Artist & Art USA edition

	Famous Paintings of Vincent van Gogh, impressionist Claude Monet, Camille Pissarro, Auguste Renoir, Alfred Sisley, Paul Cézanne, Degas and Manet. Famous Romantic artist: J.M.W.Turner, John Constable, Eugene Delacroix. Famous Post impressionist artist Paul Gauguin and Silhouettist John Miers & others Famous Artist
Pablo Picasso, Spanish. 1881 - 1973	Born on October 25th 1881 in Malaga, Spain to Maria Picasso, wife of the artist Jose Ruiz. He decided to take his mothers surname as an artist and qualified for the Academy of Fine Arts, Barcelona. Later he studied at the San Fernando Academy, Madrid.
	J.M.W.Turner The greatest artist and how he paints. Extensive site about Turner his art and history. The painter of light. Joseph Mallord William Turner was born in London, England, on April 23, 1775. His father was a barber. His mother died when he was very young. The boy received little schooling. His father taught him how to read, but this was the extent of his education except for the study of art.
	Vincent van Gogh Post-Impressionist artist how to paint like this great artist, his art, life, portraits and letters. Vincent Willem van Gogh was born on March 30, 1853, in Zundert in the Brabant region of The Netherlands. He was the eldest son of a Protestant clergyman. At the age of 16 Van Gogh was apprenticed to art dealers in The Hague, and he worked for them there and in London and Paris until 1876.
	Impressionist artist French Impressionist painting is currently the most popular of all European bodies of art. Part of the romance of Impressionism comes from the stories of uphill struggles against the famous Academic painters and critics who dominated 19th-century French art, only to be swept into obscurity by the famous artists they had scorned.
	Silhouette art Silhouettist Douglas Carpenter on silhouette art it's history with some fine examples Silhouette took its name, from Louis XV.'s the miserly finance minister, Etienne de Silhouette 1709-1767). Born at Limoges on July 8th, he received as good an education as could then be obtained in a provincial town, studying such books on finance and administration as he could obtain.
	Rembrandt first studied art in his native Leyden and later worked under Pieter Lastman in Amsterdam. Around 1625 he returned to Leyden, but in 1631/32 he settled permanently in Amsterdam. Although he enjoyed a great reputation and pupils flocked to him, he suffered financial difficulties that led to insolvency in 1656.
	Paul Cézanne French painter, often called the father of modern art, who strove to develop an ideal synthesis of naturalistic representation, personal expression, and abstract pictorial order. Among the artists of his time, Cézanne perhaps has had the most profound effect on the art of the 20th century.
	Monet From the age of 60 until his death at age 86, Claude Monet (1840 - 1926) produced an extraordinary body of work. A carefully selected group of more than 80 of these remarkable paintings, now scattered throughout the world, will be brought together for the first time to form Monet in the 20th Century.
	Edgar Degas Born in Paris, Degas entered the École des Beaux-Arts in 1855 to work with Louis Lamothe, one of Ingres’ former pupils. He visited Italy the following year, resettled in Paris - where from 1865 until 1870 he exhibited at the Salon - and in 1872 went to New Orleans to live with relatives for several months.
	Renoir Born in Limoges, Renoir was four when his family moved to Paris. He began his career as a painter of porcelain, but at twenty-one he entered Gleyre’s studio and enrolled at the École des Beaux-Arts. He first showed at the Salon in 1864, and ten years later he took part in the inaugural Impressionist exhibition, which he hung.
	Sir Joshua Reynolds Born at Plympton, Devonshire, Reynolds served a brief apprenticeship under Thomas Hudson in London before launching his career as a portrait painter in Plymouth. Between 1749 and 1752 he was in Italy, where the study of ancient art and the Italian masters profoundly affected his style.
	Eugene Delacroix Delacroix was born on April 26, 1798, at Charenton-Saint Maurice, and he studied under the French painter Pierre Guérin. He was trained in the formal Neo-Classical style of the French painter Jacques-Louis David, but he was strongly influenced by the more colourful, opulent style of such earlier masters as Peter Paul Rubens and Paolo Veronese.
	Claude Lorrain , French painter, who, like Nicolas Poussin was one of the great masters of 17th-century classical landscape painters. Drawing its inspiration from classical antiquity, this school of painting presents nature as harmonious, serene, and often majestic.
	John Constable Constable left his native Suffolk in 1799 to study at the Royal Academy, of which he became an associate in 1819 and a full member only in 1829. His landscapes, which depict chiefly the Suffolk countryside, had a deep influence on his contemporaries, particularly the French.
	Canaletto (Giovanni Antonio Canal) (1697-1768). Venetian painter, he began work painting theatrical scenery - his father's profession, but he turned to topography during a visit to Rome in 1719-20, when he was influenced by the work of Giovanni Paolo Panini.
	Artist Brenda Carpenter watercolour Miniature English artist painter Brenda Carpenter landscape art, flower painting in watercolour. No paintings for sale

	Salvador Dali. 1904 - 1989 One of the greatest painters of the 20th Century Studied as a young man at the San Fernando Academy of Fine Arts in Madrid, and he had his first exhibition of his paintings in Barcelona in 1925. At the age of 25 he became a member of the group of surrealists and also met his future wife Gala and they became very close. Salvador Dali posters Surrealism Transitional