Salvador Dalí was one of the most famous painters of the 20th century with a series of imaginative and shocking surrealist works. His repertoire was influenced by the classical Renaissance masters, but he also enjoyed a new avant-garde approach to painting.
In addition to painting, he also worked in film, sculpture and photography. Dalí had a habit of doing eccentric things that polarised his views. His eccentric ways were a reflection of his art and vice versa. The fact that he was always in the spotlight made his paintings all the more famous.
Alfons Mucha was a Czech painter, illustrator and graphic designer living in Paris during the Art Nouveau period. Mucha is best known for his distinctly stylized and decorative theater posters exclusively made for French actress Sarah Bernhardt.
After his success with works for Berhardt he also became the face of the Art Nouveau movement. He produced illustrations, advertisements, decorative panels and other designs, which became the best known images of that period.
Even though his success in France was huge, he returned back home to Czechoslovakia where he acknowledges his Slavic roots through Mucha’s lifetime art work the “Slav Epic” — a series of 20 massive canvases depicting key events in the history of Slavic people. He worked on the Slav Epic for 18 years.
Andy Warhol was an American artist, filmmaker and producer who was a leading exponent of the movement of visual art known as Pop Art.
His work explores the relationship between artistic expression, the cult of celebrity and advertising, which flourished in the 1960s and spanned a variety of media including painting, screen printing, photography, film and sculpture.
His New York studio, The Factory, has become a famous meeting place that has brought together distinguished intellectuals, playwrights, street bohemians, Hollywood celebrities and wealthy patrons.
