Cafe Terrace at Night
Painted by Vincent Van Gogh , this painting shows an everyday setting in bright colors . A simple dinner at a cafe along a street is well-depicted in this simple painting .
Landscape with the Fall of Icarus
This painting by Dutch artist Pieter Bruegel shows man ’ s indifference to the suffering of his fellowmen . It is a powerful theme shown in a rather simple way with Icarus , the Greek character suffering under water and people going on with their work .
School of Athens
Jackson Pollock – One : Number 31 , 1950 ( 1950 )
The art of Jackson Pollock is a modern mystery . How , from flinging paint on a canvas laid on the ground , did he create such beauty and inner structure ? Like a solo by Charlie Parker or Jimi Hendrix , his freeform improvisations loop and lurch and yet achieve a profound unity . Pollock only held this together for a short period of brilliance . This painting is a cathedral of the mind .
Painted by Raphael , this painting contains pictures of famous philosophers such as Plato and Aristotle walking in the middle along with other philosophers on the sides . It is now located in the Vatican .
Chauvet cave paintings ( c 30 , 000 years ago )
Who painted these exquisitely lifelike portraits of animals ? There was no such thing as writing in the ice age so nothing is known of the names , if they had names , of these early people . Cave artists may have been women ; they may have been children . What is known is that Homo sapiens , our species of human , makes its mark with these paintings that are as beautiful and intelligent as anything created since .
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