Nearly 125 years after Pablo Picasso painted a portrait of a sculptor friend, high-tech imaging tools have revealed another portrait hidden beneath it. The concealed image reveals a woman, the ...

Sometimes, a simple scroll can turn into a miraculous discovery. That was the case for British art historian Adam Busiakiewicz, who was scrolling through X when he noticed something that stood out to ...

No, reader, this is not a centuries-old painting of a shotgun wedding. Despite appearances, the woman in green is not believed to be pregnant. Art historians, in truth, have not come to many ...

The mastery of materials is fundamental to the artistic process and the career goal of any artist in their chosen medium. Every method requires a different skill set and can evoke different reactions ...

Exasperated young artists yearning to hit back at their ignorant parents could learn a trick from Joan Miró. Between 1925 and 1927, the Catalan native took a portrait of his mother, Dolors Ferrà i ...

Since their 2018 unveiling at the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, the official state portraits of Barack and Michelle Obama have been a pilgrimage for many, a curiosity for others, an ...

Artist Hugo Crosthwaite fuses portraiture and figurative drawings into dynamic compositions influenced by images from the U.S./Mexico border. Most known for his stop-motion animation and public murals ...

Some exhibitions make you feel inspired, others perplexed. Lucian Freud: Drawing into Painting at the National Portrait Gallery left me feeling battered and bruised – as if I’d been hit by a wrecking ...

NEW YORK — A portrait by Austrian artist Gustav Klimt sold for $236.4 million in New York City on Tuesday, making it the second most expensive piece ever sold at auction and the priciest in the modern ...

Luca Del Baldo, ”Arthur C. Danto” (2010), oil on Belgian linen, 40 x 30 cm (all images courtesy of the artist) The title of the project is The Visionary Academy of Ocular Mentality. You could say that ...

A small Pennsylvania museum has declared that a 17th-century portrait, long considered the work of someone in Rembrandt’s studio, is in fact by the Dutch master himself. After sending the painting ...

René Magritte’s art is famously enigmatic: The Belgian Surrealist is best known for paintings like The Treachery of Images, a depiction of a smoking pipe with the caption that reads, “This is not a ...