Getting to know the world's greatest artists

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Frida Kahlo

2016
Provides an entertaining and humorous introduction to the famous artist, Frida Kahlo. Color reproductions of the actual paintings are enhanced by Venezia's illustrations and story line.

Claude Monet

2015
Describes the life of the French impressionist artist and examines some of his paintings.

Pierre Auguste Renoir

1996
Briefly recounts the French painter's development, along with other fellow artists, of a new type of painting known as Impressionism.

Horace Pippin

2008
Biography that profiles the life and work of self-taught African American artist Horace Pippin and features descriptions and reproductions of selected paintings.

Eugene Delacroix

2003
Describes the life and career of the nineteenth-century French artist Eugene Delacroix, whose experiments with color and scenes of action led to Impressionism and other modern art styles.

Diego Vel?azquez

2004
Describes the life and career of the seventeenth-century Spanish artist famous for his portraits of royalty.

Jackson Pollock

1992
Examines the life and work of the American painter known for splattering, throwing, or dripping paint onto canvases.

Van Gogh

Briefly examines the life and work of the nineteenth-century Dutchman who was one of the greatest artists of all time.

Alexander Calder

1998
Examines the life and work of the twentieth-century artist Alexander Calder, famous for creating the moving sculptures known as mobiles.

Johannes Vermeer

2002
An overview of the life and work of the seventeenth-century Dutch painter, famous for creating realistic scenes of everyday life.

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