In 1925, artist Frida Kahlo was involved in a bus accident that permanently damaged her. After this grave accident, Kahlo devoted herself to painting and four years after the accident she painted El Autobus (Bus). Besides the painting includes people of all social status, looking more deeply, the painting seems to refer to the accident that took place in 1925. The woman sitting in the right corner is believed to be Kahlo herself, and the blue working man represents the man who pulled an iron handrail from Kahlo's stomach after the accident. You can see this painting at the Dolores Olmedo Patiño Museum.

The old Guitarist is one of the most expressive works created by Pablo Picasso. Picasso created this painting in 1903 during his ''blue period''. The fact that a skinny man hugs his guitar is square with Picasso's poverty. You can visit this painting at the Art Institute of Chicago.

This painting by Pieter Bruegel shows people's indifference to their surroundings. A mythological character named Icarus makes wings to escape from the labyrinth where he and his father are kept captive. Later, he gets too close to the sun, his wings melts and falls into the water. In the lower right corner of the painting you can see the moment he falling into the water. As Icarus grapples with death, on the other side of the painting life goes on as it is. You can visit this painting at the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium.

“The Gross Clinic”,  Thomas Eakins depicts the moment that Dr. Samual Gross gave a lecture to Thomas Jefferson Medical School students when he was 70 years old. Eakins made this picture under the influence of the medical classes he attended. In the upper right corner, the male in the dark is Thoman Eakins. You can go and see this painting at the Philadelphia Museum of Art.

This oil painting was produced by Edward Hopper in 1942. According to Hopper's claim, the location we see in the painting is real. When we look at the painting, we feel loneliness. Actually that's the meaning of the painting. It reflects the loneliness of the people in the crowd, including today's people. You can go and see this painting at the Art Institute of Chicago.

This painting by Andrew Wyeth depicts the artist's neighbor, who was paralyzed from the waist down. The colors used in the painting and the weakness of Christina's wrist give the painting an apprehensive and gloomy meaning. It is currently exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art in New York.