Brian Blood and Laurie Kersey are what I guess in the art world you’d have to call a power couple. They’re both outstanding professional painters, and together they’re living the sort of creative partnership that [...]

Swedish proto-modernist Edvard Munch (  ) explored many different mediums in his work, and woodblock printing remained one of his constants. The flattened picture plane and simplified forms gave the artist a very direct, uncomplicated forum for [...]

The first comprehensive, international loan exhibition of works by Raphael in the United States is coming to New York next year. This one is going to be a blockbuster – Raphael is generally considered one [...]

Lyn Diefenbach is a realist oil and pastel artist. She’s a master of light and movement, using color, texture and lively drama to convey action and liveliness in her work.  Her florals are vibrant with [...]

It was, as art historian Linda Merrill writes in her book, A Pot of Paint: Aesthetics on Trial in Whistler v. Ruskin, “the most celebrated lawsuit in the history of art.”  As we suggested in [...]

“With almost any creative endeavor, we mistakenly think that we know what translates into success.” – Susan J. Langer Most people look at paintings in galleries and museums and think that artists are special people, endowed with [...]

If portraits seduce, confront, and fascinate us, it’s not least because they put art directly in the service of the human psyche, with all the mysteries that entails. Out of the several genres of realism [...]

Lisa Regopoules is particularly well known for her paintings of specific birds, so when the organizers of Pastel Live invited her to demonstrate a still life, she decided that a “non-traditional still life” was the [...]

To eyes trained on traditional realism, a painting like the above might seem an anxious jumble of shapes and colors. And that’s exactly what it is, but for a good reason: Picasso’s “Night Fishing at [...]

Rocks are hard.  That’s a fact. But painting them gets easier with a few basic principles in mind. Number one pitfall to avoid: making your rocks look like potato sacks. Okay, but how? The following [...]