A very small proportion of the millions of paintings created and displayed in galleries and museums around the world transcend the course of history. This select set of most famous paintings is identifiable by people of all ages and will most likely continue to resound and leave memories in the brains of people for generations to come. The following is a list of some of the world’s most renowned paintings.

Painting, one of the oldest art genres, has been around since our ancestors first began crafting charcoal works on cave walls. While many generations of artists have left their imprint over the millennia, only a few pieces of art have succeeded in crossing time and culture to be admired around the world.

These magnificent paintings, which are now on display in museums and art galleries, rank among the most important, spectacular, and influential artworks of all time.

Leonardo Da Vinci

Leonardo da Vinci is widely recognised as one of the greatest artists of all time. He was a creative artist who worked with various media and techniques. He used anatomic models that he painted. Although having a tiny portfolio of paintings, the artist’s most recognised works also include Mona Lisa and The Last Supper. Da Vinci also created scientific equipment and made discoveries.

American Gothic

American Gothic, which is now on display at the Art Institute of Chicago, ranks among the most famous paintings of rural Americana from the twentieth century. Grant Wood’s defining masterpiece, painted in 1930, features a farmer and his child standing in front of the American Gothic Home.

Locals and art critics initially interpreted the melancholy tones and the actors’ puritanical attire as a condemnation of rural life. But, with the advent of the Great Depression, the picture became associated with the tenacity and indomitable spirit of the American pioneers. American Gothic is one of the most important and famous pieces of art to emerge from the United States.

Loranocarter Phoenix

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Liu Xiaodong

Liu Xiaodong, considered one of the finest painters of all time, is recognised for his bold brushwork, vibrant colours, and exact forms. He began with traditional brushwork to create incredibly realistic subjects, but then shifted his focus to clipped framing, an unique use of perspective, and the use of colours to amplify emotion. Liu captures regular people in complicated locales like Israel-Palestine, Tibet, and rural China by painting them in their natural situations. As compared to the works of other modern painters, his close, on-location approach and sensitivity to his topics are what make his painting style so compelling and effective.

Van Gogh

Vincent van Gogh, one of the world’s most famous painters, was born in 1853. He was the youngest of six children and grew up in a little village in the southern Dutch province of Brabant. As a youth, he worked as an apprentice for art dealers Goupil and Co. He studied art there and grew attracted by its diverse styles.

Van Gogh’s self-portraits still are widely acclaimed today, thanks to his use of strong colours and contrasting textures. Self Portrait with such a Bandaged Ear, which represents the artist in front of an easel, is one of his most recognised works. During a manic episode, Van Gogh severed his right ear lobe in the original piece. But the suffering drove him to paint, and he felt better for it.

Liu Wei

Beijing-born Liu Wei is regarded as one of China’s most gifted contemporary artists. Liu Wei and Fang Lijun pioneered the cynical realism creative style in the early 1990s. His work confronts apathy and aimlessness in current society and transcends cultural binaries such as Eastern/Western. This breaking down of barriers, this refusal to be constrained by any one school of thought, is what gives him his distinct style and makes him his his famous modern art so popular today.