Claude Monet

Monet was a founder of French impressionist painting, and the most consistent and prolific practitioner of the movement’s philosophy of expressing one’s perceptions before nature, especially as applied to plein-air landscape painting. The term Impressionism is derived from the title of his painting Impression, Sunrise

Jenny Saville

Saville is a contemporary British painter; best known as one of the Young British Artists. She is known for her large-scale painted depictions of naked women. I came across her work during my Fine Art A Levels and I have loved her work since. Her work is not to everyones taste, however I find her work to be beautiful, extraordinary, and powerful. It shows the physicality, and the weight of the mass of flesh in each painting. The Media that she uses is oil paints on canvas. She also did a painting called ‘Strategy’ which appeared on the cover of Manic Street Preachers’ third album, The Holy Bible. Stare (2005) was used the cover of the Manic’s 2009 album Journal For Plague Lovers. This album cover placed second in a 2009 poll for Best Art Vinyl.

John Constable

Constable was an English Romantic painter. Born in Suffolk, he is known principally for his landscape paintings of Dedham Vale, the area surrounding his home—now known as “Constable Country”—which he invested with an intensity of affection. “I should paint my own places best”, he wrote to his friend John Fisher in 1821, “painting is but another word for feeling”.

Salvador Dali

Dalí was a skilled draftsman, best known for the striking and bizarre images in his surrealist work. His painterly skills are often attributed to the influence of Renaissance masters. His best-known work, The Persistence of Memory, was completed in 1931. Dalí’s expansive artistic repertoire includes film, sculpture, and photography, in collaboration with a range of artists in a variety of media.