Year 5 Danube

L.S. Lowry

1887 - 1976

Laurence Stephen Lowry RBA RA was an English artist. Many of his drawings and paintings depict Pendlebury, Lancashire, where he lived and worked for more than 40 years, and also Salford and its surrounding areas.

Lowry is famous for painting scenes of life in the industrial districts of North West England in the mid-20th century. He developed a distinctive style of painting and is best known for his urban landscapes peopled with human figures often referred to as "matchstick men".

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Year 5 Amazon

Claude Monet

1840 - 1926

Claude Monet is one of the most famous painters in the history of art and a leading figure in the Impressionist movement, whose works can be seen in museums around the world.

"For me, a landscape does not exist in its own right, since its appearance changes at every moment; but the surrounding atmosphere brings it to life - the light and the air which vary continually. For me, it is only the surrounding atmosphere which gives subjects their true value."

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Year 5 Nile

Henri Matisse

1869 - 1954

Henri Matisse was a French artist, known for his use of colour and his fluid and original draughtsmanship. He was a draughtsman, printmaker, and sculptor, but is known primarily as a painter.

Matisse is commonly regarded, along with Picasso and Marcel Duchamp, as one of the three artists who helped to define the revolutionary developments in art in the opening decades of the 20th century,

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Year 5 Thames

Gabi Jimenez

Born 1974

Gabi Jiménez has gained a reputation as an important contemporary international artist since 2004. He has exhibited and represented the Gypsy community in the First Gypsy / Roma Pavilion in 2007, and at the 52nd Venice Biennial of Contemporary Art In 2009.

In his colourful paintings in the style of Pop Art, we encounter innumerable small caravans, nature, magical powers and music.