내 삶 의 바탕 화면 Durand , Asher Brown : " Pastoral landscape ", 1861 저게 뭐 더라 . 어디 에서 많이 본 듯 한 모습 이 눈앞 에 펼쳐져 있 다 . 그것 은 바탕 화면 이 었 다 . 내 컴퓨터 의 바탕 화면 이 눈앞 에 나타난 것 이 다 . 바람 이 다듬 은 선 고운 언덕 , 완곡 한 에스 라인 의 푸른 초원 과 파란 물 이 뚝뚝 떨어질 것 같 은 하늘 , 그리고 흰 구름 . 나 는 그 바탕 화면 을 좋아한다 . 푸른 초원 과 파란 하늘 그리고 흰 구름 이 조화 를 이루 고 있 는 단순 함 으로 되돌아와 잠시 나마 눈 과 마음 의 쉼 을 얻 곤 했 다 . 내 삶 의 바탕 화면 은 무엇 일까 . - 신영길 의 《 초원 의 바람 을 가르 다 》 중 에서 -* 내 삶 의 바탕 화면 은 무엇 일까 . 이 시간 저 자신 에게 도 같 은 질문 을 던져 봅니다 . 탁 트인 푸른 초원 , 맑 고 푸른 하늘 , 흰 구름 의 모습 일까 , 아니면 검 은 땅 , 흐린 하늘 , 탁한 먹구름 의 모습 일까 ? 누구 든 찾아와도 어머님 품 처럼 따뜻 한 곳 일까 , 열 때 마다 얼음 처럼 차갑 고 메마른 곳 일까 ? 사람 은 누구 나 바탕 화면 이 있 습니다 . 그 가 하 는 말 , 몸짓 , 발걸음 하나 에 얼핏얼핏 투영 되 어 나타납니다 . FREE ART WALLPAPERS * 마음 에 드 시 는 그림 의 크기 를 클릭 하 셔서 바탕 화면 으로 사용 하 시 면 됩니다 . Turn your computer screen into a piece of Art ! We have selected some of the most import ! !! ant and well - known artist from the Art History , from Leonardo to van Gogh . Just take a look at the stunning masterworks displayed below , choose the one you like the most , and select your computer screen resolution , from the classic 1024 x 768 to the new 1680 x 1050 . All wallpapers are high resolution copies of the original work , with no annoying texts or watermarks . Please check this list regularly as we will add new Art wallpapers often . Now displaying 61 wallpapers from 44 different artists ! Animated wallpaper - 7 masterworks of impressionism Cézanne , van Gogh , Degas , Gauguin . .. Choose resolution : 1024 x 768 - 1280 x 800 - 1280 x 1024 - 1440 x 900 ¿ Tired of your boring , static wallpaper of your computer screen ? This stunning wallpaper will turn your desktop into a Museum displaying 7 masterworks by Cézanne , Degas , Gauguin , Monet , Rousseau , Seurat and van Gogh changing every 7 seconds - Aivazovsky , Ivan : " The ninth wave " State Museum , Saint Petersburg Choose resolution : 1024 x 768 - 1280 x 800 - 1280 x 1024 - 1440 x 900 - 1680 x 1050 - 1600 x 1200 Aivazovsky reaches in this painting an absolute technical perfection , painting a group of unlucky castaways trying to survive . The centre of the composition is the powerful , almost mystical and diffuse representation of the sun , which illuminates the scene with a strange , oneiric range of green and pink shades . Alma - Tadema , Lawrence : " Unconscious rivals " Private collection Choose resolution : 1024 x 768 - 1280 x 800 - 1280 x 1024 - 1440 x 900 While born in the Netherlands , Sir Lawrence Alma - Tadema spent most of his life in London , when he became one of the most import ! !! ant Victorian painters . He is the author of many complex compositions about the Roman Empire , such as this or The Roses of Heliogabalus Arcimboldo , Giuseppe : " The market gardener ", c . 1590 Civic Museum , Cremona Choose resolution : 1024 x 768 - 1280 x 800 - 1280 x 1024 - 1440 x 900 - 1680 x 1050 Perhaps the best example of Arcimboldo ' s originality is the inverted portraits , apparent still lifes that , once turned 90 º, are transformed into strange , disturbing portraits . " The roast " or " The cook " and " The market gardener " are the best and more famous examples . Bellows , George : " Shore house ", 1911 Private collection Choose resolution : 1024 x 768 - 1280 x 800 - 1280 x 1024 Born in Columbus , Ohio , George Bellows is famous for his depictions of the urban life in New York ( " Cliff Dwellers " or the " Polo Crowd " sold for $ 27 . 5 million in 1999 ) . Nevertheless , he finished some nice landscapes such as " Shore House " or " Paradise Point " Bellows , George : " Paradise Point ", 1919 Private collection Choose resolution : 1024 x 768 - 1280 x 800 - 1280 x 1024 Born in Columbus , Ohio , George Bellows is famous for his depictions of the urban life in New York ( " Cliff Dwellers " or the " Polo Crowd " sold for $ 27 . 5 million in 1999 ) . Nevertheless , he finished some nice landscapes such as " Shore House " or " Paradise Point " Bierstadt , Albert : " Among the Sierra Nevada mountains ", 1868 Whitney Museum of ArtChoose resolution : 1024 x 768 - 1280 x 800 - 1440 x 900 Bierstadt ( 1830 - 1902 ) emigrated from Europe to Massachusetts with his family being only a boy . He is one of the first painters who represented the grandeur of the American West , as we can see in his views of Yosemite Valley , the Kern River Valley or the White Mountains . Bierstadt , Albert : " Lake Tahoe " Fogg Art Museum , Cambridge ( USA ) Choose resolution : 1024 x 768 - 1280 x 800 - 1280 x 1024 - 1440 x 900 - 1680 x 1050 - 1600 x 1200 Bierstadt is one of the first painters who represented the grandeur of the American West , as we can see in his views of Yosemite Valley , the Kern River Valley or the White Mountains . Bosch , Hieronymus : " The Garden of delights ( detail ) ", c . 1510 Madrid , Museo del Prado Choose resolution : 1024 x 768 - 1280 x 800 - 1280 x 1024 - 1440 x 900 - 1680 x 1050 One of the most famous and commented paintings of all the western painting . The work by Hyeronimus Bosch is basically moralizing , didactic . The artist sees in the society the triumph of the sin , the depravation , and all the things that have caused the fall of the human being from its angelical character . Botticelli , Sandro : " The Birth of Venus " Florence , UfizziChoose resolution : 1024 x 768 - 1280 x 800 - 1280 x 1024 - 1440 x 900 - 1680 x 1050 - 1600 x 1200 This is not only Botticelli ' s most famous work , but also one of the most appealing masterpieces from the Italian Renaissance . Sensual and colourful , " The Birth of Venus " is one of the most well - known paintings in the world Brueghel the elder , Pieter : " Dutch proverbs ", 1559 Berlin , Gemäldegalerie Choose resolution : 1024 x 768 - 1280 x 800 Parallelisms are commonly established between Bosch and Brueghel , but the truth is that the differences are abysmal . Works by Bruegel ( as we can see in works as " The Dutch Proverbs ") are full of irony and even a love for the rural life that seems to anticipate the Dutch landscape painting of the next century Canaletto : " The Regatta seen from Ca Foscari ", 1727 London , National Gallery Choose resolution : 1024 x 768 - 1280 x 800 - 1280 x 1024 - 1440 x 900 - 1680 x 1050 - 1600 x 1200 Giovanni Antonio Canal - Canaletto - is by far the most famous Venetian 18 th century painter . Among his pupils we found Guardi , Bellotto or Moretti , among others Cézanne , Paul : " Montagne Sainte - Victoire ", 1882 - 85 New York , Metropolitan Museum Choose resolution : 1024 x 768 - 1280 x 800 - 1280 x 1024 - 1440 x 900 - 1680 x 1050 This is one of the most famous versions of the numerous views that Paul Cézanne painted of the Mount Sainte - Victoire in the outskirts of Aix - en - Provence . This work is " cubist before the cubism ": the triangular mountain and the prairie elements - geographic or edificatory - acquire volume thanks not to the perspective , but to the superposition of chromatic planes Cézanne , Paul : " Still life with apples and oranges ", 1895 - 1900 Paris , Museé d ' OrsayChoose resolution : 1024 x 768 - 1280 x 800 - 1280 x 1024 - 1440 x 900 - 1680 x 1050 - 1600 x 1200 Cézanne is arguably the greatest master the Still Life Painting of any era , and this shining painting constitutes one of his most ambitious compositionsChurch , Frederick Edwin : " The Icebergs ", 1861 Dallas Museum of Art Choose resolution : 1024 x 768 - 1280 x 800 The icy death . Beautiful and exuberant at first glance , this masterwork is a sinister and terrible romantic document , showing the remains of a shipwreck , where it really doesn ' t matter if the sailors have survived or not : the merciless icebergs will soon kill them if the violence of the accident has not done it before Church , Frederick Edwin : " Cotopaxi ", 1855 Smithsonian MuseumChoose resolution : 1024 x 768 - 1280 x 800 - 1440 x 900 Church represents the culmination of the Hudson River School : the love for the landscape of Cole , the romantic lyricism of Durand , and the grandiloquence of Bierstadt , but braver and technically more gifted than anyone with them . Church , Frederick Edwin : " Morning at the tropics ", 1877 Washington , National Gallery of ArtChoose resolution : 1024 x 768 - 1280 x 800 - 1280 x 1024 - 1440 x 900 - 1680 x 1050 Church is one of the best landscape painters of all time , perhaps only surpassed by Turner and some impressionists or postimpressionists like Monet or Cézanne Cole , Thomas : " Crawford Notch ", 1839 Washington , National Gallery of ArtChoose resolution : 1024 x 768 - 1280 x 800 - 1280 x 1024 - 1440 x 900 - 1680 x 1050 Cole is known as the founder of the Hudson River School . Born in Britain , his family emigrates to America when he was only 17 years old , so we can consider him a totally American painter . Cole discovers the beauty of the Hudson River in 1825 , when emigrating to New York , and begins to create his first outdoors sketches Constable , John : " The Hay Wain ", 1821 London , National Gallery Choose resolution : 1024 x 768 - 1280 x 800 - 1280 x 1024 - 1440 x 900 - 1680 x 1050 - 1600 x 1200 Constable ( 1776 - 1837 ) is , with William Turner , the great figure of the English romanticism . Unlike his contemporary , he never left England , and he devoted all his time to represent the life and landscapes of his loved England . This self - imposed limitation did not prevent him from develop a highly personal style . Degas , Edgar : " Ballet class ", 1875 Private collection Choose resolution : 1024 x 768 - 1280 x 800 - 1280 x 1024 - 1440 x 900 - 1680 x 1050 Edgar Degas ' paintings depicting dancers and ballerinas rank among the most charmings artworks ever created Delacroix , Eugene : " Liberty leading the people ", 1830 Paris , Louvre Choose resolution : 1024 x 768 - 1280 x 800 - 1280 x 1024 " Liberty leading the People " is a work filled with symbolism . Technically it ' s also an extraordinary work , in which the memories of Gericault ' s " the raft of the medusa " are present in the composition Immediately associated with the French Revolution , Delacroix ' s masterwork also demonstrates the capacity of the Painting to become the symbol of an age . Durand , Asher Brown : " Kindred spirits " ( detail ) , 1849 Private collectionChoose resolution : 1024 x 768 - 1280 x 800 - 1280 x 1024 - 1440 x 900 - 1680 x 1050 - 1600 x 1200 Two men at the top of the rocks , contemplating a fantastic fluvial valley , studded with rocks , shrubs and water jumps . Everything is peacefully ; everything is perfect within the grandiloquence of the Nature Durand , Asher Brown : " Pastoral landscape ", 1861 Washington , National Gallery of ArtChoose resolution : 1024 x 768 - 1280 x 800 - 1280 x 1024 - 1440 x 900 - 1680 x 1050 More romantic and less faithful to the reality that Cole , their works are despite more beautiful and poetic , with clear influences of masters like Meindert Hobbema or Claude Lorrain . He is the author of works as " Kindred Spirits " or " The beeches ". Eakins , Thomas : " Shad fishing at Gloucester , Delaware River ", 1881 Philadelphia Museum of Art Choose resolution : 1024 x 768 - 1280 x 800 - 1280 x 1024 - 1440 x 900 - 1680 x 1050 Eakins was one of the most import ! !! ant painters of the American 19 th century . " The Gross clinic ", a 1875 canvas by Eakins , and described by a New York critic as " the most beautiful American painting of the 19 th century " was purchased by the National Gallery and the new Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art for $ 68 million Friedrich , Caspar David : " The great Preserve ( Ostra Preserve ) ", 1832 Dresden , Gemäldegalerie Choose resolution : 1024 x 768 - 1280 x 800 - 1280 x 1024 - 1440 x 900 - 1680 x 1050 Caspar David Friedrich is the most famous of all the German romantic painters , and one of the greatest landscape painters of the Art history . This stunning painting is one of his most famous and admired works . Friedrich , Caspar David : " Wreck in the Sea of Ice ", 1823 / 24 Hamburg , Kunsthalle Choose resolution : 1024 x 768 - 1280 x 800 - 1280 x 1024 - 1440 x 900 - 1680 x 1050 - 1600 x 1200 Caspar David Friedrich is the most famous of all the German romantic painters , and one of the greatest landscape painters of the Art history . This stunning painting is one of his most famous and admired works . Gauguin , Paul : " The day of the Gods ", 1894 Chicago , Art Institute Choose resolution : 1024 x 768 - 1280 x 800 - 1280 x 1024 - 1440 x 900 - 1680 x 1050 Gauguin travelled to the tropics searching an artistic redemption , a comeback to the primitive an exotic that could help him to find the way in which his Art could be purified . In his own words , " Occident is rotten and anyone who is like Hercules can find new strengths travelling to far - away places . And coming back one or two years after , solid " Gauguin , Paul : " Arearea - Joyeusetés ", 1892 Paris , Musée d ' Orsay Choose resolution : 1024 x 768 - 1280 x 800 - 1280 x 1024 - 1440 x 900 Gauguin travelled to the tropics searching an artistic redemption , a comeback to the primitive an exotic that could help him to find the way in which his Art could be purified . In his own words , " Occident is rotten and anyone who is like Hercules can find new strengths travelling to far - away places . And coming back one or two years after , solid " Gérôme , Jean - Léon : " Bethsabee ", 1889 Paris , Louvre Choose resolution : 1024 x 768 - 1280 x 800 - 1280 x 1024 - 1440 x 900 Gérôme was one of the last masters of the French neo - classicism tradition . He rejected the impressionist movement and produced many paintings in an Orientalist and Historical style . Hiroshige , Ando : " Men poling boats past a bank with willows ", 1858 Tokyo , National Museum Choose resolution : 1024 x 768 - 1280 x 800 - 1280 x 1024 - 1440 x 900 - 1680 x 1050 Ando Hiroshige is considered the last great master of Japanese stamp , interested , as Hokusai , for the natural elements and landscape . His unquestionable masterpiece is the series of one hundred famous landscapes from Edo " Hokusai , Katsushika : " The wave ", c . 1830 New York , Metropolitan Museum Choose resolution : 1024 x 768 - 1280 x 800 - 1280 x 1024 - 1440 x 900 - 1680 x 1050 The wave is her much more than a mere oceanic circumstance . It ' s a monster , a giant leviathan that menaces with its canines the agile and audacious ships that cross , flexible , the Japanese seas . The terrible ocean ' s claw is so powerful that threatens to devour even the sacred Mount Fuji , presented at the background as another victim of the evil wave < IMG height = 112 alt =" Homer , Winslow : " src =" http : / / www . theartwolf . com / services / wallpapers / homer _ gulfstream _ th . jpg " width = 150 the ="" 1899 ="" , ="" stream ="" gulf =""> Homer , Winslow : " The Gulf Stream " New York , Metropolitan Museum Choose resolution : 1024 x 768 - 1280 x 800 - 1280 x 1024 - 1440 x 900 - 1680 x 1050 - 1600 x 1200 Really , the terrible expressivity , bordering on macabre of the work makes unnecessary almost every commentary , while we assist helpless to the tragic end of the unlucky sailor , represented with a effective exaggeration , perhaps an evidence of Winslow Homer ' s formation as a press reporter . < IMG height = 112 alt =" Klimt , Gustav : " src =" http : / / www . theartwolf . com / services / wallpapers / klimt _ th . jpg " width = 150 the ="" 1899 ="" , ="" stream ="" gulf ="" forest ="" beech =""> Klimt , Gustav : " Beech forest ", 1903 Neue Galerie der StadtChoose resolution : 1024 x 768 - 1280 x 800 - 1280 x 1024 - 1440 x 900 - 1680 x 1050 - 1600 x 1200 Gustav Klimt ( July 14 , 1862 - February 6 , 1918 ) was an Austrian Symbolist painter and one of the most prominent members of the Vienna Art Nouveau . In 2006 , one of his paintings was sold for $ 135 million , a record price for any painting Leonardo da Vinci : " The Last supper ( detail ) ", 1495 - 97 Milano , Santa Maria della Grazia Choose resolution : 1024 x 768 - 1280 x 800 - 1440 x 900 There is no artist more legendary than Leonardo . In the whole History of Art , no other name has created more discussions , debates and studies than the genius born in Vinci in 1452 . Painter , sculptor , architect , scientific and investigator , the figure of Leonardo has generated multiple legends , myths , and rumours . < IMG height = 112 alt =" Lorena , Claudio de : " src =" http : / / www . theartwolf . com / services / wallpapers / lorrain _ saba _ th . jpg " width = 150 , ="" 1672 ="" saba ="" de ="" reina ="" la ="" con ="" paisaje =""> Leonardo da Vinci : " The Last supper ( detail ) ", 1495 - 97 Milano , Santa Maria della Grazia Choose resolution : 1024 x 768 - 1280 x 800 - 1440 x 900 Claude Lorrain is widely considered as one of the most import ! !! ant landscape paintes of all time , and an import ! !! ant influence in all Romantic painters such as Delacroix , Gericault , or even Joseph Mallord William Turner Macke , Auguste : " Gartenrestaurant " Bern , KunstmuseumChoose resolution : 1024 x 768 - 1280 x 800 - 1280 x 1024 - 1440 x 900 - 1680 x 1050 August Macke is one of the most import ! !! ant painters of the German ｅxpression ! !! ism , and a founder member of the " Der Blaue Raiter " group along with Kandinsky . Macke ' s brilliant career was cut short by his death at the World War I at age 27 < IMG height = 112 alt =" Manet , Edouard : " src =" http : / / www . theartwolf . com / services / wallpapers / manet _ th . jpg " width = 150 the ="" , ="" 1672 ="" saba ="" de ="" reina ="" la ="" con ="" paisaje ="" bergere ="" folies ="" at ="" bar =""> Manet , Edouard : " Bar at the Folies Bergere ", 1882 London , Courtald Institute Galleries Choose resolution : 1024 x 768 - 1280 x 800 - 1280 x 1024 - 1440 x 900 - 1680 x 1050 - 1600 x 1200 Manet ' s paintings of cafe scenes are observations of social life in nineteenth century Paris , and this stunning and complex canvas is one of his most famous masterpieces . Marc , Franz : " The yellow cow ", 1911 New York , Guggenheim Museum Choose resolution : 1024 x 768 - 1280 x 800 - 1280 x 1024 Born in 1880 , Franz Marc was one of the principal painters of the ｅxpression ! !! ist movement . He shows a great interest in nature , represented with bright , vivid colours , as we can see in " The fate of the animals " and " The yellow cow " Michelangelo : Frescoes in the Sistine Chapel , c . 1540 Sistine Chapel Choose resolution : 1024 x 768 - 1280 x 800 - 1280 x 1024 - 1440 x 900 - 1680 x 1050 - 1600 x 1200 The Sistine Chapel constitute one of the supreme masterworks of the universal Art . The scene of " the last judgment ", in which he worked during four years , is a colossal composition in which the vigorous Michelangelo creates a universe of titans , formed by almost sculptural volumes , which help us to understand why the artist signed his works with a " Michelangelo , sculptor " Millais , Sir John Everett : " Ophelia ", 1852 London , Tate Gallery Choose resolution : 1024 x 768 - 1280 x 800 - 1280 x 1024 - 1440 x 900 Sir John Everett Millais was one of the members of the Pre - Raphaelite Brotherhood ( with Dante Gabriel Rossetti , John William Waterhouse and William Holman Hunt ) The subject of this famous painting is taken from Shakespeare ' s Hamlet . Monet , Claude : " Terrace at Sainte Adresse ", 1867 Metropolitan Museum of Art , New YorkChoose resolution : 1024 x 768 - 1280 x 800 - 1280 x 1024 - 1440 x 900 - 1680 x 1050 - 1600 x 1200 The bourgeois scene is developed under a strong " plein air " light . The clear limits between land , sea and sky divide and hierarchies the composition , vertically organized by the two flags fluttered by the ocean breeze . The painting is so delightful that we are immediately tempted to sit on one of the empty chairs to enjoy this sunny Sunday afternoonMonet , Claude : " The cliff walk , Pourville ", 1882 Nationalmuseum , StockholmChoose resolution : 1024 x 768 - 1280 x 800 - 1280 x 1024 - 1440 x 900 - 1680 x 1050 - 1600 x 1200 Between 1881 and 1883 Monet made a series of trips to various coastal towns in Normandy , as Dieppe , Pourville or Trouville . Unlike in former seascapes , Monet seems to focus more on the coastal landscape in the ocean itself , taking advantage of the dramatic nature of the rugged Normandy coast and its spectacular cliffs . Monet , Claude : " Antibes seen from the Salis Gardens ", 1888 Toledo Museum of ArtChoose resolution : 1024 x 768 - 1280 x 800 - 1280 x 1024 - 1440 x 900 - 1680 x 1050 - 1600 x 1200 In 1888 , Monet rented for three months a small castle in Antibes , in the French Riviera . The artists immediately fell in love with the landscape - " so full of light " – of the Mediterranean , and with the turquoise and pink tones of the Mediterranean lightMonet , Claude : " The artist ' s garden at Giverny ", 1900 Yale Art Galleries Choose resolution : 1024 x 768 - 1280 x 800 - 1280 x 1024 - 1440 x 900 - 1680 x 1050 During his last years in Giverny , Monet painted a considerable number of beautiful , charming works depicting his fantastic garden Monet , Claude : " Nympheas ", 1899 Boston Museum of Fine Arts Choose resolution : 1024 x 768 - 1280 x 800 - 1280 x 1024 - 1440 x 900 - 1680 x 1050 Monet ' s series of the " Nympheas " have been described as " The Sixtine Chapel of the Impressionism ". This stunning , almost abstract example is in the collection of the Boston Museum of Fine ArtsPechstein , Max : " Meadow at Mortziburg ", 1910 Leonard Hutton Galleries Choose resolution : 1024 x 768 - 1280 x 800 - 1280 x 1024 - 1440 x 900 - 1680 x 1050 Born in 1881 , Max Pechstein is one of the most famous and appreciated ｅxpression ! !! ist painters . He fully developed his style after knowing the works of Vincent van Gogh . His works were declarated " Degenerated Art " by the Nazis Raphael : " The School of Athens ", c . 1510 / 11 Vatican , Apostolic Palace Choose resolution : 1024 x 768 - 1280 x 800 - 1280 x 1024 - 1440 x 900 - 1680 x 1050 " The School of Athens " is not only Raphael ' s most ambitious work , but also one of the most famous and complex compositions of the Western Painting . The list of portrayed men includes Plato ( represented as Leonardo da Vinci ) , Socrates , Archimedes or Raphael himself ( represented as Apelles ) Rembrandt : " The Night watch ", 1641 - 42 Amsterdam , Rijksmuseum Choose resolution : 1024 x 768 - 1280 x 800 - 1280 x 1024 - 1440 x 900 " The night watch " is one of the most import ! !! ant paintings of the whole history of Art . Rembrandt has represented the exact moment when the captain of the company has order the advance , but this order seems to have not arrived yet to his subordinates . This tension between movement and statism gives the picture an irresistible magnetism . Renoir , Pierre - Auguste : " Moulin de la Galette ", 1876 Paris , Musée d ' Orsay Choose resolution : 1024 x 768 - 1280 x 800 - 1280 x 1024 - 1440 x 900 This painting has been described as " the most beautiful painting of the 19 th century ". The scene depicted one of the numerous dances celebrated in the Moulin de la Galette , one of the most frequented clubs of Montmartre and a paradise for bohemians and artists like Toulouse - Lautrec , van Gogh or Renoir himself . Rousseau , Henri : " The dream ", 1910 New York , Museum of Modern ArtChoose resolution : 1024 x 768 - 1280 x 800 - 1280 x 1024 - 1440 x 900 Incredibly suggestive , " the dream " is a sensational painting that reunites in itself all the magic and fantasy of Rousseau , who explained the work with this suggestive speech : " The woman in the sofa dreams that she has been transferred to this forest and she listens to the sound of the snake charmer . " Seurat , Georges : " Sunday afternoon on the island of La Grande - Jatte ", 1884 - 86 Chicago , Art Institute Choose resolution : 1024 x 768 - 1280 x 800 - 1280 x 1024 - 1440 x 900 - 1680 x 1050 Georges Seurat is one of the most famous post - impressionist painter and . " Sunday afternoon on the island of La Grande Jatte " is his unquestionable masterpiece and a milestone of the late 19 th century Painting . Shishkin , Ivan : " Morning in a pine forest " Tetryakov Gallery , Russia Choose resolution : 1024 x 768 - 1280 x 800 - 1280 x 1024 - 1440 x 900 - 1680 x 1050 - 1600 x 1200 This work is a marvelous pictorial fantasy that goes beyong the pure realism developed by many other Russian painters . Shishkin has chosen one of his favorite motifs , the dense Russian pine forest , adding the unusual and rather bucolic presence of a family of bears Sisley , Alfred : " Bridge at Villeneuve - la - Garenne ", 1872 New York , Metropolitan Museum Choose resolution : 1024 x 768 - 1280 x 800 - 1280 x 1024 - 1440 x 900 - 1680 x 1050 Alfred Sisley always felt an artistic attraction for the fluvial landscape . In that sense , his unquestionable masterworks are a group of canvases , painted in 1872 and 1876 , depicting the floods of the Seine River in the French town of Port - Marly Turner , Joseph Mallord William : " Rain , speed and steam ", 1844 London , National Gallery of ArtChoose resolution : 1024 x 768 - 1280 x 800 - 1280 x 1024 - 1440 x 900 - 1680 x 1050 Born in an aristocratic family , Toulouse Lautrec is known as the great chronist of the 19 th century Paris nightlife . This painting , depicting a night in one of the most famous cabarets of Paris - the Moulin Rouge - is considered as one of his masterpieces . Turner , Joseph Mallord William : " Rain , speed and steam ", 1844 London , National Gallery of ArtChoose resolution : 1024 x 768 - 1280 x 800 - 1280 x 1024 - 1440 x 900 - 1680 x 1050 Turner paints his masterwork in which constitutes an almost impressionist work . The picture is a sensational conclusion to the Turner ' s investigations about light and atmosphere , developed during his time as professor in the Royal Academy . During this time , Turner learned the Newton and Goethe ' s theories about light and colour . Van Gogh , Vincent : " Harvest ", 1888 Amsterdam , Van Gogh Museum Choose resolution : 1024 x 768 - 1280 x 800 - 1280 x 1024 - 1440 x 900 - 1680 x 1050 - 1600 x 1200 This extraordinary and famous work by van Gogh was painted in " plen air ", and shows van Gogh ' s love for the rural life and landscape . Van Gogh , Vincent : " Starry night ", 1889 New York , Metropolitan Museum Choose resolution : 1024 x 768 - 1280 x 800 - 1280 x 1024 - 1440 x 900 - 1680 x 1050 One of van Gogh ' s most brilliant and famous works , commonly associate to his increasing madness , and that actually is the result of the artist ' s interest for the astronomical investigations . Kodera notes that the contrast between the church ' s tower and the effects of the firmament can be interpreted as a critic towards the religious institutionVan Gogh , Vincent : " Field of poppies ", 1889 Bremen , KunsthalleChoose resolution : 1024 x 768 - 1280 x 800 - 1280 x 1024 - 1440 x 900 - 1680 x 1050 This beautiful landscape is a good example of van Gogh ' s final style , with a powerful brushstroke and the use of strong , expressive colours Velázquez , Diego de : " Venus at her mirror ", 1649 / 1651 London , National Gallery Choose resolution : 1024 x 768 - 1280 x 800 - 1280 x 1024 - 1440 x 900 - 1680 x 1050 - 1600 x 1200 Along with Rembrandt , Velázquez is one of the two peaks of the Baroque painting , and this beautiful and sensual painting is one of his masterworks Vermeer : " View of Delft ", 1660 - 61 The Hague , Mauritshuis Choose resolution : 1024 x 768 - 1280 x 800 - 1280 x 1024 - 1440 x 900 - 1680 x 1050 Some critics said that it is perhaps the first impressionist work of the history of the painting . Marcel Proust assured that it is " the most beautiful picture of the world ". The painting is the zenith of the Dutch landscape painting of the 17 th century and , therefore , one of the great landscapes of all time Waterhouse , John William : " The Lady of Shallott ", 1888 London , Tate Gallery Choose resolution : 1024 x 768 - 1280 x 800 John William Waterhouse was one of the members of the Pre - Raphaelite Brotherhood ( with Dante Gabriel Rossetti , John Everett Millais and William Holman Hunt ) . The group have a great influence in the works of J . R . R . Tolkien