A brief description for some of the most important visual artists in the world which gave the biggest contributions to the concept of art today.

1. By Mr. Elvin Herrera
Frida Kahlo
Greatest Painters in History
Frida Kahlo – Salvador Dalí
Rufino Tamayo – Pablo Picasso
Vicent Van Gogh - Michelangelo
Frida Kahlo de Rivera was a Mexican artist best known
for her self-portraits. Her paintings are strongly
influenced by Mexican folk culture, and use lots of
bright colours and dramatic symbolism.
She was born in July 6, 1907 in Coyoacán, Mexico.
She created one hundred and forty three paintings, and
of these, fifty-five are self-portraits.
Roots
Viva La Vida-Watermelons
Some of the most Frida
Kahlo´s paintings are:
'Self
Portrait
with
Monkey',
1938
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2. Salvador Dalí
Salvador Dali was a surrealist artist which made
paintings, sculptures and films about the dreams he
had.
He was famous
Salvador Dali was born in Figueres, Spain
on May 11, 1904.
for his long curly
He painted melting clocks and floating
eyes, clouds that look like faces and
rocks that look like bodies.
Sounds weird right?
Think about what your paintings would look like
if you painted your dreams?
I bet they would be pretty weird too!
Dalí was involved with surrealism. This was an
art movement where painters made dream-like
scenes and showed situations that would be
bizarre or impossible in real life.
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3. Some of the most Salvador Dalí´s paintings are:
The Persistence of Memory
Rose Medidative
The Ghost of Vermeer
Dalí was a man of many
talents and he is still seen
as a great artist who
influences many artists
today!
Rufino Tamayo
He was a Mexican artist, best known for
his use of vivid colors and his blending of
abstract forms and pre-Columbian styles.
In 1974 he donated his large
collection of pre-Columbian art to the
city of Oaxaca, founding the Rufino
Tamayo Museum of Pre-Hispanic Art
Some of the famous paintings from Rufino Tamayo are:
Watermelons Moon Dog Day and Night (Mural)
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Pablo Picasso
Picasso was born in Malaga, Spain in 1881. He
was a Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker,
ceramicist and stage designer considered one
of the greatest and most influential artists of
the 20th century.
He is famous for his role
in pioneering Cubism
with Georges Braque and
for his melancholy Blue
Period pieces.
Some of the most famous Pablo Picasso´s artwork is:
Cubism means that the items
represented in the artworks look like
they are made out of cubes and other
geometrical shapes.
The Weeping Woman
The Old Guitarist
Guernica
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5. Vicent Van Gogh
He was a Dutch post-impressionist
painter. His work had a great influence
on modern art because of its striking
colours and emotional power.
In total, Van Gogh made
around 2,100 artworks.
Van Gogh liked to paint the places he visited.
When you look at his paintings, you can almost
imagine you are there with him.
Some important Van Gogh´s artwork is:
The Starry Night The Potato Eaters Sunflowers
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6. Michelangelo
Michelangelo Buonarotti was born in Caprese, Italy on March 6, 1475.
He was very famous because he made important
artworks such as the large statue of David and the
ceiling of the Sistine Chapel.
Well he was and
apparently there are over
300 poems that he wrote.
He was a man of many
talents it seems!
Did you know that I was also
a poet?
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7. References:
https://kids.kiddle.co/
https://kids.britannica.com/kids/article/
https://www.tate.org.uk/kids/explore
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