Gustave Courbet was the ruling figure of realism and a critical precedent for the impressionists. He was one of the most outstanding rebels, both as an artist and as a social activist.

Together with Kandinsky and Malevich, Mondrian is the ultimate figure of early abstract art.

Piero Della Francesca, initially called Piero di Benedetto, was an Italian painter of the Early Renaissance. He was a specialist in geometry and mathematics.

Masaccio, born Tommaso di Ser Giovanni di Simone, was a Florentine artist considered the first great Italian painter of the Quattrocento. Rarely has such a brief life been so crucial to art history.

Peter Paul Rubens is renowned for his innovative and vibrant paintings of religious and mythical subjects.  He is the most influential artist of the Flemish Baroque tradition.

Joan Miró was a Catalan artist who merged abstract art with Surrealist imagination. Miró developed a distinctly metaphorical language of simplified, biomorphic, or naturalistic shapes.

Japanese Translator Keiko McElroy talks about artbook "See You There" by Japanese artist Nishiki Sugawara-Beda!

Francis Bacon was an Irish-born British figurative painter. He lived in London. Bacon did not start to create until his late twenties.

Edvard Munch was a world-famous artist, painter, and printmaker from Norway. The artist coped with the struggle between his passion for women and his anxiety of dismissal throughout his life. 

Andy Warhol was a successful American artist and illustrator who became a leading artist of the 1960s **Pop art movements**. He experimented with various art styles.