Painting

Painters and the works that define them.

People in Painting

17 profiles

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Leonardo da Vinci

Painting the Mona Lisa and The Last Supper.

Painter

Frida Kahlo

Painting self-portraits about identity, pain and Mexican life.

Painter

Vincent van Gogh

Painting The Starry Night and Sunflowers.

Artist

Pablo Picasso

Co-developing Cubism and painting Guernica.

Painter

Georgia O'Keeffe

Painting enlarged flowers and the landscapes of New Mexico.

Artist

Salvador Dalí

Painting the melting clocks in The Persistence of Memory.

Painter

Édouard Manet

Painting Olympia and helping bring modern life into French painting.

Painter

Jackson Pollock

Making large abstract paintings by pouring and dripping paint.

Painter

Piet Mondrian

Creating abstract grids of black lines and primary colours.

Artist

Joan Miró

Creating a vivid visual language of floating shapes, stars and dreamlike figures.

Painter

Artemisia Gentileschi

Painting forceful Baroque heroines such as Judith.

Painter

Gustav Klimt

Painting The Kiss in a richly patterned field of gold.

Painter

Rembrandt

Painting The Night Watch and searching, lifelong self-portraits.

Artist

Edgar Degas

Depicting ballet dancers at work and rest.

Painter

Bob Ross

Teaching relaxed landscape painting on television through The Joy of Painting.

Painter

Diego Rivera

Painting monumental murals that put workers and Mexican history on public walls.

Painter

Henri Matisse

Transforming modern art through bold colour, simplified forms and late paper cut-outs.