Top 10 greatest/famous/influential painters of all time

[The_Eagles]

of course it's subjective but IMO these are locks:

Leonardo Da Vinci
Michaelangelo
Rembrandt
Picasso
Vincent Van Gogh



Close:

Caravaggio
Dali
Monet
Gauguin
Cezanne

 

[quickstraw]

Pickering

 

[harmesy 37]

I would have

Renoir
Picasso
Rembrandt
Van Gogh
Monet
Holbein
Turner
as definites...

Was Leonardo a prolific painter? didn't he spend a lot of time on inventions and studying the human body etc... the mona lisa is great, but you have to consider how prolific they were. I don't think he had an extensive range of paintings, so I didn't include him on my list.

 

[Mario the Lothario]

Ken Done?

 

[Brad Goodman]

Ken Done?

Ken Done good.

Or to be grammatically correct, Ken did well.

 

[drew_j]

Pro Hart.

If it's not done with a cannon, it's not art.

 

[The_Eagles]

I would have

Renoir
Picasso
Rembrandt
Van Gogh
Monet
Holbein
Turner
as definites...

Was Leonardo a prolific painter? didn't he spend a lot of time on inventions and studying the human body etc... the mona lisa is great, but you have to consider how prolific they were. I don't think he had an extensive range of paintings, so I didn't include him on my list.

i thought he was the first to do like proper perspectives and angles of humans and stuff

 

[Rawhead]

What about Dali, Goya and Velazquez

Have to be included.


Hieronymus Bosch for honourable mention.

 

[omit]

Warhol
Basquiat
Haring
duchamp

have all been influential in there own way

 

[Adrian Shelton]

Pickering

You forgot Rolf!!!

 

[Rawhead]

Leonardo Da Vinci
Michaelangelo
Goya
Rembrandt
Picasso
Vincent Van Gogh
Dali
Renoir
Monet
Velazquez


This is the definitive list of the 10 greatest painters of all time.

 

[Aussiekate]

Michelangelo
De Vinci
Dali
Warhol
Monet
Duchamp
Renoir
Van Gogh
Bosch - would get a vote from me too
Picasso
Gaugain

I know its 11 but.. well I choose 11. all revolutionary way before their time types. all profoundly influenced their contemporaries and really thought outside the box.

Great thread too

 

[Rawhead]

No one has any love for Goya?

Surely Goyas 'Black paintings' were revolutionary and incredibly influential to modern art



I baulk at Warhol. Inflential, yes.

 

[The_Eagles]

yeah Goya's thereabouts surely

What I find interesting is the (blurry) line of distinction between the most expensive painting in the world...and then priceless ..who owns museums anyway?

Here are a couple of the most expensive paintings in the world I believe, worth like 150m US