"If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint', then by all means paint and that voice will be silenced."
—Vincent van Gogh, letter to his brother
Artists who use traditional paint media in their work. This includes users of oils, watercolors, opaque, acrylics, and other mediums carefully applied over traditional canvases, walls (murals), plaster (frescoes), and even wood.
Go to Paintings for the artworks themselves.
Creators:
- Lawrence Alma-Tadema
- Tarsila do Amaral
- Fernando Amorsolo
- Terry Ananny
- Eşref Armağan
- Wayne Barlowe
- Zdzisław Beksiński
- Hieronymus Bosch
- Sandro Botticelli
- William-Adolphe Bouguereau
- John Brewster Jr
- Brom
- Pieter Bruegel the Elder
- Michelangelo Buonarroti
- Alexandre Cabanel
- Eric Carle
- Chuck and George
- Salvador Dalí
- Jacques-Louis David
- Thomas Davidson
- Gustave Doré
- José María Eguren
- Caspar David Friedrich
- Artemisia Gentileschi
- Khalil Gibran
- H. R. Giger
- Francisco de Goya
- Gabriel Grün
- Keith Haring
- Laurel Holloman
- Edward Hopper
- Gerard Huber
- Victor Hugo
- Tove Jansson
- Alejandro Jodorowsky
- Frida Kahlo
- Wassily Kandinsky
- Izumi Kato
- Gustav Klimt
- Charles R. Knight
- Yayoi Kusama
- Tamara De Lempicka
- Leonardo da Vinci
- Emanuel Leutze
- René Magritte
- Alphonse Mucha
- Edvard Munch
- Takashi Murakami
- Quintus Pedius
- Pablo Picasso
- Naudline Pierre
- Ariana Richards
- Norman Rockwell
- Alex Ross
- Bob Ross
- Dante Gabriel Rossetti
- Peter Paul Rubens
- Will Sampson
- Raphael Sanzio
- Aza Smith
- Shaun Tan
- Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
- John Doman Turner
- Boris Vallejo
- Vincent van Gogh
- Rembrandt van Rijn
- Johannes Vermeer
- Andy Warhol
- John William Waterhouse
- Bob West
- Takato Yamamoto
- Anders Zorn