Examples of Great Visual Artists and Their Work
The best place to get information about visual artists, whether contemporary or from other periods, is to visit a museum or an art gallery. Art galleries, at least in cities like New York, are usually free. Books and websites can also give information about visual artists.
Some of the best visual artists are the Brussels-born Ren Magritte, who puzzled and enthralled viewers with his precise and surrealistic paintings of impossible situations. Another is the “primitive” French painter Henri Rousseau, his canvasses full of huge flowers and tropical plants and animals with human expressions on their faces. Jean Louis Ingres painted gods, goddesses, odalisques and French society ladies with such realism the viewer wishes to reach out and touch their flesh, or the fabric of their sumptuous dresses, while the recently deceased Lucien Freud made his subjects, including Queen Elizabeth II, both monumental and repulsive.
Monet, another Frenchman, was famous for his impressionistic paintings of a cathedral captured at different hours of the day, and his lush, sometimes wall sized paintings of the water lilies at his famous garden at Giverny. The Spanish painter Goya was fearless in plunging into the depths of psychological horror. And of course, there are many many others!
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