50 masterpieces of painting, which have to know every educated person
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By Pictolic https://pictolic.com/article/50-masterpieces-of-painting-which-have-to-know-every-educated-person.htmlOnce art was a privilege of the elite, but today anyone can visit the Museum or concert hall, to enjoy the great works of the past. The modern man who wants to be considered educated, should be a little versed in these issues and be able to distinguish a Manet from a Monet, for example.
No one says be sure to read all the works of authors who are considered great, but know the most important works still stands. At least this is very useful for the overall development. Therefore, we decided to collect the most famous paintings ever written by man.
Leonardo da Vinci, the "Mona Lisa"
Raphael, The Sistine Madonna
Hieronymus Bosch, "the Garden of earthly delights"
Diego Velazquez, "Las Meninas"
Eugène Delacroix, "Liberty leading the people"
Mikhail Vrubel, "Demon sitting"
Grant wood, "American Gothic"
René Magritte, Son of man
Salvador Dali, "the Persistence of memory"
Ivan Aivazovsky "the Ninth wave"
Pieter Bruegel, the "tower of Babel"
Leonardo da Vinci "the last supper"
Edouard Manet, "a Bar at the "Folies bergère""
Edgar Degas, Blue dancers
Rembrandt, Night watch
Edvard Munch, "The Scream"
Jacques-Louis David, "The Death Of Marat"
Vincent van Gogh, "Starry night"
Viktor Vasnetsov, "Heroes"
Jackson Pollock, No. 5
Sandro Botticelli's "Birth Of Venus"
Andrey Rublev, "The Trinity"
Vasily Vereshchagin "the Apotheosis of war"
Jan Vermeer, "girl with a pearl earring"
Katsushika Hokusai, "the Great wave in Kanagawa"
Karl Bryullov "the Last days of Pompeii"
James Whistler, "Arrangement in grey and black. The artist's mother"
Claude Monet, "Impression. Rising sun"
Ilya Repin, "burlaki on the Volga"
Valentin Serov, "Girl with peaches"
Pablo Picasso "Girl on a ball"
Henri Matisse, "Dance"
Kazimir Malevich, "white on White"
Michelangelo Buonarroti, "The Creation Of Adam"
Caravaggio, "The Beheading Of John The Baptist"
Jean-Honore Fragonard "The Swing"
Gustave Courbet, "The Desperate. Self portrait"
Karl Bryullov, "Rider"
Pierre Auguste Renoir, "luncheon of the boating party"
Marc Chagall, "Over the city"
Pieter Bruegel, "the Flemish proverb"
Pablo Picasso, "Guernica"
Gustav Klimt, "The Kiss"
Peter Paul Rubens, "the rape of the daughters of Leucippus"
Paul Gauguin, "Where do we come from? Who are we? Where are we going?"
William Blake, "the Great architect"
Titian, "the earthly Love and heavenly Love"
Giuseppe Arcimboldo, "Portrait of Emperor Rudolf II as Vertumnus way"
Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin "bathing of a red horse"
Wassily Kandinsky, "Composition VII"
Keywords: Painting | Art | Paintings | Masterpieces
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