Who were the best painters?

That is a loaded question, to be sure. Best at representational illusion? At evoking emotion? At manipulating the sheer medium (and which type: watercolor, acrylic, oil, fresco, encaustic?)? read more

I once made a list of the best painters . I had about 50 -100 on the list. When I looked at the list and found that one of my favorite painters (it might have been Degas) was number 14 it was disheartening. read more

Enterprising and indefinable, a painter with no rival in all his life, Goya was the painter of the Court and the painter of the people. He was a religious painter and a mystical painter. He was the author of the beauty and eroticism of the 'Maja desnuda' and the creator of the explicit horror of 'The Third of May, 1808'. read more