Vicent Van gogh

Vincent van Gogh – A biography of an artist

Vicent van Gogh was born in 1853 in Netherlands He was a famous post-impressionist painter whose work is notable for its beauty , color and emotion.

Van Gogh went to school irregulary sharped because his parents his parents took him to different boarding . He left school when he is 15 years . In his latest boarding he started having hobby of painting. The said that his life is cool , bad and vain . He is famous now because in that moment his brother Theo helped . He suffered a mental illness that led him to cut an ear.

His main achievements were when he had died . He started to have influence in an exhibition in París , followed by several exhibition in Amsterdam , New York and Berlín.

He died in 1890. He was recognized as one of the most important painters of the history.Several of Van Gogh's paintings are among the most expensive paintings in the world

Claude Monet

Oscar-Claude Monet was born in 1840 in Paris, was one of the founders of impressionist painting. The term Impressionism is derived from the title of his work Impression, Sunrise created in 1872.

Between 1851 and 1857 Claude Monet attended high school in Le Havre where he was taught drawing by Jacques-François Ochard. He did not like school discipline and preferred to be on the cliff or by the sea. During his lectures drew caricatures of his teachers and other students who were exposed in the window of the only merchant picture frames from Le Havre. At the age of 15 years Monet was known as a cartoonist in the city and received orders for which charged up to 20 francs.


His early works, up to half of the 1860s, are realistic style. Monet managed to expose some of these works in the Hall of París.En the 1870s was part of the Impressionist exhibitions, his work Impression, Sunrise was part of the 1874 Salon des Refuses.


Monet died in 1926, now is recognized one of the founders of impressionist painting.

Vicent van Gogh

Vicent van Gogh was a painter neerlanes who was born in 1853. From a very young was interested in drawing. His first job was in an art gallery.

In his youth he began working as a pastor and then went as a missionary when he was 26 years old. In those moments he began to draw people from that place.

There he painted his first major work the ``potato eaters´´. The quality of his work was only recognised after his death.

After suffering frequent bouts of mental illness throughout his life, led him to suicide in 1890. It had a great influence on the art of the 20th century.

Joan Miró i Ferrà

Joan Miró i Ferrà (April 20, 1893 – December 25, 1983) was a Spanish painter, sculptor, and ceramicist born in Barcelona. 

Miró initially went to business school as well as art school. He began his working career when he was a teenager as a clerk, but he abandoned the business world completely for art . His early art, was inspired by Vincent Van Gogh and Paul Cézanne. 

Some of his works are  Head of a Catalan Peasant ,Catalan Landscape (The Hunter), The Happiness of Loving My Brunette. The most famous is The Farm, that shows  the farmhouse owned by his family in the town of Mont-roig del Camp. Miró describes it as "a summary of my entire life in the countryside" and "the summary of one period of my work, but also the point of departure for what was to follow."

He  is famous for its murals, ceramic sculpture and theater decorations and beacause is one of the most representatives figure of surrealism. 

Salvador Dalí

Salvador Felipe Jacinto Dali was born in the Catalan town of Figueras, Spain, on May 11, 1904. He soon showed skills for drawing, and his father, a notary, sent to Madrid to study at the School of Fine Arts of San Fernando, for removal if years later. His early works, such as "Girl at the Window", were within a naturalistic and detailed that produced an ambiguous sense of unreality, which accentuate later.

In 1928, driven by the Catalan painter Joan Miró moved to Paris and joined the Surrealist movement, however, with its exhibition of 1933 met international fame. It was then that he began to lead a full social life and eccentricities povocaciones. This attitude was seen by some as a way to market his paintings and coupled with his lack of political stance, leading to his expulsion from the Surrealist group. During this period implemented its "method of interpretation paranoiac-critical", based on the theories of psychoanalysis, delirious and dreamlike elements associating a realistic pictorial language.

During World War II, he settled in the United States, close to Hollywood, where he worked with some movies. In the late 1940s regrsó to Spain and began a mystical phase compositions from famous as "The Last Supper" on the work of Italian, Leonardo da Vinci. Subsequently alternated painting with jewelry design and book illustration. Meanwhile, the anthology exhibition of his work took place (New York, 1966, Paris, 1979, Madrid, 1982), and, as his public speeches were declining, the controversy gave way to a renewed interest in his painting.

In 1974 it opened in Figueras, his hometown, the Dali Museum. Eight years later he died Gala, his muse, which decrease its activity did artístca.Salvador Dalí was with Pablo Picasso and Joan Miro, one of the great representatives of twentieth-century Spanish painting.

Salvador Dalí

-Salvador Dalí-

Salvador Dalí was born in 1904 in Gerona. By the years he became an internationally popular painter, very famous because he started with the cubism ( way of painting that later will be used by others painters like Federico García Lorca, Pepin Bello...)
In general all his paintings were influenced by many artistic styles from the Classic to the Vanguards, even his paintings are characterized by mixing a lot of styles when he painted.



Dali´s early live was generally marked by bad luck. In 1926 Dalí was expelled from the academy where he studied, and he had to go to Paris where he met Pablo Picasso who was a great friend from him, a few months later he met Elena a girl who fell in love, this will create a lot of  problems with his father who try to opposed  this romance.
During this time he decided to join a new style of painting "the surrealism" and it was with this style when Dalí painted his most famous works in 1931, but when the 2nd world War was revaging Europe he escape to New york where he let the paintings aside and he did other things like writing a novel or desing pictures in books...



Later, when some problems are solved he return to Paris because an exposition of his paintings has revolutionized France and this was the key to his later sucess, by this period he lets fly his imagination, creating optical ilusions who makes everyone stunned.



Dali´s later life was a period of pain because he consumed drugs, that makes him losing artistic ability, after that his wife died, that made Dalí lost the will to live.
In 1989 he died because of numerous problems, in general he was one of the most succesful man painters of the 20th century. Actually all the world knows him for his work and his talent.

Diego Velázquez

Diego Velázquez was born in Seville in 1599 and he died in Madrid in 1660. He was a Baroque painter, considered one of the best painters of Spain and universal master of painting.

He spent his first steps in Seville, and at age 24 he went to Madrid where he was appointed painter to King Philip IV and four years later he was promoted to painter. He dedicated the rest of his life painting portraits of the king and his family.

He painted great works like "La rendición de Breda". This period opened with "Retrato del papa Inocencio X" because he owned his last two masterpieces: "Las Meninas" and "Las hilanderas".

It has about 120 works and is considered one of the best painters in history. The majority of his works are in the Prado museum in Madrid.