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Famous artists: Vincent van Gogh
Who was he? Vincent van Gogh was born in Zundert in the Netherlands in 1853. He had one older brother – also called Vincent – who died at birth, a...

Famous artists: Damien Hirst
Who is he? Damien Hirst was born in Bristol in 1965, and studied at Leeds College of Art and Design before going to Goldsmith’s College in London to...

Famous artists: Michelangelo
Who was he? Michelangelo di Lodovico Buoanarotti Simoni was born in Tuscany in Italy in 1475, and was raised in the city of Florence. He began studying...

Famous artists: Pablo Picasso
Who was he? Pablo Picasso was born in Malaga in Spain in 1881. His father, an art teacher, sent him to the Royal Academy of San Fernando in Madrid when...

Famous artists: JMW Turner
Who was he? Joseph Mallord William Turner was born in London in 1775. By the time he was 15 he had already been accepted into the Royal Academy of Arts...

Famous artists: Andy Warhol
Who was he? Andy Warhola was born in Pittsburgh in the USA in 1928. After studying Commercial Art at the Carnegie Institute of Technology in Pittsburgh...

Recycled art
Get some inspiration from artists turning things most people would throw away into things people would queue in a gallery to see.