The first one is Leonardo da Vinci, he was born April 15th in 1452 and dies May 2nd in 1519. His profession was painting, sculpting, architecture, engineering, science and inventing. One of his more famous works the Mona Lisa and some others were The last supper and The virgin of the rocks.
Next is Van Gogh, he was born March 20 in 1853 and was oldest of six kids. and sadly it wasn’t until after he died that he became famous. He began painting when he was 27 and was mainly self taught, only have mild help. Has produced hundreds of drawings and paintings. Some of his famous works were Starry night, Sunflowers, Bedroom in Aries and Wheatfield with the crows.
Third is going to be Frida Kahlo who was born July 6th in 1907 and died July 13th in 1954. Her father was German and her mother was Spanish and Indigenous decent. She has health problems growing up, contracting polio at the age of 6 and suffered from life long disabilities. Painting was the medium she chose and her style was a mix of surrealism and magic realism. The themes of her artwork was about identity, postcolonialism, gender, class, race and chronic pain. and out of the 143 paintings she made in her life time, 55 of them were self portraits.
And last is Picasso who was born October 25th in 1881 and dies April 8th in 1973. He was considered to be a child prodigy and did his first exhibit at 19 years old. He also created hundreds on artworks and specialized in painting, sculptures, ceramics, prints and even stage design. He is the co-founder of cubism and was known as a big animal lover. Some of his famous artworks were Les demoiselles d’Avignon, Guernica and Girl before the mirror.
