ART: Everything you need to know about the Greatest Artists and their Works

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Defining a “great” artist as opposed to a merely good one is always going to be subjective. But it is not just a matter of personal taste. Nor is it fashion—many artists have basked in the glory of their esteemed reputations during their lives, only to fade into obscurity after their deaths, and some artists are forgotten and rediscovered in later centuries. Which prompts the question: do all great artists withstand the test of time? There are no real rules. So, to select 100 great artists for this book, there needed to be some sort of criteria. However, artists before the Renaissance era were rarely named individually. In later centuries, different societies and technologies changed the purpose of art, which made the selection process even more complex. In the end, the 100 great artists—including painters, sculptors and printmakers from the 13th century to the 1960s—were chosen because they changed art, and their work had implications on subsequent artistic developments. Although many worthy artists have been omitted, those included are among the most exciting, outstanding and enduring.

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