Spotlight 9. Module 3. Art & Design

Famous Paintings

The Mona Lisa is an oil painting by Italian artist, inventor, and writer Leonardo da Vinci. Likely completed in 1506. In addition to being one of the most famous works of art

Mona Lisa,

Leonardo da Vinci

1503-06

Girl with a Pearl Earring represents a young woman in a dark shallow space. She wears a blue and gold turban, the titular pearl earring , and a gold jacket with a visible white collar

Johannes Vermeer, 1665

Sometimes also referred to as The Cry, Munch's painting The Scream is known for its expressionistic colors, bright swirling sky, and of course its mysterious subject: a person clasping their face and screaming

The Scream

Edvard Munch, 1893

The Starry Night , a moderately abstract landscape painting (1889) of an expressive night sky over a small hillside village, one of Dutch artist Vincent van Gogh's most celebrated works.

The Kiss is housed in the Austrian Gallery in Vienna's Upper Belvedere Palace. The painting depicts a couple embracing in a field of flowers. .

The Kiss

Gustav Klimt

Magritte painted The Son of Man as a self-portrait. The painting consists of a man in an overcoat and a bowler hat standing in front of a short wall, beyond which is the sea and a cloudy sky. The man's face is largely obscured by a hovering green apple.

The Son of Man

Rene Magritte

1964