Their previous doorstop biography of a legendary painter, Jackson Pollock: an American Saga (1989), was fact-packed enough to win a Pulitzer yet also riotous enough to inspire a Hollywood biopic.

The film has been described as a "stylized and lyrical coming-of-age portrait of legendary painter, filmmaker, and activist Derek Jarman's artistic, sexual, and political awakening in post-War England."

It was in Paris where he met Guilherme de Santa-Rita (Santa-Rita Pintor), the legendary Portuguese painter.

The photograph isn't great art, but it is a perfect pictorial symbol of Spanish defiance, embodied in the stare of the country's legendary painter.

Take one legendary French painter, in this case a proto-Impressionist whose early masterpieces, "Déjeuner sur l'Herbe" and "Olympia," scandalized Paris with their self-contained female nudes, forthright paint handling and implacable, still palpable sense of newness.

MONMOUTH COUNTY PARK SYSTEM "Claude Monet Painting Class for Children," for younsters 6 to 9, who will create their own work inspired by the legendary painter.

"Cleaning Out Picasso's studio" is his nod to the influence of African artifacts on the legendary painter's work.

Last week, the legendary singer-songwriter Bob Dylan failed to become a legendary painter when charges of plagiarism were levelled against eighteen of his canvases, currently featured in a show at the Gagosian Gallery in New York.

"FRANK STELLA" It's always intriguing to see in which dimension and medium this legendary painter, and now sculptor-architect, will turn up next.

As Barry Lam shows a visitor around the art gallery on the top floor of his corporate headquarters, his gaze keeps coming back to a blue-and-green landscape by the legendary Chinese painter, Zhang Daqian.