The Industrial Revolution was a period of major industrialization which began in Great Britain in the mid-18th century and spread to other European countries, including Belgium, France and…

  Modern art is a term used to describe the artworks produced in the period roughly extending from the 1860s to the 1970s. This period saw unparalleled development in the art world and some…

  Romanticism was a movement that dominated all genres; including literature, music, art and architecture; in Europe and the United States in the first half of the 19th century. It originated…

  The early style of America artists was based primarily on English painting. Though several American artists became well known in the 19th century, it was only in the 20th century that the…

  It is difficult to define a short poem. In this article, we have included only those poems which are shorter than a sonnet, or a 14 line poem. We have also excluded some poems based on…

  Samuel Langhorne Clemens (1835 – 1910), known worldwide by his pen name Mark Twain, was an American author renowned worldwide as one of the most influential writers in the English language…

  Love has been a dominant theme in poetry through the ages. One of the early poets whose love poems continue to be popular is John Donne, who was active around early 17th century…

  Early American paintings were primarily portraits, landscapes and depictions of historical events. The first prominent art movement in the United States was Realism, which originated in…

  Graffiti are writing or drawings that have been scribbled, scratched or painted illicitly on a wall or other surface, often within public view. The word graffiti, or its singular form…

  Religious art uses religious themes and motifs usually having some recognizable moral narrative or attempting to induce strong spiritual emotions in the viewer. In the west, religious art…

  Spain has a rich tradition in art and has played a major role in the history of western painting. Spanish Golden Age was a period from the early 16th century to the late 17th century which…

  The Realism art movement originated in France in the 1850s. Led by Gustave Courbet and Jean-François Millet, the Realists rejected the glorification of the past and exaggerated emotionalism…

  The advent of the 20th century saw a revolution in the art world in which artists moved away from representational art, which aimed to represent a depiction of a visual reality; and towards…

  There have been many masterpieces created by French painters over the course of the rich artistic history of their nation. Neoclassicism, which drew inspiration from ancient Greco-Roman…

  Surrealism was a movement, primarily in literature and the visual arts, that flourished in Europe between the First and Second World War. Surrealist artists rejected rationalism and…

  Norman Perceval Rockwell (1894 – 1978) was a 20th-century American author, painter and illustrator who is most famous for his illustrations of everyday life; for capturing the spirit of…

  René François Ghislain Magritte (1898 – 1967) was a Belgian artist most renowned for being one of the leaders of the influential 20th century art movement, Surrealism. Surrealist artists…

  William Shakespeare (1564 – 1616) is widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language. Though he is most renowned for his plays, Shakespeare’s poetry also remains to be…

  Henri Matisse (1869 – 1954) was a French artist who worked in a variety of media including sculpture and paper cut-outs but is most famous for the masterpieces he created as a…

  Active in the nineteenth century, Alfred Lord Tennyson (1809 – 1892) was the leading poet of the Victorian age who remains one of the most renowned poets in the English language and…

  Born Marguerite Annie Johnson, Maya Angelou (1928 – 2014) was an African American writer who is most famous for her poems and seven autobiographies. She was a prolific poet who…

  Edgar Allan Poe (1809 – 1849) was an American writer who is one of the most influential and popular figures of American literature. His poetry is famous for its dark romanticism and…

  Active in the twentieth century, Marc Zakharovich Chagall (1887 – 1985) was a Russian-French artist who worked in a variety of media but is most renowned for his paintings. During his…

  First published in 1925, The Great Gatsby is a novel by American author F. Scott Fitzgerald. It is widely considered as one of the greatest works in English literature and along with Mark…

  Joan Miro was an internationally renowned Spanish Catalan artist of the 20th century who was among the earliest painters involved in the art movement Surrealism. His work is also considered…

  Active during the second half of 19th century and early 20th century, Pierre-Auguste Renoir was a prolific French artist who was among the leading painters of the art movement…

  Doménikos Theotokópoulos, known over the world by his by-name El Greco, was an artist of Greek origin who was active in Spain and was among the leading figures of the Spanish Renaissance of…

  Active during the 16th century, Titian was an Italian artist who is considered among the greatest painters of all time. He was a versatile painter, adept with portraits, landscape…

  Francisco de Goya was a Spanish painter and printmaker who rose to prominence in the artistic scene through his series of tapestry cartoons and became the court painter to the Spanish…

  Georgia O’Keeffe was an American artist who is known for her revolutionary paintings and for being the leading figure of the art movement American Modernism, which started at the turn…

  Considered among the greatest painters of all time, Vincent Van Gogh was a Post-Impressionist artist of Dutch origins. His work, which is notable for its rough beauty, emotional honesty…

  Renaissance was a cultural movement that spanned roughly from the 14th century to the 17th century. It saw some of the greatest artists in the history of mankind including Leonardo Da Vinci…

  There have been many great painters in the rich history of Chinese art from as early as the third century to the modern era. Chinese art is most famous for landscape painting and some of…

  Andy Warhol was an American artist who was the leading figure of the Pop Art movement. Such was his impact that he is called the Pope of Pop Art. The subject of his works varied from iconic…

  Italy has seen some of the greatest painters of all time in its rich artistic history, especially when it was center of European art during the Renaissance. Know about 10 of the most…

  Walt Whitman is considered one of the greatest poets in the English language. His most known works are from his epic collection of poetry Leaves of Grass which was first published in 1855…

  Although artists have been making self-portraits since a long time, dating to ancient Egypt, self-portraiture became an integral part of an artists’ repertoire only after the advent…

  Paul Klee (1879–1940) was a Swiss-German painter who is considered one of the greatest modern artists and is known for his highly individualistic style. His work is associated with many art…

Painting has been the preferred form of artistic expression in Japan and Japanese artists have developed various styles along the years, including the sumi-e (ink wash painting) and ukiyo-e (a…

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