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Famous Painters: The Top 3 Most Famous Painters of All Time

Our world has been blessed with the genius and talent of so many gifted artists that have given us the incredible master pieces that have motivated and inspired, not just an era, but for so long after their brushes have laid their final strokes. As it is true that beauty is in the eye of the beholder, it would be impossible to select just a few and present them as the best without attracting fierce debate, of which there could not ever be a winner.

Here I have compiled a short reference to present the top 3 most famous painters of all time.

Leonardo Da Vinci (1452-1519)- Renaissance It is without debate that the number 1 spot belongs to no other than Leonardo Da Vinci. Often referred to as the father of Renaissance, and a master of perspective, the influence of Leonardo Da Vinci today extends far beyond the realm of artistic endeavor.
Inspired and encouraged by growing up in an environment rich in scholarly flavor, Da Vinci created only six major works in painting. All six of this works are masterpieces of significance. Da Vinci is renowned for his work in such fields as architecture, engineering, natural science mathematics and geometry.
Leonardo became the first painter, architect, and engineer for King Francis 1st in France. It was the King himself at his side on the 2nd of May, 1519 when he died.

Vincent van Gogh - Vincent's Final Moments

A dusty road dissects endless fields of wheat flanked by distant trees. A black bird, startled by the rattling sound of an old paint box, darts into the sky and disappears out of sight. Tall grass and wild flowers sway in the warm breeze that penetrates the bright sunlight of a summer day in the French countryside. The sky is punctuated with wispy clouds that resemble floating brush strokes on a pale blue canvas. At his favorite painting site, Vincent van Gogh quietly sits before a partially finished canvas, dipping and stirring his brush into a rich palette of oils. Today appears not unlike any other day; the morning walk to the fields, painting the landscape before lunch and later capturing the warm afternoon light. However, on this day, Vincent Van Gogh would paint for the last time.

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Uploaded: November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am
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vinci765 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

a genius.

AfroZapper09 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

"The sadness will last forever"-Vincent van Gogh 1853-1890

patousetos (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

such a pitty for a great artist and art itself,rip

HarperLee55 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

Last week, 118 yrs. after his death, I stood before his "Starry Night" at MOMA in NYC, w/a crowd of people from all over the world. Many of us were in tears.Vincent's pain & torment were a steep price to pay for his supernatural sensitivity to the beauty all around him. How grateful all of us should be that he had the strength to leave behind so many sublime & powerful images & words.Vincent van Gogh is eternal. Peace.

3dcg1117 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

Van Gogh was a decent painter, but valazquez and Corbet were the best

imafishgod (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

Thank you for sharing this fine piece of art with us. Peace.

johnmathers (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

Van Gogh cut off only part of his left ear, that being the ear lobe. If you watch the video again you will see that they have addressed this.

vantagestudios (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

What the eff about his ear? Did the film maker totally forget about that part? I thought he lopped off an ear as a gift to a prostitute. Hardly a detail one should overlook -- particularly when trying to convey the extent of his sadness.

Kikaki79 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

...Artists have and will always have a filtered vision of the world around them, a world which fits all of us but we are not ready to cross over into that world. Because artists are different, crazy, weird, from our point of view and we can never bring ourselves on the brink of our own passions so as to understand what it means to create and "burn" for your work. In every sense...I wish I was an artist better burn creating than supressing your creativity through everyday nothingness...

Kikaki79 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

Van Gogh is trully for me the most exceptional artist in ways that I can't describe. His works move me. But artists in all societies I think have to face the scepticism of their fellow citizens. They are mostly marked as "non-productive". What they do is beautiful but meaningless. Or so they think. My mother is an artist and in all her years nobody except her fellow artists understood her and the meaning of her work for her own life. Art for an artist is like breathing, essential, vital...

Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890)- Impressionist The works of Vincent Van Gogh are perhaps the most easily recognized and remembered of any artist, famous or not. Although he often created his master pieces with everyday objects, such as sunflowers and an empty chair, his art is intensely emotional.
Vincent Van Gogh was born the son of a pastor and grew up in a cultured and religious atmosphere. He first worked in a book store and as an art salesman before becoming a preacher for which he was latter dismissed for being overzealous. In 1880, he turned to the study of art with the determination to give joy by creating beauty.
Van Gogh suffered severe bouts of depression and has been described as a "difficult companion", an understated comment when considering that during one of his "difficult" episodes he attempted to attack his closest friend and peer, Gauguin, with a razor. The attack was successfully defended but Van Gogh then famously cut off a part of his own ear.
Van Gogh's depression and tantrums worsened and he began to suffer fits of madness and was admitted to an asylum.
In 1890, two months after his release from the asylum Vincent Van Gogh died by suicide, only ever having sold one painting. Over 200 years after his death, or deeply tragic life, the works of Vincent Van Gogh are immortal.

Salvador Dali- (1904-1989)- Surrealism The paintings of Salvador Dali depict strange hallucinatory characters of burning giraffes and seemingly melted wax watches. Dali described his own works as "hand-painted dream photographs". Dali is famous for his many talents apart from painting, sculpture, jewelry design, book illustration as well as theatre work, making the first ever surrealistic film, "Un chien andalou" in 1929 and even writing a novel, "Hidden Faces" in 1944.
Although Dali is best known as representing the surrealist movement, he skillfully developed his own deviation which he named "critical paranoia". Dali's theory supporting critical paranoia is that one should cultivate delusion while awareness and will suspended in thought.
If the sum of a man is his character, one would still be confused as to who Salvador Dali was. He cannot possibly be described in few short paragraphs. Just when you think you can understand him in nature there emerges one more perspective.

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