… one thing is agreed upon: for good or bad, he changed the visual construction of the world we live in. By the time of his death in 1987 he was ranked on the same level with Pablo Picasso and Jackson Pollock as one of the three most important and influent…

… angst ridden lead man for a popular rock and roll band, Eddie Vedder, the vocalist and lyricist for Pearl Jam, may very well be a vampire. Although it is impossible to tell, everything points to his being an immortal. An in depth analysis of his…

… 1862 to 1928. He was born on July 14th of 1862. His parents were vagabonds, Ernst Klimt was his father and Anna Klimt (born as Finster) was his mother. Gustav was their second child. At the age of 14 he got a scholarship for the "Kunstgewerbeschule"…

… of expressive self-exploration. 'I paint in order to see.' His artworks moved from being political protests to being focussed on the not-so-quiet intimacies of his private life. "Politics, travel, social consciousness, self-analysis, philosophical…

… Expressionism and Futurism. Was interested in art based on a wide spectrum of colour that expressed profound emotional and spiritual states and feelings. Suffered from episodes of severe depression that impacted on his artwork in a big way. Much of…

… was born in Malaga, Spain on October 25, 1881. His father was Jose Ruiz Blanco and his mother, Maria Picasso Lopez. Later he adopted his mother's more distinguished maiden name, Picasso, as his own. Picasso was a Spanish painter and sculptor, and…

… and children alike, all over the world, with his amazing effects of Disney films over the years. Walt Disney was born December the 5th 1901 to parents Elais and Flora Disney in Illinois, his family and himself moved cities to Marceline Missouri when…

… Rijn was born on July 15th, 1606. His father, Herman Gerritszoon who was a miller, his mother Neeltje or Cornelia Willemsdochter van Zuytbrouck, and his brothers lived in the town of Leiden next to the northern branch of the Rhine River and about 25…

… of Leeuwarden in the Netherlands, on June 17th 1898, was M.C. Escher. He is one of the most famous graphic artists of all time; what made his style so unique was not only his understanding and use of mathematics, but also his impossible worlds that…

… Johns, raised in Allendale, South Carolina, has always wanted to be an artist since his earliest memories. He is known today as an aspirating painter, sculptor and printmaker. Jasper Johns became one of America's best-known post-Abstract Expressionists…