French painter Paul Gauguin was one of the earliest practitioners of cloisonnism, a post-Impressionist

style characterized by vivid areas of color separated by dark contour lines.

The Venus of Brassempouy is one of the oldest known representations of the human head. It is a
fragment of what was once a larger figurine, and is probably about 25,000 years old.
Made of glass and metal and designed by I.M. Pei, a pyramid stands before the Louvre, the famed
museum in Paris, France.
The dove represents peace in many artworks. Pablo Picasso, for example, painted a dove for the World
Peace Conference held in 1951.
Pablo Picasso (18811973) was born in Malaga, Spain. He lived in Paris and other parts of France for
much of his working life as a famed artist, however
Peter Faberg was famous for exquisite and ingenious masterpieces of jewelry and china. Best known
were his imperial Easter eggs. Tsar Alexander III of Russia commissioned the first egg in 1884.
Toulouse-Lautrec suffered from health problems that left him disabled for most of his life. Deprived of the
kind of life that a normal body would have permitted, the painter lived wholly for his art.
Through his multimedia work, Andy Warhol pioneered "pop art," or the integration of advertising, comic
books, and other parts of mass culture into fine art.
M.C. Escher (1898-1971), a Dutch artist, is known for lithographs and woodcuts that use realistic details
and geometry to create bizarre conceptual and optical effects.
For French artist Yves Klein's "living brush" paintings, created from the 1950s onward, paint-covered live
models pressed themselves against his canvases, leaving impressions of their bodies.
The man whom many consider to be the first great painter of the Florentine Renaissance died when he
was only 26. His name was Masaccio.
Georgia O'Keeffe, one of the most famous American painters of the 20th century, created numerous
close-up portraits of poppies and other flowers.
The Flemish painter who perfected the new technique of painting in oils, Jan van Eyck produced mostly
portraits and religious subjects on wooden panels.
Pablo Picasso, the Spanish artist, made an ink drawing of the literary figure Don Quixote in 1955. It has
become one of the most famous images of the Spanish knight-errant.


The Bridge of No Return is located in Panmunjom, in the demilitarized zone between North Korea and
South Korea.
Nippon is the official name of Japan. The country, in East Asia, consists of 4 large islands and more than
3,900 smaller islands.
For many years Great Britain ruled it as a colony called Southern Rhodesia. After a period during which it
was known as simply Rhodesia, the country finally achieved independence in 1980. Then it took the
name of Zimbabwe.