Category: Artists

Art has been used by humans as a form of expression for hundreds of thousands of years and art itself is even older than language. Before we could speak, we […]

Georgia was born in 1887 in Wisconsin into a family with six siblings.  Her mother was a great encouragement, and Georgia was able to take lessons in watercolour from an […]

Known for both his mental instability and his art, Vincent van Gogh is the greatest Dutch painter after Rembrandt, and although he remained virtually unknown through most of his life, […]

The name Leonardo da Vinci has become synonymous with some of the greatest artistry the world has ever known. There are countless historic retellings of this famous Renaissance artist’s work […]

Michelangelo was a painter, sculptor, architect and a poet.  His full name was Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni born on 6 March 1475 and died 18 February 1564. Michelangelo was […]

Thanks to the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, MoMA, and the Guggenheim, New York is home to one of the largest collections of Impressionist paintings in the world, […]

The Italian Renaissance took place between the 14th and 16th centuries and was a period of significant cultural change across Europe. Artistic masters who displayed an interest in the beauty […]