While listing top artists of the world, I had to keep in mind different criteria for judgment used by art connoisseurs all around the world. It was a bit difficult to keep aside my personal opinion and provide you with an unbiased list of artists in the world. However I am happy with the results produced with my core research on the same.
Here is the list of top 10 artists in the world.
Leonardo Da Vinci (1452-1519) - This Italian was one of the greatest renaissance artists of all time. His range of talents spanned that of a painter, scientist, architect, inventor, sculptor, and engineer. Although his painting work is not as prolific as that of any other great painter, whatever of it survives today is every one of it a masterpiece.
His most famous paintings are The Last Supper and Mona Lisa. His painting style initially mirrored that of Verrocchio, his teacher, but later on he moved away from rigid to more evocative compositions. His paintings are known for wide-ranging stylistic innovations.
Michelangelo (1475-1564) - This Italian prodigy was more famous as a sculptor, poet, and architect than as a painter. He devoted considerable amount of time to his prodigious talents in sculpting the great masterpieces The David and The Pieta. He never much liked painting.
Even so The Last Judgment and the Genesis are two of his most influential and famous frescoes on the wall and ceiling respectively of the Sistine Chapel in The Vatican. He developed the Mannerism style of painting. He produced sketches and drawings of all types. His style of painting reflected great imagination and exaggeration of form. He is known for meticulous surface rendering and wildly creative hairstyles given to his subjects.
Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640) - A native of Flanders in Netherlands, this Flemish painter is known for the Baroque style of painting. His most famous works are the Massacre of the Innocents and The Raising of the Cross.
Diego Velasquez (1599-1660) - A native of Spain, this individualistic painter is a contemporary of the Baroque style of painting. His most famous painting is the Las Merinas, followed by Saint Ruffina. He was one of the most widely respected portrait artists. He had a great influence on later painters, chiefly Picasso and Dali. His paintings use a skillful combination of light and shadows.
Rembrandt (1606-1669) - This Dutch etcher and Baroque style painter is considered one of the greatest exponents of all time. He was also known as a printmaker. He painted a total of 300 creations, the most famous of which include Nightwatch, The Blinding of Samson, The Syndics, The Anatomy Lesson, and Chiaroscuro.
Joseph Turner (1775-1851) - He is known as the painter of light and as the creator of atmospheric effects. An Englishman, he is known for having laid the foundation of the Impressionism style of painting. He developed landscape painting to an art form. He was as proficient in watercolors as he was in oils. His most famous works include Snow Storm: Steamboat off a Harbor’s Mouth and Rain, Steam, and Speed.
The list of all-time great artists includes the post-Impressionist Vincent Van Gogh (1853-1890), the Impressionist Claude Monet (1840-1926), and Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) the Cubism stylist. The three of them were prolific artists.
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