The Ten Most Famous Paintings of All Time (Part I)
It is not strange that individually we have our favorite works or painters; also when it comes to surveys, we have a list with our own paintings and famous painters. Unfortunately, in this choice is not our individual appreciation, but that of all, specialists or not, who have put each of these works in the place of honor they are. It is worth saying that I made this decision by reviewing some pages and selecting only those works that were repeated. I must say that the fact that they are famous paintings does not necessarily mean that they have to be the best quality, the most complex or the largest. In this case they are famous paintings because they are the most well known, the ones that many of us, without being experts, can identify among thousands; they have become popular icons. In this first part we will bring only 5, then in the next delivery, the remaining 5. Let's stop talking and start with the list:
IN POSITION 10: Guernica
Guernica is a large painting painted in oil in 1937 by the Spanish painter, sculptor and poet Pablo Picasso, who did it in 7 weeks. It is considered one of the most important paintings of the 20th century and of the painter's career, due to its political message mixed with Surrealist, Cubist and Expressionist styles that make it unique. El Guernica is a painting commissioned by the Spanish Republic for the 1937 Paris International Exposition. The idea was to try to bring international opinion closer to the republican cause by projecting a good cultural image.
The mural is currently in the Museo de Arte Reina Sofía in Madrid, Spain, measuring 349.3 cm high x 776.6 cm wide.
IN POSITION 9: The Birth of Venus
The birth of Venus 1483-1484 (in Italian: Nascita di Venere), is a painting by Sandro Botticelli, and represents one of the masterpieces of the Italian master. It is executed in tempera on canvas and measures 278.5 centimetres wide by 172.5 cm high (it is enormous). He was saved from the flames of the Bonfire of the Vanities in 1497. In that year, followers of the monk Girolamo Savonarola collected and publicly burned thousands of objects considered sinful and this painting was one of those saved. The painting has a strong feminine content. This can be seen in the shell that occupies the central part of the work and that represents the female genitals. This image is directly identified with the birth of all human life. It is preserved in the Uffizi Gallery, Florence.
IN POSITION 8: The Persistence of Memory
The Persistence of Memory, also known as The Soft Clocks, is a famous painting by the Spanish painter Salvador Dalí painted in 1931. Made using the technique of oil on canvas, is surrealist in style and is smaller than you can imagine, as its measures are 24 x 33 cm. It is said that The Persistence of Memory was painted in the middle of a hallucination. This work is considered a clear example of Dalí's work in which the deconstruction of the situation and the objects shows the relationship that exists between the real and the imaginary. It is conserved in the MoMA (Museum of Modern Art) in New York, where it arrived in 1934 as a donation from Helen Lansdowne Resor.
IN POSITION 7: The kiss
The Kiss (Der Kuss) was painted in 1908 with oil and gold leaf by the Austrian painter Gustav Klimt, of the Art Nouveau era. Using the same oil painting technique, Klimt created his work by combining mosaics and decorations against a mysterious golden background. This painting was exhibited and purchased in 1908, before its author completed it. The Austrian Gallery was the first to show it, and the Belvedere Museum soon included it in its collection. There are those who see in the work a perfect embodiment of the eternal love between both sexes, with a clear domination on the part of man and a surrender of it. The painting The Kiss measures 1.8 meters high by 1.8 meters long and is currently in the Belvedere Gallery at the Belvedere Palace in Vienna, Austria.
IN POSITION 6: The naked maja
The nude Maja is one of Francisco de Goya's most famous works. The painting is a commissioned work painted before 1800, in a period that would be between 1790 and 1800 and formed a couple with La Maja Vestida. Both paintings portray the same beautiful woman lying placidly on a bed and looking directly at the observer. Probably commissioned by Manuel Godoy, who since 1795 had become Goya's patron, this singular work is Goya's only female nude at a time when this genre was forbidden by the Inquisition. Few female nudes have given rise to as much literature as this one, to which the romantic legend of the model's identity has contributed, as she identified herself for a time with the Duchess of Alba, and also with Pepita Tudó, Godoy's lover. This work, painted with the technique of oil on canvas, has a size of 98 cm x191 cm and is located in the Prado Museum, Madrid, Spain.
Surely, dear reader, you have your own list of famous works. Remember that any selection sometimes responds to personal mechanisms, individual tastes. Do you think there is someone who doesn't deserve to be on this honor roll? What are the top 5 on the list? I'd like to know your opinion! For now, vote for 
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