Painters

Photographers, particularly newer ones, tend to only look at photography on the Internet. Instead, we strongly recommend that people head to the best museums and the best art galleries to learn about art in general, and apply those principles to their photography. If they are not near either of the above, go online and look up the National Gallery of Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, the Louvre, Musée d'Orsay, the Tate Gallery, among so many other world renowned museums we could list. Check out the composition of these artists and their use of light and negative space. Listed alphabetically, not in order of preference:

• Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin
• Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci
• Ferdinand Victor Eugène Delacroix
• Winslow Homer
• Édouard Manet
• Henri Matisse
• Claude Monet
• Pablo Picasso
• John Singer Sargent
• Joseph Mallord William Turner
• Vincent Willem van Gogh
• Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn
• Johannes Vermeer
• Andrew Wyeth
• N.C. Wyeth