Salvador Dali

Salvador Dali was born in Spain in 1904. When he was a child, he showed strange behavior and often interrupted his class in school. As he got older, he started to paint pictures that came from his dreams. His dreams and his paintings were scary and unreal.
Dali went to art school in Madrid, Spain. He got kicked out, and never finished. He even spent time in jail. However, he continued to paint, and his art style became known as Surrealism. Salvador Dali drew everyday items, but changed them in odd ways. For example, one of his paintings is of melting clocks.

Before he died at the age of 85 in 1989, Dali had created works in film, ballet, opera, fashion, jewelry, and advertising illustrations.

Marc Chagall

Marc Chagall was born on July 7, 1887 in Vitebsk, Russia. In 1932 he moved to France. He lived in the United States from 1941 to 1948, and then returned to France. He died in France on March 28. 1985.

His painting styles are Expressionism and Cubism. In his paintings, he often painted violinists because he played the violin and also in memory of his uncle, who also played. He was also famous for his paintings of Russian-Jewish villages.

Franklin Carmichael

Franklin Carmichael, a Canadian artist who was born on the 4th of May 1890 and died on the 24th of October 1945. He was a member of the group of seven which is a group of Canadian artists who were inspired by the Canadian nature and landscape and wanted to present it in their paintings. Most of his paintings are water colored and depicting the nature of Ontario. 

Evelyn Dunbar

Evelyn Dunbar, born in Berkshire, England on the 18 of December 1906, died on the 12th of May 1960. She was a war artists and was officially employed during the WWII by the War Artists Advisory Committee and was the only woman there. Her art focused on women ´participation in society especially during the war time. Her paintings are currently held by famous museums such as The Imperial War Museum, Manchester Art Gallery and Oxford Brookes University museum.  

Walter Womacka

Walter Womacka is a German socialist artist, born in Czechoslovakia on the 22nd of December 1925 and died in Berlin on the 18th of September 2010. His works of arts usually reflects socialists ideas and how the society is ought to function from a socialistic perspective. His works included mosaic, stained glass and using other objects in art. His style is very distinctive and  gives in general a peaceful feeling despite the political ideology behind them.

Julio Galan

Julio Galan is a Mexican, born on the 5th of December 1959, died the 4th of August 2006. One of the neo-expressionist artists famous of expressing other worlds and strange feelings in his paintings. One can clearly see that beyond those paintings there are puzzles and mysteries reflected by the Galan. He died relatively young but he sure added to the world of art and left his imprint in it.

Raphael Sanzio

Born in Urbino Italy, April the 6th 1483. Raphael was very productive painter and an architect. His father was also a painter working at the Duce of Arbino´s court, which gave him a very good manners and artistic taste. Raphael was a good friend of Pope Leo X which also gave him a good place in socity and the privelge to design St. Peter´s Cathedral however it didnt work out as he designed it gloomy and darkely they had to change it. Raphael´s famous paintings icludes The Transfiguration 1550 and Galatea in 1513.

Galatea

The Transfiguration 

La Donna Velata