According to the Wikipedia entry, Johannes (Jan) Vermeer was, “a Dutch Baroque painter who specialized in exquisite, domestic interior scenes of middle class life.” Unlike the other painters featured in the “Painters Every Photographer Should…

Andrew Wyeth was an American painter born in 1917 in the small rural Pennsylvania town of Chadds Ford. The youngest of five children, born to an illustrator and artist father, N. C. Wyeth, Andrew Wyeth’s…

Pieter Cornelis “Piet” Mondriaan, known as Piet Mondrian, was a Dutch painter, born in the Netherlands in 1872 into an artistic family. His father was a drawing teacher and his uncle a painter. As a…

As a Russian born of Jewish faith, you might expect a painter like Marc Chagall, who fled Nazi occupation by moving to Paris and the United States, to paint dark, brooding subjects. You might expect…