Many famous paintings arranged approximately in
chronological order are presented. How many artists and
paintings can you name? Many were taken from:
http://www.madisonartshop.com/most-famous-paintings.html
The Arnolfini Wedding
Jan van Eyck (1434)
The Birth of Venus Sandro Botticelli (1486)
The Last Supper Leonardo Da Vinci (1495- 1498)
Mona Lisa - Leonardo da Vinci
(1503 -1519)
Michelangelo The Creation of Adam
Sistene Chapel fresco (1512)
De Nachtwacht is most popularly referred to in modern
culture as The Night Watch - Rembrandt (van Rijn) 1640-1642
Johannes Vermeer a Girl with a Pearl
Earring. Completed
circa 1665
The Blue Boy (c. 1770)
is an oil painting by
Thomas Gainsborough
The Third of May (1808) Francisco Goya
Whistler's Mother is the truncated name for James McNeill
Whistler's very famous portrait originally known as
Arrangement in Grey and Black: The Artist's Mother. (1871)
Pierre-Auguste Renoires Bal du Moulin de la Galette (1876)
Georges Seurat - A Sunday Afternoon on the
Island of La Grande Jatte. (1884-1886)
Claude Monet painted a series of 250 pieces known
as Water Lilies between 1840 and 1926
Vincent van Gogh - Starry Night (1889)
Portrait de
L'artiste Sans
Barbe
Although the title
isn't very creative,
Vincent van
Gogh's SelfPortrait without
Beard (1889)
Dancers in Blue
Edgar Degas (1890)
The Card Players by Paul Cézanne (1893)
Mary Cassatt, The Bath (1893)
Edvard Munch,
The Scream,
circa 1893.
C.M. Coolidge painted 16 unforgettable
images of Dogs Playing Poker (1903)
Henri Matisse
Portrait of Madame Matisse
(The green line) (1905)
Pablo Picasso's 1905 oil painting "At the Lapin Agile"
Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I Gustav Klimt (1907)
Gustav Klimt's, The Kiss (1908)
Marc Chagall - The Birthday (1915)
Pablo Picasso's, Three Musicians (1921)
Composition 8
Vasily Kandinsky (1923)
Georgia O’Keefe - Red Poppy
Oil on canvas (1927)
American Gothic, painted by Grant Wood in 1930
Salvador Dali's The Persistence of Memory (1931)
"Cargador de Flores," The Flower Carrier was
painted by Diego Rivera in 1935
Pablo Picasso completed this most
famous piece, Guernica, in 1937
Frida Kahlo, Self-portrait with Thorn
Necklace and Hummingbird (1940)
No. 5, 1948
painted by Jackson Pollock
Woman III by
Willem de Kooning (1953)
Triple Self Portrait, Norman Rockwell (1960)
Andy Warhol - Campbell Soup (1962)
Rene Magrittees
The Son of Man (1964)
Jean-Michel Basquiat , untitled (1981)
Please visit your local art
museums. Hope you enjoyed this
excursion through some of the
world’s most famous paintings.
The purpose of art is washing
the dust of daily life off our
If you hear a voice within you say
souls.
'you cannot paint,' then by all means
Pablo Picasso
paint, and that voice will be silenced.
Vincent Van Gogh
A picture is worth a thousand words.
No great artist ever sees things as
they really are. If he did, he would
cease to be an artist.
Oscar Wilde
An artist is not paid for his
labor but for his vision.
James Whistler
Napoleon Bonaparte
True art is characterized
by an irresistible urge in
the creative artist.
Albert Einstein
Art enables us to find ourselves and
lose ourselves at the same time.
Thomas Merton
The aim of art is to represent not the outward
appearance of things, but their inward significance.
Aristotle