WHEN AN OIL painting is dried and finished, it is supposed to stay that way. Yet when Ida Bronken, an art conservator, began to prepare Jean-Paul Riopelle’s “Composition 1952” for display in 2006, she ...

In his 1550 volume Lives of the Artists, painter and architect Giorgio Vasari snuck in praise for the Flemish artist Jan van Eyck in his chapter on the Italian painter Antonello da Messina. Vasari ...

Get your new year off to a colorful start, and join Casey Wicka at the Winona Art Center for oil painting. Classes are held ...

The cliche of the starving artist takes on new dimensions in China’s Van Goghs, a documentary film by father-and-daughter co-directors Haibo Yu and Kiki Tianqi Yu, which takes viewers into the studios ...

Self-taught oil painter Marcus Robins has been honing his craft for three years and hopes his work sparks dialogue and ...

Scientists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology collaborated with the National Gallery of Art and other institutions to study the deterioration of an oil painting, entitled Gypsy ...

NEW YORK, Dec. 19 (Xinhua) -- A solo oil painting exhibition by Chinese artist Zhao Xiaohui opened Wednesday at the Flushing City Town Hall Gallery in New York City, featuring decades of work that ...

Researchers think old masters like Sandro Botticelli, who painted Lamentation Over the Dead Christ, may have mixed egg into their oil paints to alter certain qualities. Fine Art Images / Heritage ...