Ask a houseful of ‘Art critics’, who is the greatest painter ever? And you’ll get a different name every time. There is no one standard by which you can judge who is the best ever or who is the most inspirational. Art is Subjective and there is no one definition to ‘beauty’. The reputation of the painter had varied according to the movement. And unfortunately, there were even many of the world’s greatest painters who died unacknowledged. Determining the list of most inspirational painters ever is a highly personal judgment as each one of us have our own stylistic preferences.
Keeping in mind the above mentioned facts, here is my personal list of top 10 inspirational painters of all time. I have used their style of Painting, their reputation over decades, my idea of visual beauty and the influence of their artworks to list out these exceptional painters.
Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci (15 April 1452 – 2 May 1519), more commonly Leonardo da Vinci or simply Leonardo, was an Italian polymath whose areas of interest included invention, painting, sculpting, architecture, science, music, mathematics, engineering, literature, anatomy, geology, astronomy, botany, writing, history, and cartography. He has been variously called the father of palaeontology, ichnology, and architecture, and is widely considered one of the greatest painters of all time. Sometimes credited with the inventions of the parachute, helicopter and tank,he epitomised the Renaissance humanist ideal. Many historians and scholars regard Leonardo as the prime exemplar of the "Universal Genius" or "Renaissance Man", an individual of "unquenchable curiosity" and "feverishly inventive imagination".
Keeping in mind the above mentioned facts, here is my personal list of top 10 inspirational painters of all time. I have used their style of Painting, their reputation over decades, my idea of visual beauty and the influence of their artworks to list out these exceptional painters.
1. Leonardo da Vinci
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