"Art evokes the mystery without which the world would not exist." - Rene Magritte One of art's important jobs is to remind us that not everything about our experience of the world is known or [...]

On atmosphere, expressive color, and composition alone, JMW Turner (1775-1851) rocks the house. But the next time you get to stand in front of a painting by the greatest landscape painter of the 19th century, [...]

Occasionally one stumbles onto an artist almost completely unknown outside their home country for no good reasons other than 1. The artist is a woman or 2. No one at the time understood their work. [...]

You KNOW it’s true and you don’t want to hear it again but I’M GOING TO SAY IT ANYWAY: The best way to learn how to paint is to paint. And that means to paint [...]

Western artists have freely celebrated the natural human form since the Renaissance, but seldom have they found as much vibrant beauty within it as French painter Pierre Bonnard.  With a career spanning the nineteenth and [...]

About six months ago, a guest on Antiques Roadshow was shocked to discover that two 19th-century watercolor paintings purchased by her great-grandmother could be worth six figures. The revelation occurred when the hit PBS show [...]

“After great pain, a formal feelin g comes.” - Emily Dickinson Pippa Hale-Lynch’s oil painting, “Grief: Self Portrait with Jam” (featured at the top of the page) has been awarded the Inside Art Award in [...]

Catalan landscape painter Joaquin Mir Trinxet (1873 - 1940) led an ill-fated 19th century crusade to get Spanish artists to embrace modernism without letting go of Spain’s proud realist tradition. Gloriously successful as art, the [...]

It’s winter. Brittle, bitter days rattle the windowpanes and ice the driveways. In paintings though, there is no time nor change; there, the May winds linger still, and the fruit trees blossom in a perpetual [...]

For a long time, acrylics had its devotees and its detractors – either you loved them or you avoided them, mostly because they dry super-fast. However, newer trends have enabled acrylics to behave more like [...]