
You’re using an incorrect photo of ‘The Kiss’, that’s not it!
There is pretty much every painting that I assumed. BUT where is the The Grate Wave off Kanagawa?
It should be in top 10 if asking me. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_Wave_off_Kanagawa
And also Saturn Devouring His Son should be in top 35 I think. It’s pretty nasty painting though.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturn_Devouring_His_Son
no, it’s called vore
Thanks! It helps with my homework.
Night Watch is the best.
La Moulin de la Galette and Massacre of the Innocents are the reality of the history.
Monalisa is my favorite.
There are a few mistakes to correct in here. As an earlier commenter pointed out, the Pollack painting depicted is not No. 5, 1948; it is in fact One: Number 31, 1950, on display at MoMA (which your picture clearly shows, rather than the privately held No. 5, 1948). Also, painting number 17 is fully titled ‘Bal du moulin de la Galette’ and does not translate to ‘Pastry Chef’, but to ‘Dance at the Moulin de Galette’ (which in turn is a place name/windmill and would roughly translate to ‘brown bread/crusty cake windmill’).
Pollock with an ‘O’ if we are nitpicking
Sad.. where is Frida Kahlo and her amazing art??? 🙁
Not a single woman artist is represented here. This is another list simply perpetuating the myth of western male superiority. There are many great paintings by women and it is tedious that lists like this systematically overlook the work of women and no one even comments on it.
PLEASE CHANGE THE KLINT PAINTING IS FALSE!!!!
HERE IS A PICTURE OF THE ORIGINAL:
https://i0.wp.com/upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/40/The_Kiss_-_Gustav_Klimt_-_Google_Cultural_Institute.jpg
HELP KLINT WITH THESE NOT SO GOOD COPY!!!
My favorite artist is Van Gogh because I think the way he does his work is amazing. The way he draws pictures, he put marks. Like he puts a lot of marks and then it turns into a picture. I think that’s pretty impressive.
I don’t understand paintings but The scream by Edward Munch has dragged me in into this wonderful world. Old guitarist by Pablo Picasso is also my favourite painting. I emphasise again I don’t understand paintings.
35 paintings not one female artist named! Nothing from anything outside Western culture!
Yes 35 paintings and not one female artist named! Also, not one Japanese artist named, not one black artist named, not one artist under sixteen named. None of these are complaining but we simply must complain if there is a gender imbalance, right?
Please!
There is no doubt that women have produced great art but the point here is not to fight a crusade for equality but to admire paintings.
If there was interest in female paintings then it would be viewed or popular. Painting wasnt exactly a female profession until recent times. Name me 2 famous female generals, 3 famous astronomers, 4 female pioneer medical researchers. It is a struggle because they werent involved to the same extent as men. Next you will claim obese gays, or eskimos are under represented. For fucks sake
I are right but this is just example what adverts do to people mind
Ugly painting are sold for million and the art is forgotten
I also agree that Picasso was a great artists, but I believe Las Meninas by Valazquez is an amazing piece. As well as Dali.
I know these paintings are beautiful, I like several of them, the Van Goghs, the Rivera, the Seurat. i also have listed some of the famous indian painters and Famous paintings techniques. the link is in My name . Kudos to your efforts 😀
The “Meninas” of Velazquez is for me the best, you can feel the atmosphere in the room of the painting, it is like a photo taken at that moment, for the revolutionary method of painting, innovation and beauty it is The Painting.
Starry night 🌌
Wat is kunst? kennen? ja!
Media is kunst.
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Very nice images. But I’m quite disappointed because there is no painting from India.
Raja Ravivarma ‘s paintings are rearlly great painting and please add those paintings. Indians are the real Art lovers..
Night watch is the best thinks
You could have mentioned the artist name along with the painting details. Makes us do extra homework by googling the artist of the painting.
Where is the art of Degas?? Any masterpiece would fetch an astronomical price if it ever landed on tbe art market (as the Pollocks did) so I have trouble with the decision to include multiple Picassos and Van Goghs, and instead choosing to omit at least one painting by another master, like Whistler, or even a Boldoni (my personal favorite portaiter if the 19th century). And the name of the artist of the Juliette Recamier portrait is missing.
Whoops. I see Whistler’s Mother made the cut after all. 😊
Great job Ahmed Raza. The very nature of the topic, choosing from the world’s best artwork, is mind boggling. No one can make a ‘complete ‘ list or a ‘perfect’ list. You came closest to completion or perfection than most others who dared take up this daunting task. Congratulations. Please give us more. May be the best statues. Or the best architectural masterpieces. Thanks.
My favorite is the girl with the pearl necklace, soemthing about her eyes, good looking women too, for the top piece has to be The Creation of Adam, its epic on a scale I cant even imagine.
The spolarium should be in here
Who painted 7#
The girl with the pearl earring touches me with her look….it transcends over centuries. Most other paintings I find a bit boring children of their own time.
ya dat gross and I DISAGREE
I love everything in the world EVERYTHING even bugs and paintings. But the best picture is the don of man. HE HAS (Chuckles) An APPLE FOR A FACE!
(trinidad’s brother) OOPS SORRY MEANT (chuckles) SON OF MAN!!!!
MICHIALANGELO GREATLY PAINTING THE SISTINE CHAPEL ON HIS BACK WINS “THE MISSION IMPOSSIBLE AWARD”
Just like a list of favourite pop, rock or classical songs or the most beautiful women in the world,these compilations will be highly subjective so I will take them as entertaining & fun rather than comprehensive and exhaustive. Just back from Morocco, and some of the art there was simply stunning. No Asian ,Persian,Chinese,female artists’ or my favourite, Carravaggio in the style of Chiaroscuro. Where is the super at Emmaus?
Nothing by Piero della Francesca! Rothke compared to Piero is a kindergartner dipping his hands in paint and saying, Gee! , what a good boy am I.
Unbelievable that dogs playing poker would make this list, and not a single Titian or Georgia O’Keeffe.
The Creation of Adam,
Excellent and Pure Painting
Like the handing over of authority, power; in such an enduring, strikingly innocent gait.
Whatever the value of this list may be, it’s quite astonishing to see a relative majority of the pieces (9!) comes from the low countries, besting culturally ever-dominant France (7). Van Gogh alo seems the most famous painter, according to the list (3)
Where is Aivazovsky, the greatest Russian master of marine art? Are you kidding me!
La moulin de Gallette seemed so life like and depicted a casual evening in a loving city.
“Pastry Chef” that’s how you paint!
Drawing is my chilhood hobby and visvualizing these paintings of these famous artists really made my day. Thanks for Sharing!
Love “Massacre of the Innocents” by Peter Paul Rubens the most. It is very difficult to paint multi-figure painting.
And where is John William Waterhouse’s paintings?
The Kilmt painting is a copy, and not a very good one.
Yes me too I like the painting
I am at the beginning of a Bachelor of Fine Arts with Honours and for me it is a toss up between Van Gogh’s ‘Starry Night’ & Matisse’s ‘The Dance’. Both for their colour, movement and composition.
“Portrait of Dora Maar” EYE CATCHING AND BEAUTIFUL
Shame on you for not including Georgia O’Keefe. There are many great paintings that this list neglected to include. It’s only male artists who have created the best paintings in the history of fine art…really?
I love looking at these most famous paintings. I usually spend a long time soaking in the particular elements which lend to the overall attraction. One of these that stops me every time – I can’t get by it without being rapt by its haunting appeal – is Vermeer’s Girl With a Pearl Earring. Amazing and captivating.
I am saddend by the lack of knowledge, & deplorable writing skills of some of these comments. Western culture did not allow women to openly paint, let alone read. This is why you see very few women artists represented until the present time. Other cultures (China, India…) do have their own beautiful examples of art & culture, but oil paints, cloth canvas, ghesso, acrylics… were not typically utilised until more recent times. This is why we have museums, to learn, study, enjoy, & appreciate every cultures’ unique artistry. You may not find all visually appealing, but art is for individual interpretation & provokes inner contemplation. Just a thought. I enjoyed viewing the paintings & appreciate that in my modern world, I have the ability to see that which was at one time, unattainable. No Alphonse Mucha??
I paint and now I believe I am an unknown genius because by definition I paint only from my mind and not from real life. I love those capable of realism for their ability to put reality on canvas or board but I frustrate my self trying to emulate them, I soar when I paint with the freedom of my thoughts. My canvases are given not sold, they are like children to me and now as I age, I wish them to return, it will not happen. perhaps a few hundred years from now they will still be hung and admired, discussed and interpreted, studied and imitated and valued.
🎨list of many refined male artists 🖼 very good
Great list. But I would have included La Belle Dame Sans Merci by Sir Frank Dicksee
Interesting choice.
Arts(Paintings)are my hobby from childhood, I love
Everything in the world even bugs and paintings.
My favourite is the culture of India, something about
Cultural festival and images on temples the famous to message to add together in the world.
My favorite from this list is the Mona Lisa because it most clearly depicts the essence of woman – how she can be deep in thought yet not betray anything but calm tranquility on the surface. Makes one wonder at her strength.
Great pieces of work, unfortunately Black Artists, Caribbean Paintings, Paintings of India and Africa are not represented.
Painting is something that the mind should feel happy about. Good energy should come.
Great collection. I haven’t seen the “Old musician” by Picasso before. He is a genius, so use of color. My first thing was “The only alive here is the guitare”, second one followed: “Ars longa, vita brevis est”.
Nice but the paitings are reality and not imagination
I like the one with Elvis the king and dolphins on velveteen too the best one
Actually “Starry Night” is only one of a number of paintings by Van Gogh on the subject.One hangs in the Musee d’orsay in Paris. Its title is Starry night over the Rhone and I much prefer it to the one That hangs in Museum of Modern Art .
You might also check what Blue Poles is worth . The Australian Government bought it back in the 1970’s for a World record price of $1.3 million many moons ago and it may not have cost them $140.million but I am sure it is worth much more than that lets say $350-400 million ?
all the drawings are beatyful and hard to draw.also theres some drawing I know is fameouse when I was little.so when I was little it look like it a hard work to do and it gave me the idea that it was famouse.
Three brilliant female artists:
The Dance – painting by Paula Rego.
Self Portrait – painting by Suzanne Valadon.
A Little Night Music – painting by Dorothea Tanning.
Not even one of them included!
Nevertheless, I enjoyed your selection of male artists work, and have always thought that the expressions on the faces of the Mona Lisa, and The Girl With A Pearl Earring both show a particularly high degree of female intelligence. I think they are both just saying non-verbally…please don’t underestimate me! My personal opinion only. Delia Marheineke.
Where’s the great waves of kangawa?
No idea
Why do you say 35 then list 45 and then not show 5 of them?
The one I like most is the scream by Munch. I have had in gallery for about 2 years but every time I look at it, it evokes a certain emotion, can actually hear the shrill of nature screaming.