Pablo Picasso

Pablo Picasso (1881-1973 ) was an Andalusian-Spanish painter, draughtsman, and sculptor. As one of the most recognized figures in twentieth-century art, he is best known for co-founding the Cubist movement and for the wide variety of styles embodied in his work. Picasso's work is often categorized into periods. While the names of many of his later periods are debated, the most commonly accepted periods in his work are the Blue Period (1901-1904), the Rose Period (1905-1907), the African-influenced Period (1908-1909), Analytic Cubism (1909-1912), and Synthetic Cubism (1912-1919).

Vincent Van Gogh

Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890 ) was a Dutch Post-Impressionist artist. His paintings and drawings include some of the world's best known, most popular and most expensive pieces. The French Fauves, including Henri Matisse, extended both his use of colour and freedom in applying it, as did German Expressionists.

Claude Monet

Claude Monet (1840-1926 ) was a founder of French impressionist painting, and the most consistent and prolific practitioner of the movement's philosophy of expressing one's perceptions before nature, especially as applied to plein-air landscape painting.[2] The term Impressionism is derived from the title of his painting Impression, Sunrise. His famous home and garden with its waterlily pond is one of the two main attractions of Giverny, which hosts tourists from all over the world.

Henri Matisse

Henri Matisse (1869-1954 ) was a French artist, known for his use of colour and his fluid, brilliant and original draftsmanship. As a draftsman, printmaker, and sculptor, but principally as a painter, Matisse is one of the best-known artists of the 20th century. His mastery of the expressive language of colour and drawing, displayed in a body of work spanning over a half-century, won him recognition as a leading figure in modern art.

Wassily Kandinsky

Wassily Kandinsky (1866-1944 ) was a Russian painter, printmaker and art theorist. One of the most famous 20th-century artists, he is credited with painting the first modern abstract works. Settling in Munich, he taught at the Bauhaus school of art and architecture from 1922 until the Nazis closed it in 1933. He then moved to France where he lived the rest of his life, and became a French citizen in 1939.

Paul Cezanne

Paul Cezanne (1839-1906 ) was a French artist and Post-Impressionist painter whose work laid the foundations of the transition from the 19th century conception of artistic endeavour to a new and radically different world of art in the 20th century. Cezanne can be said to form the bridge between late 19th century Impressionism and the early 20th century's new line of artistic enquiry, Cubism.

Moustafa Farroukh (1901-1957)

Mustafa Farroukh was born in Beirut, Lebanon in 1901. Since his youth, he attended art schools and finally graduated in 1927 from the Royal College of Fine Arts in Rome in the year 1927. He participated in numerous exhibitions.

Diego Rivera

Diego Rivera (1886-1957 ) was a world-famous Mexican painter, an active Communist, and husband of Frida Kahlo, 1929-1939 and 1940-1954 (her death). Rivera's large wall works in fresco helped establish the Mexican Mural Renaissance. Between 1922 and 1953, Rivera painted murals in Mexico City, Chapingo, Cuernavaca, San Francisco, Detroit, and New York City. His 1931 retrospective exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City was their second.

Pierre-Auguste Renoir

Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841-1919 ) was a French artist who was a leading painter in the development of the Impressionist style. As a celebrator of beauty, and especially feminine sensuality, it has been said that "Renoir is the final representative of a tradition which runs directly from Rubens to Watteau".

Kahlil Gibran (1883-1931)

Best known for literary works including The Prophet and Sand and Foam, Kahlil Gibran was also an accomplished visual artist. Born in Besharri, Lebanon, Gibran immigrated with his family to Boston’s South End in 1895. During his teenage years, Gibran’s introduction to publisher and photographer Fred Holland Day proved to be influential. Day exposed Gibran to the art of the pre-Raphaelites and the Aesthetes, as well as to contemporary literary movements. This early exposure had a lasting affect on Gibran, and it would shape his creative works throughout his life. In fact, it was during Gibran’s first public exhibition in Fred Holland Day’s studio that he met Mary Haskell, the woman who would become his most ardent supporter.