Henri Matisse
(1869-1954)

Artist often regarded as the most important French painter of the 20th century.

The leader of the Fauvist movement around 1900, Matisse pursued the expressiveness of colour throughout his career. His subjects were largely domestic or figurative, and a distinct Mediterranean verve presides in the treatment.

Fra Angelico
(1400-1455)

Fra Angelico was a Dominican friar in the monastery at Fiesole, Italy, Florentine painter, a Dominican friar.

Although in popular tradition he has been seen as not an artist properly so-called but an inspired saint.

Vassily Kandinsky
(1866-1944)

He was one of the most influential artists of his generation.

As one of the first explorers of the principles of nonrepresentational or "pure" abstraction, Kandinsky can be considered an artist who paved the way for abstract expressionism, the dominant school of painting since World War II (1939-1945).

Norman Rockwell
(1894-1978)

Rockwell was probably the most loved and admired American painter for the last 50 years.
He started his career in 1912 when he illustrated a brochure for an American Scouting magazine "Boys' Life". Rockwell also worked with advertising agencies which was more lucrative, though he confessed to preferring the freedom of magazine illustration.

His favorite themes would earn him public favor: infancy and family life, first loves, departures and returns home, childhood and old-age, without forgetting the holidays.

Mark Chagall
(1887-1985)

Russian-born French painter. Born to a humble Jewish family in the ghetto of a large town in White Russia, Chagall passed a childhood steeped in Hasidic culture.

His Slav Expressionism was tinged with the influence of Daumier, Jean-François Millet, the Nabis and the Fauves. He was also influenced by Cubism.

Andy Wahrol
(1928-1987)

Andy Warhol was a very successful commercial illustrator. Warhol's thirty-two soup cans are about nothing of the kind. They are about sameness: same brand, same size, same paint surface, same fame as product. They mimic the condition of mass advertising, out of which his sensibility had grown.