Ludwig van Beethoven

Andy Warhol
Beethoven [II.391], 1987
Screenprint on Lenox Museum Board.
40" x 40"

I love to listen to music. I especially enjoy an excellent symphony orchestra. Ludwig van Beethoven, pictured above, was a German composer and pianist of extraordinary talent. After moving to Austria, Beethoven studied with Franz Joseph Haydn who was one of the most prominent composers of the Classical period. Beethoven shares the legacy of being the most famous classical composer of the western world with Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791). Beethoven is remembered for his powerful compositions and for continuing to compose and conduct even after he began to go deaf at age 28.

Robert Rauschenberg

Robert Rauschenberg
American, born 1925





Soviet/American Array III, 1988
photogravure
223.5 x 134.6 cm
(88 x 53 in.)



Robert Rauschenberg began to integrate waste products from modern American everyday life into his pictures in the 1950s. This was when the famous "combine" paintings (so called because they were neither painting nor sculpture, but both) were produced. Experimentation with magazine and newspaper photographs created a groundbreaking new form of expression. To view more works of art by Robert Rauschenberg and other famous artists, please visit the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC.

Gustave Caillebotte

Gustave Caillebotte
French 1848-1894


Paris Street; Rainy Day, 1877
Oil on canvas
212.2 x 276.2 cm


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