"Oriental Beauty," an exhibition at Yuyuantan Park in Beijing, showcases traditional female figures as portrayed in ancient ...

Known as the father of modern Chinese art and famed for his horse paintings, Xu Beihong blended Western techniques with ...

It's easy to interpret the large, dark paintings of Mark Rothko's final months as bleak, the work of an artist whose long struggle with ill health and depression ended when he took his own life in ...

For Iranian artist Arghavan Khosravi, depicting hair in her paintings has become charged with emotion. She posted a video on Instagram in early October that showed her sweeping a paintbrush across the ...

We think of Johannes Vermeer as a meticulous detailer of the everyday. But his paintings and those of his contemporaries have more to do with each other than life in the Dutch Republic, writes ...

Beleaguered catfish, sword-wielding dogs and armored rodents commit acts of violence, malice and mischief, their expressions contorted, their eyes bloodshot and yellow, their faces sometimes partly ...

The paintings are pictured in a directory of property looted in France between 1939 and 1945. General Secretariat of the Ministry of Culture of France / Monuments Men and Women Foundation The auction ...

The Lake, Petworth: Sunset, Fighting Bucks, painted by J.M.W. Turner around 1829, was one of several works studied to see if there was a connection between the colors used in the image and volcanic ...

Transform your living space with the timeless elegance of Vincent Van Gogh. We review the 5 best Van Gogh paintings and wall ...

According to new research published by psychiatry professor Stephen M. Stahl, artist Jackson Pollock clearly incorporated images into his pre-drip paintings and repeatedly used the same images in ...

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 ...

Legendary songwriter Bob Dylan is once again at the center of a controversy about plagiarism, but this time it's not about his words or his music — it's about his painting. The Asia Series, Dylan's ...