This painting is titled Water lilies and the Japanese bridge 1897-99. You can see this painting at the Princeton University Art Museum in New Jersey.

Claude Monet was a French painter who was recognized for the art movement Impressionism. He loved to paint outside and largely focused on the way light affected objects. In 1859 Claude moved to Paris and decided to pursue an art career. In France he studied at the Academie Suisse and also during this time met a close friend Camilla Pissarro. Throughout his career the Impressionist were given a lot of criticism because their artwork was said to be more like sketches and seemed not finished. Monet continued to paint grand masterpieces of his gardens at Giverny, ponds with waterlilies, bridges and he struggled with depression even though he was so successful.

This painting is titled Bathers at Asnières, 1884. It is an oil on canvas and you can see it at the National Gallery in London.

George Seurat is remembered for his painting technique called pointillism. He loves to place small dots or strokes of color all over the canvas and when viewed from a distance the image came to life. Like the Impressionist he also loved painting outside and was amazed with scientific theories of color and expressionism.
Seurat went to the Ecole des Beaux-Arts school to study and a large emphasis was placed on drawing and composition. He took an interested in the effects of color, form, and light and like the Impressionist they were occupied with the fleeting moment of their painting subject. Although he left a large body of influential work behind, Seurat died at 31.

This painting is titled The Port at La Rochelle 1921 and you can find this painting at the Musée D'Orsay in Paris, France.

You might find it interesting that Paul was studying to be an architect in his early career and then changed to painting. In 1884 he met, Claude Monet and George's Seurat and he loved their methods of color and theory.
Many of his paintings have been along Frances coastal waters and this became his subject matter. He became president of the Societe des Artistes Independants from 1908 until his death. He abandoned the short brushstrokes of Impressionism and wanted to experiment with small dots of per color all over the plane. Paul like the artists of Pointillism would not blend the dots on the canvas, but let the viewers eyes blend the colors.

This is Girl Before a Mirror painted in 1932, it can be at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in Manhattan, New York.
He was taught formal training by his father at age 7 and continue to get training when his father became a professor from the ages of 10 to 13. Throughout his younger life he was awarded the opportunity to enroll in many art schools and Pablo mastered them, surpassing his teachers. He started the entire Cubism movement in the early 1900s and ended in 1919. Pablo developed this very unique style of art that would help him later experiment with other styles of art. Classicism, Surrealism, and Sculpture were other art styles and he created masterpieces like Guernica in 1937 combining concepts of war and surrealism.
Pablo Picasso was an important figure in the 20th century art world and no other artist had such an impact to date as Picasso did. He had a large quantity of works spanning more than 20,000 pieces including; paintings, drawings, sculptures, ceramic and even costume and theaters sets.

Diego painted this north wall of the Detroit Institute of Arts in Detroit in 1932-33. Detroit was considered to be the leading industrial center of the world and it was hit hardest by the great. depression.
Diego Rivera was born on December 8, 1886 in Mexico. He wasn't punished by his parents but given chalk and pencils and had to stay in his room. Interesting enough he became a muralist which is someone who paints large pictures called murals on a wall. Typically they can be seen in any city on a side of a building or a bridge they can be all different sizes, colors, themes, but they do always incorporate a deeper meaning. They take a lot of work, thought and detail. He had a passion for the people of Mexico reflecting back a lot on the working class and the natives.

Campbells soup cans, 1968, can be seen at the Warhol museum in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Andy studied commercial art after high school, and in 1949 mover to New York City. Moving there completely changed his life and there was many opportunities at his fingertips and he became to network also with other artists. He did ink drawings, silk screening, printmaking, advertising, and magazine illustration, shoe designing, and the lists goes on and on.
Andy Warhol was known for the silk screen and printmaking widely and became the leader of the pop art movement. In this movement artist used every day objects as their subjects examples would be the Campbell's soup can, lipstick, and portraits of famous people such as Elvis, and Marilyn Monroe.