Painters for QR

Leonardo da Vinci

An Italian Renaissance polymath who revolutionized art with works like The Last Supper and Mona Lisa, mastering anatomy, perspective, and sfumato to create lifelike yet mysterious paintings while uniting art with science

Michelangelo

An Italian Renaissance master celebrated for works like The Sistine Chapel Ceiling, whose powerful, muscular figures emphasized the grandeur of the human body and spiritual intensity

Raphael

An Italian Renaissance painter known for harmony and ideal beauty in works like The School of Athens, setting artistic standards despite dying young

Titian

A Venetian Renaissance painter renowned for rich color and oil technique, whose portraits and mythological scenes influenced Baroque painting

Caravaggio

An Italian Baroque painter who pioneered dramatic realism and chiaroscuro, portraying religious scenes with raw emotional intensity

Peter Paul Rubens

A Flemish Baroque painter known for energetic compositions, vivid color, and grand mythological and religious scenes

Rembrandt van Rijn

A Dutch Golden Age painter famous for emotional depth, dramatic lighting, and psychological realism in portraits and biblical scenes

Johannes Vermeer

A Dutch painter celebrated for quiet domestic interiors and masterful light, producing rare yet highly prized works

Diego Velázquez

A Spanish Baroque court painter whose loose brushwork and complex perspective influenced modern painting

Francisco Goya

A Spanish painter bridging classical and modern art, whose works explored war, madness, and political violence

Eugène Delacroix

A French Romantic painter emphasizing emotion, movement, and bold color in dramatic historical scenes

J.M.W. Turner

An English Romantic painter known for atmospheric landscapes that pushed toward abstraction and Impressionism

Caspar David Friedrich

A German Romantic painter whose spiritual landscapes emphasized nature’s power and human insignificance

Édouard Manet

A French painter who challenged academic tradition and bridged Realism and Impressionism, shaping modern art

Claude Monet

A founder of Impressionism who focused on light and atmosphere, often painting the same subject repeatedly

Pierre-Auguste Renoir

A French Impressionist known for joyful scenes, warm color, and celebration of leisure and beauty

Edgar Degas

A French painter who captured movement in modern life, especially ballerinas, blending realism with innovation

Mary Cassatt

An American Impressionist who painted intimate domestic scenes and championed women artists

Vincent van Gogh

A Post-Impressionist whose expressive brushwork and vivid color conveyed deep emotion and inner turmoil

Paul Cézanne

A Post-Impressionist who emphasized structure and form, laying the groundwork for Cubism and modern art

Paul Gauguin

A Post-Impressionist and Symbolist known for bold color, flattened forms, and exotic themes

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

A painter of Paris nightlife whose bold lines and posters shaped modern graphic design

Georges Seurat

A Post-Impressionist who developed pointillism using scientific color theory

Gustav Klimt

An Austrian Symbolist whose decorative, gold-filled works blended sensuality and symbolism

Egon Schiele

An Austrian Expressionist known for raw, emotionally charged figures and unsettling self-portraits

Edvard Munch

A Norwegian Expressionist whose art explored anxiety and death, most famously in The Scream

Henri Matisse

A Fauvist leader who used bold color and simplified forms to express joy and rhythm

Pablo Picasso

A Spanish modernist and co-founder of Cubism whose constant innovation reshaped 20th-century art

Georges Braque

A French painter who co-invented Cubism, redefining perspective and form

Salvador Dalí

A Spanish Surrealist famous for dreamlike imagery and hyperrealistic technique

René Magritte

A Belgian Surrealist who challenged perception with visual paradoxes and symbolic imagery

Marc Chagall

A modernist painter whose dreamlike scenes blended folklore, religion, and fantasy

Diego Rivera

A Mexican muralist who depicted social justice, labor, and national identity in public art

Frida Kahlo

A Mexican painter known for deeply personal self-portraits exploring pain, identity, and culture

Jackson Pollock

An Abstract Expressionist who revolutionized painting with drip techniques emphasizing process

Mark Rothko

An Abstract Expressionist known for large color-field paintings evoking emotion and contemplation

Wassily Kandinsky

A pioneer of abstraction who believed color and form could express spiritual meaning

Piet Mondrian

A De Stijl painter who reduced art to grids and primary colors seeking universal harmony

Andy Warhol

A Pop artist who transformed mass culture and celebrity into fine art

Jan van Eyck

A Northern Renaissance painter who perfected oil painting realism and detail

Albrecht Dürer

A German Renaissance artist known for precise engravings and theoretical writings on art

El Greco

A Mannerist painter whose elongated figures and dramatic color conveyed spiritual intensity

Artemisia Gentileschi

A Baroque painter who portrayed strong biblical women with emotional realism

Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres

A Neoclassical painter emphasizing line, clarity, and idealized form

William Blake

A Romantic artist and poet whose visionary works blended mysticism and symbolism

Grant Wood

An American Regionalist painter best known for American Gothic

Edward Hopper

An American Realist painter whose quiet urban scenes express isolation and modern life

Georgia O’Keeffe

An American modernist known for abstracted flowers and Southwestern landscapes

Hieronymus Bosch

A Northern Renaissance painter known for fantastical, nightmarish scenes like The Garden of Earthly Delights, using symbolism to explore sin, morality, and human folly

Jean-Michel Basquiat

An American Neo-Expressionist painter who combined graffiti, text, and imagery to confront race, identity, and power in raw, energetic works