Vincent van Gogh was a Dutch painter who used vivid colors and wild brush strokes in his paintings. His over 750 paintings, all of them produced during a period of only 10 years, show through their striking color and coarse brushwork the anguish of a mental illness that eventually resulted in suicide. Among his masterpieces are numerous self-portraits and the well-known The Starry Night.

Van Gogh painted bright colors with bold, thick brushstrokes.

Georgia O’Keeffe is famous for her beautiful paintings of flowers. She was inspired by nature and also painted desert landscapes, animal skulls and bones. She lived and painted in both New York City and rural New Mexico and was married to the also famous photographer, Alfred Stieglitz.

One of her favorite techniques was to paint flowers “larger than life”. She changed their scale, enlarging and cropping them until they filled a large canvas. Often, O’Keeffe would “zoom in” on a small, intricate part of a flower until it was no longer recognizable.