Painting is an action or skill of using paint, either in a picture or as decoration. Some of the paintings are very expensive. Normally old paintings are much expensive. There are thousands of the people are fans of old painting in all around the world.
Following are the top 10 most famous painting in the world
10. Birth of Venus
Birth of Venus is painted by Sandro Borricelli. This most famous painting is painted during 1484 to 1486. Birth of Venus (painting) show that Venus coming out of the sea for the first time as a beautiful young woman. The central figure of Venus in the painting is very similar to Praxiteles sculpture of Aphrodite. In this version of her birth she raises from the sea already a fully grown woman.
9. Water Lilies
Water Lilies were displayed in the various museums in all around the world. This painting is a group of more than 250 oil paintings. Water Lilies were painted by French Impressionist Claude Monet. The paintings depict Monet’s flower garden at Giverny and were the main focus of Monet’s artistic production during the last thirty years of his life. Many of the works were painted while Monet suffered from cataracts.
8. Night Watch
The Night watch is painted in 1642. Rembrandt Van was the painter of this famous painting. Night Watch was painted during the peak period of the Dutch Golden days. There are thousands of the people are fans of this famous painting in all around the world. The (Night Watch) painting is well-known for 3 characteristics.
- Its colossal size (363 cm × 437 cm (11.91 ft × 14.34 ft)).
- The effective use of light and shadow.
- The perception of motion in what would have traditionally been a static military portrait.
7. The Scream
The Scream is the popular name given to each of four versions of a composition, created as both paintings and pastels, by the Expressionist artist Edvard Munch between 1893 and 1910. The fourth version (pastel, 1895) was sold for $119,922,600 at Sotheby’s Impressionist and Modern Art auction on 2 May 2012 to financier Leon Black. The second highest nominal price paid for a painting at auction. The painting was on display in the Museum of Modern Art in New York from October 2012 to April 2013.
6. Girl with a Pearl Earring
The painting Girl with a Pearl Earring is one of Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer’s masterworks and as the name implies, uses a pearl earring for a focal point. Girl with a Pearl Earring is painted in 1665. The painting was exhibited in Japan at the National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, and in 2013-2014 the United States.
5. Guernica
Guernica shows the tragedies of war and the suffering it inflicts upon individuals, particularly innocent civilians. Guernica is a painting by Pablo Picasso. Guernica was created in response to the bombing of Guernica, a Basque Country village in northern Spain, by German and Italian warplanes at the behest of the Spanish Nationalist forces on 26 April 1937 during the Spanish Civil War. Guernica was displayed around the world in a brief tour, becoming famous and widely acclaimed.
4. The Persistence of Memory
The Persistence of Memory is a 1931 painting by artist Salvador Dali, and is one of his most recognizable works. This work of art is known to make people ponder on their way of life and the way they spend their time. The Persistence of Memory (Painting) is widely recognized and frequently referenced in popular culture. The painting has been in the collected works of the Museum of Modern Art in New York City since 1934 which received it from a nameless donor.
3. The Last Supper
The painting represents the scene of The Last Supper of Jesus with his disciples, as it is told in the Gospel of John. The Last Supper is a late 15th-century mural painting by Leonardo da Vinci in the refectory of the Convent of Santa Maria delle Grazie, Milan. It is one of the world’s most famous paintings, and one of the most studied, scrutinized, and satirized. The Last Supper measures 460 cm × 880 cm and covers an end wall of the dining hall at the monastery of Santa Maria delle Grazie in Milan, Italy.
2. The Starry Night
The Starry Night is a painting by the Dutch post-impressionist artist Vincent van Gogh. Painted in June 1889, it depicts the view outside of his sanatorium room window at Saint-Remy-de-Provence (located in southern France) at night, although it was painted from memory during the day. The painting is among Van Gogh’s best-known works and marks a decisive turn towards greater imaginative freedom in his art.
1. Mona Lisa
Leonardo da Vinci began painting the Mona Lisa in 1503 or 1504 in Florence, Italy. The Mona Lisa is a half-length portrait of a woman by the Italian artist Leonardo da Vinci, which has been acclaimed as “the best known, the most visited, the most written about, most sung about, the most parodied work of art in the world”. The painting’s fame was emphasized when it was stolen on 21 August 1911. Louvre employee Vincenzo Peruggia had stolen it by entering the building during regular hours. Peruggia was an Italian patriot who believed Leonardo’s painting should be returned to Italy for display in an Italian museum.
Top 10 Most Famous Paintings In The World
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