Top 10 Most Popular Artists and Their Masterpieces of All the Time

The list in this article we gave composes of the seven most popular artists on HandmadePiece Art Store and the other three best-loved modern artists we selected as well as one of their most influential artworks. We aim to give more general knowledge to art lovers from this kind of art articles.

 

1. Vincent van Gogh

Vincent van Gogh, a brilliant and tormented artist, was one of the greatest exponents of the 20th-century art.

The famous Starry Night is a painting made in the second half of the nineteenth century during his period of hospitalization in an asylum. The vortex and circular brushstrokes that appear evident to the viewer are the results of a particular pictorial technique. The colors spread in a fluid way to small sections close to each other in which the base of the canvas can be seen. We can sense this flickering effect that reflects the tormented mood of Van Gogh through a symbolic meaning.

 

2. Claude Monet

Claude Monet was one of the highest representatives of the artistic movement called Impressionism and the famous work of 1874 called Impression, Sunrise was the moment of the birth of the campaign.

The artist does not create shadows, but somewhat whole areas of color in which light becomes the absolute protagonist of each of his paintings. In this painting, you can see the harbor view at dawn, and the sun stands out in the middle of a landscape where you can not see contours and volumes, but many shades of color that make the painting bright and luminous. Monet also reflects its poetic nature through direct contact with nature.

 

3. Pierre Auguste Renoir

Auguste Renoir was one of the greatest exponents of Impressionism, and his works are full of the optimism and energy of the bohemian Parisian life of the late nineteenth century. The famous painting Dance at the Moulin de la Galette is an oil on canvas made in 1876 and represents a masterpiece of Impressionism. We note the almost total absence of the design and the shapes was created through colors. Even Renoir, Impressionist artists like others, did not use the shadows and the blacks colors. Furthermore, we can see a certain dynamism in which the figures seem to almost move on the surface of the canvas.

 

4. Gustav Klimt

Gustav Klimt was one of the most important artists of the Viennese Secession. His works are exquisite and characterized by the use of gold that gives a particular brilliance. Klimt's paintings have the power to influence contemporary art to this day and have become an indispensable source of inspiration for everyday life.

The Kiss, one of Klimt's most famous works, reflects the Liberty style and was made in the early twentieth century. The gold color stands out in the background and is characterized by rectangular geometric shapes as if they were pieces of mosaic on a sort of mantle that covers the man while the woman is covered with circular shapes without edges.

 

5. Edgar Degas

Edgar Degas was a French painter of Impressionism and worldwide recognized as the artist who depicts dancers, subjects that often appear in his works. His paintings represent a decadent Paris, but at the same time elegant and romantic. Unlike his colleagues, Degas did not like to paint natural landscapes. In fact, his paintings depict mostly closed environments of urban life from the particular photographic cut.

The magnum opus The Dance Class is one of his most famous oil painting with the subject of ballerinas. This painting depicts the scene Jules Perrot, the renowned ballet master, is teaching ballet in the class.

 

6. Wassily Kandinsky

Wassily Kandinsky was the one who founded the abstract art based on experimenting with new art forms that went against the figurative art and to reality.

In this way, the artist gave the life to a new way of expressing oneself in which each color is associated with an emotional state. Also, every nuance is also linked to a precise sound, creating a close connection between art and music.

Composition VIII is a fundamental work of geometric abstractionism. In fact, the artwork is characterized by stiffer lines than its previous paintings, and we notice a series of squares, triangles, and circles.

 

7. Edvard Munch

Edvard Munch was one of the greatest exponents of Expressionism and represented an essential role in twentieth-century art.

The Scream, his most famous work of 1893, has become the symbol of a tormented and depressed society. That face full of anguish has given power to this painting, giving it immortality and reflects the emotional state of the artist after some tragic events of his life. There are four versions made with paint and pastels on cardboard with the dimensions.

 

8. Pablo Picasso

Pablo Picasso was a Spanish painter and sculptor known throughout the world and is one of the leading figures of 20th-century art.

This artist is recognized for his versatility passing, in the course of his professional life, from cubist art to Classicism and African art.

Created at the beginning of 20th century, The Young Ladies of Avignon is one of the most famous paintings of his cubist phase. The picture depicts five prostitutes, and we notice the angular bodies that move away from the figurative art since there is no longer a single point of view. Women have a deformed face, and it almost seems that they wear masks of African culture and a series of geometric shapes represent all.

 

9. Jackson Pollock

Jackson Pollock was one of the leading exponents of abstract expressionism or so-called action painting. The works of this artist have always divided the criticism and Pollock has given life to new ways of interpreting not only what we observe on the canvas, but all the phases of creation of the artist. The most famous paintings were made between 1947 and 1950 with the pictorial technique of dripping, such as the painting Number 3.

This technique consists in making the paint drip on a canvas or a floor lying on the floor through the use of brushes and rigid sticks. Sometimes the color was also sprayed and thrown.

 

10. Salvador Dalí

Salvador Dalí was a complete artist and one of the most important figures of the twentieth century not only for his artistic contribution but also for his being an extravagant character above any convention. He was an eccentric and eclectic man because not only did he paint, but he also devoted himself to sculpture, writing, photography, and cinema.

Dali is mostly a surrealist art and his most famous painting The Persistence of Memory of 1931 expresses the dilated sensation of time through a dissolution of the watches as if they were about to melt.