Famous Visual Arts Paintings

Famous Visual Arts Paintings. This groundbreaking work set a new precedent for how the horrors of war were depicted in art. The Big Picture offers an approachable and accessible overview of contemporary art since the millennium through just 10 works by 10 artists.

This list comprises works by a great many famed artists that are now housed in the some of the worlds finest museums. He was to live in South Africa from 1946 and his famous Chinese Girl is one of the best selling prints of the twentieth century. It is believed that he has painted rainy day scenery only once.

Painting with tempera on canvas rather than the more conventional wood panels used like the Mona Lisa showed a break away from traditional materials that were becoming popular at the time.

Drawn from the fields of photography painting performance sculpture installation video film and public art the works selected range widelyfrom Andreas Gurskys large-scale color photograph of the Rhine to Ai Weiweis installation of childrens. It can be viewed at the National Archaeological Museum in Naples. The work is revered as a great treasure of the Renaissance depicting a nude at the center of the painting. Mona Lisa and The Last Supper which is the only surviving fresco of Leonardo da Vinci.