--- title: Famous artists, simply (Van Gogh, Kahlo, Picasso, Hokusai, Bilokur, Prymachenko, Qi Baishi...) — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «Famous artists, simply (Van Gogh, Kahlo, Picasso, Hokusai, Bilokur, Prymachenko, Qi Baishi...)», a lesson of the arts course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: Famous artists were real people with real lives, and knowing their story often --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/16-famous-artists-simply/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Arts](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/) / Famous artists, simply (Van Gogh, Kahl… # Famous artists, simply (Van Gogh, Kahlo, Picasso, Hokusai, Bilokur, Prymachenko, Qi Baishi...) Lesson 16 of the arts course of Mova's primary school: 18 sentences, each with its syntax tree and pragmatics. The lessons are written for Mova, and their agreed trees are part of Mova corpus 0.4 (CC BY-SA 4.0). How Mova does on its tests: [the lesson at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/arts/16-famous-artists-simply/). - [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/16-famous-artists-simply/0/) — Famous artists were real people with real lives, and knowing their story often explains their pictures: what they could see, what hurt them, what they loved and what they were allowed to do. - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/16-famous-artists-simply/1/) — Picture Frida Kahlo, badly hurt in a bus crash as a teenager, lying in bed for months with a mirror above her: she painted what she saw, herself, and her self-portraits show pain, Mexican culture and strong feelings. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/16-famous-artists-simply/2/) — Many artists mastered the rules before breaking them: Picasso could draw perfectly at 15 and later chose to break faces into shapes; Qi Baishi made a shrimp come alive with a few ink strokes after years of practice. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/16-famous-artists-simply/3/) — Fame is not fair or quick: Van Gogh sold very few paintings while alive, and for centuries women were often kept out of art schools, so historians are still finding forgotten artists; who liked whose art is often argued, but the dates and facts can be checked. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/16-famous-artists-simply/4/) — People talk about it in their own slang: "bummer" is older US slang for a disappointment, "sus" means suspicious or odd, and a "glow-up" is a big change for the better. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/16-famous-artists-simply/5/) — Van Gogh sold very few paintings and was supported by his brother Theo; he died in 1890 at 37, and his fame grew after his death, helped by Theo's wife Jo. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/16-famous-artists-simply/6/) — Frida Kahlo, a Mexican painter, was badly hurt in a bus crash as a teenager and painted with a mirror above her bed; a self-portrait is a picture an artist makes of themselves. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/16-famous-artists-simply/7/) — Picasso was trained from a young child and could draw very realistically as a teenager; later he developed Cubism with Georges Braque, showing things from several sides at once. - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/16-famous-artists-simply/8/) — Maria Prymachenko was a Ukrainian folk artist from the village of Bolotnia who painted bright, imaginary animals. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/16-famous-artists-simply/9/) — In 2022 a museum near Kyiv holding Prymachenko's work was burned during the Russian invasion, and local people were reported to have saved many of her paintings. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/16-famous-artists-simply/10/) — Qi Baishi was a famous 20th-century Chinese painter of simple ink paintings of shrimps, crabs, birds and flowers; he was a carpenter before becoming a painter, he became famous in his own lifetime, and today his paintings sell for millions. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/16-famous-artists-simply/11/) — Leonardo da Vinci, an Italian of the Renaissance, filled notebooks with drawings of machines, animals, water and the human body; most of his machines were never built. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/16-famous-artists-simply/12/) — The Renaissance was a period of new learning and art in Europe from around 1400 to 1600. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/16-famous-artists-simply/13/) — Michelangelo painted the Sistine Chapel ceiling between 1508 and 1512 standing on a scaffold and bending his head back, not lying down; he wrote a funny poem about his aching neck. - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/16-famous-artists-simply/14/) — Georgia O'Keeffe, an American painter, painted flowers huge so people would really look at them, and later painted animal skulls and hills in the New Mexico desert, where she lived, because she found them beautiful. - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/16-famous-artists-simply/15/) — Jean-Michel Basquiat started as a graffiti writer in New York, painted powerful pictures with words, crowns and faces in the 1980s, became famous young and died at 27. - [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/16-famous-artists-simply/16/) — For centuries women were often kept out of art academies; some, like Artemisia Gentileschi in 1600s Italy, still became famous, and many others were forgotten. - [17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/16-famous-artists-simply/17/) — Hokusai, the Japanese artist of The Great Wave, made thousands of prints and drawings over a long life; Kateryna Bilokur, a self-taught Ukrainian painter, painted incredibly detailed flowers. - ← previous: [Famous paintings and the stories behind them](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/15-famous-paintings-and-the-stories-behind-them/) - next →: [Museums and galleries: how to visit and what is there](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/17-museums-and-galleries-how-to-visit-and-what-is-there/) - ↑ back to [Arts](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/)