The artist opens a portal through which a viewer can observe the artist’s perspective of the world. The history of the discipline of mark making offers a multitude of perspectives from which all ...

Live illustration is giving wedding favors a fresh, personal twist, turning guests into works of art created in real time.

Created by Swiss painter Arnold Böcklin, the haunting work still has some secrets. Arnold Böcklin, Isle of the Dead (1883). Collection of the Staatliche Museen, Berlin. Photo: Fine Art Images/Heritage ...

The painting and drawing areas at Smith explore contemporary art practices through a wide range of stylistic approaches that emphasize what makes each medium so exciting. We have two dedicated ...

Van der Weyden’s depiction of Saint Luke is a meditation on attention as much as painting I often study the expression on the face of Saint Luke in this masterpiece by Rogier van der Weyden at ...

Daniel Douke, :Delacroix Study” (2012), acrylic and pencil on paper, 18 X 12 inches (image courtesy of the artist) I first wrote about Daniel Douke’s astonishingly meticulous replications of ordinary ...

Every year, billions of dollars’ worth of art passes through international auction houses, while leading museums each hold tens of thousands – even hundreds of thousands – of artworks in their ...

Archaeologists believe they have discovered the world’s oldest-known representational artwork: three wild pigs painted deep in a limestone cave on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi at least 45,500 ...

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After two years of traveling, “Madame X” — the iconic 1884 portrait by John Singer Sargent — has returned to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, where it’s the star of a new exhibit ,”Sargent and Paris,” ...