ELI5: Explain Like I'm 5

Anders Zorn

So, imagine there was a really good painter named Anders Zorn. He was born a long time ago in Sweden, which is really far away from where we are now. Zorn was very good at painting pictures of people, like when you draw a picture of your family or friends.

Zorn used to use really special colors and techniques in his paintings. He would use bright colors for the things he wanted you to notice the most, and he would use darker colors for things he wanted to be less important. For example, if he painted a lady wearing a pretty dress, he would use bright colors to make the dress stand out and darker colors to make the rest of the picture less important.

People really liked Zorn's paintings. They thought he was very talented and he became very famous! People would even pay lots and lots of money to buy one of his paintings.

Even though Zorn lived a long time ago, people still look at his paintings and appreciate how good he was. Some of his paintings are even in really special museums so everyone can see them.