Most Recognizable Works of Art

Edvard Munch “The Scream” 1893 Norwegian Expressionist painting

Auguste Rodin “The Thinker” 1902 completed Divine Comedy of Dante Represents Poetry and Philosophy French Sculpture

Michelangelo “La Pietà” 1499 Italian painter, sculptor, architect Renaissance Sculpture

Michelangelo “Creation of Adam” Sistine Chapel, Vatican between 1508 and 1512

Michelangelo “David” Marble Sculpture created between 1501 and 1504

Salvador Dalí “The Persistence of Memory” 1931 His most recognizable works

Piet Mondrian “Composition II in Yellow, Blue and Red” Oil on Canvas Dutch artist De Stijl art movement in the Netherlands

Vincent van Gogh “Self-Portrait” 1889 Oil on Canvas

Vincent Van Gogh “Starry Night” 1889 Dutch Post-impressionist

Vincent Van Gogh “Café Terrace at Night” 1888 Oil on canvas

Andy Warhol “Campbell’s Soup I” 1968 Pop Art

Andy Warhol Lemon Marilyn 1962 Pop art

Jacques-Louis David “The Oath of the Horatii” 1784 Neoclassic

Gustav Klimt “The Kiss” 1907 Austrian painter Art Nouveau

Leonardo da Vinci “Mona Lisa” Renaissance oil painting Portrait of Lisa Gherardini

Paul Jackson Pollock “Convergence” 1952 Oil on canvas Abstract Expressionist

Pablo Picasso The Old Guitarist 1903 Oil on panel Picasso’s Blue Period

Pablo Picasso “Guernica” Spanish x 25.6 ft

M.C. Escher “Drawing Hands” 1948

Théodore Géricault “The Raft of the Medusa” Oil painting French Romantic painter

Wassily Kandinsky “Transverse Line” Oil on canvas Russian artist

James McNeill Whistler Whistler’s Mother ( Arrangement in Grey and Black: The Artist's Mother ) Oil on canvas American artist

Francisco de Goya “The Third of May 1808” Spanish romantic painter Completed 1814 Illustrates the Spanish resistance to Napoleon

Francisco de Goya Saturn Devouring His Children Based on the Greek myth of the Titan Cronus

Grant Wood American Gothic American art movement 1930

The Winged Victory of Samothrace Unknown artist Nike of Samothrace, being a 3rd Century BC marble sculpture of the Greek Goddess of Victory. between 220 and 190 BC. Helenistic Period

Katsushika Hokusai “The Great Wave Off Kanagawa” Japanese artist Printmaker

Marcel Duchamp “Fountain” 1917 Found art or readymades

Henri Matisse “Portrait of Madame Matisse (the Green Line)” 1905 Oil and Tempra on Canvas

Jacque-Louis David “Napolean Crossing the Alps” 1805 Oil on Canvas

Johannes Vermeer “Girl with a Pearl Earring” Dutch Artist AKA the Dutch Mona Lisa

Roy Lichtenstein “Drowning Girl” Pop Art