Things you didn’t know about these 5 Famous Artists

In a sea of modern artwork and paintings, that bedazzle you with their sheer magnificence and finesse, there are only a few names that stick with us. Top famous artists are the ones that create unparallel magic on canvas and these best artists continue to remain in our mind and memories because not only their work speaks for them but their life story is nothing short of an intriguing novel. Today we tell you about 5 top artists and things you might not have known about them:

1.  Vincent Van Gogh

Known as the insane genius behind the ‘Starry Night’ painting, Vincent Van Gogh was a Dutch painter, who in the span of a decade, produced nearly 2100 paintings. By his remarkable control of brushstrokes and the use of bright colors, Vincent Van Gogh art was considered to lay the foundations for modern painting. Even after creating thousands of paintings in his lifetime, it was only after he committed suicide that the Vincent Van Gogh painting came to the fore; this was soon after he recovered from a long bout of mental illness in 1890. 

2. Paul Gauguin

Meet Paul Gauguin, the dear friend of the genius Vincent Van Gogh; Paul was trained to be more than a painter — a novelist, sculptor, ceramist, and even a printmaker. Paul Gauguin art was known for its Synthetist and Symbolist style. But his staple work only began after his exile in French Polynesia; these were known as the typical Paul Gauguin painting with Tahitian themes. They portrayed Tahitian women, Tahitian culture, and oceanic iconography.

3.  Michelangelo

We introduce to you Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti, mainly a sculptor but also a painter who created magic with his fingers everywhere he went. He is considered to have a significant influence on Western art, as an Italian painter, sculptor, and architect. The dome of the Sistine Chapel is decorated by his most famous painting, and his flawless sculptors of Pietà and David are easily the most identifiable sculptures. And interestingly, this made him the most documented artist of the 16th century!

4. Henri Rousseau

 Henri Rousseau was a lover of green leaves, tropical jungles, and animals. Someone with remarkable imagination, he was a self-educated French post-impressionist. A lot of the Henri Rousseau painting was mocked by the critics for what seemed to be childlike work but the likes of artists like Pablo Picasso were fascinated by Henri Rousseau art which was Naïve and Primitive in style. The most interesting fact about him was that he only began to paint at the age of 40 and learned to paint his jungle themes without ever visiting the jungle itself!

5. Georges Seurat

Georges Seurat is known to be the person behind the Pointillist technique; his paintings are made up of nothing but colorful strokes of lines and dots and the very technique came to be known as Pointilism. His work would make the painting look extra vibrant and flawlessly blended. All of his work can be rightly justified by just one painting titled ‘Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte’. This humongous painting was completed in two years but did you know that he made 30 rough oil sketches before actually starting the main painting? And this painting was believed to be the mirror painting of ‘Bathers at Asnières’, also created by Seurat.