Artists
Famous Paintings
Techniques, Styles, and Mediums
Art Movements
Anything Goes
100

This Italian artist painted the Sistine Chapel ceiling

Michelangelo

100

Famous artwork of Hokusai which depicts depicts three boats moving through a storm-tossed sea, with a large, cresting wave forming a spiral in the center and Mount Fuji visible in the background. This is also considered as the most reproduced artwork of all time.

Great Wave off Kanagawa / Under the Wave off Kanagawa

100

This medium involves creating images by applying pigments mixed with a binder onto a rigid surface, such as canvas or wood.

Painting

100

This mid-19th-century movement focused on depicting everyday life and ordinary people.

Realism

100

A Philippine painting depicting a despoiling scene in a Roman circus where dead gladiators are stripped of weapons and garments which in turn is considered by scholars as a depiction of the Philippines as a colony of Spain.

Spoliarium

200

The Grand Old Man of the Philippine Art

Fernando Amorsolo

200

This painting by Fernando Amorsolo, known for its depiction of rural life and vibrant use of light, showcases a woman carrying a basket of mangoes

The Fruit Gatherer

200

This medium involves creating images by applying pigment mixed with water onto a wet plaster surface.

Fresco

200

This movement, co-founded by Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque, is known for its fragmented and abstracted forms.

Cubism

200

This ancient Chinese philosophy greatly influenced traditional Chinese landscape painting

Daoism

300

A controversial artist whose works often involved street graffiti, political satire, and installation art works.

Banksy

300

This painting by Juan Luna, often paired with "Spoliarium," reflects the influence of European Romanticism on Philippine art.

Blood Compact

300

This medium involves mixing pigment with egg yolk as a binder for painting.

Tempera


300

This period, which means "rebirth," saw a renewed interest in the classical art and ideas of ancient Greece and Rome.

Renaissance 

300

Mexican Author who said "Art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable". 

Cesar A. Cruz

400

This Norwegian artist is known for his Symbolist painting "The Scream."

Edward Munch

400

This famous painting by Sandro Botticelli depicts the goddess Venus emerging from the sea on a shell.

Birth of Venus

400

This Renaissance painting technique involves blending colors together to create a soft, hazy effect.

Sfumato

400

This early 20th-century avant-garde movement was a reaction against the horrors of World War I and embraced absurdity

Dadaism

400

This Japanese art form, meaning "pictures of the floating world," includes woodblock prints and paintings depicting scenes from everyday life.

Ukiyo-e

500

This French Impressionist painter is known for his series of water lilies and his garden in Giverny.

Claude Monet

500

This large mural by Pablo Picasso, created in response to the bombing of a Basque town during the Spanish Civil War, is a powerful anti-war statement

Guernica

500

This technique, common in Asian ink wash painting, involves diluting ink with water to create varying shades of gray and black.

Sumi-e

500

This Italian artist is known for his intense use of light and shadow, exemplified in "The Calling of Saint Matthew and for being a major artist for the Baroque movement of 1600s

Caravaggio

500

This Japanese aesthetic concept, which means "beauty in imperfection," values simplicity, asymmetry, and the passage of time.

Wabi-sabi