The brilliant Romanian sculptor Constantin Brancusi worked over 20 years on a series celebrating the theme of a bird in flight. Yet he never sculpted the bird; he concentrated on the animal’s movement, rather than its [...]

“Paint the flying spirit of the bird rather than its feathers.” -Robert Henri   Can you combine rule-breaking wildness with a disciplined and authentic expression of the search for meaning?  A chorus of frustrated painters’ [...]

One look at the paintings of Martin Geiger (b. 1997) and it’s evident where his artistic education took place: the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia, where he earned a certificate after four [...]

Late in his career, American painter Winslow Homer moved to a remote spot next to the ocean, where he painted the turbulent weather and remorseless waves near his home and studio in Prouts Neck, Maine. [...]

How much time and energy do you waste getting caught up in comparing yourself to other artists?  It’s pretty much unavoidable and it’s usually not healthy. However, there are ways to pull yourself out of [...]

NYC-based oil painter Devin Cecil-Wishing shares his thoughts on traditional painting and art as a language in its own world. By Devin Cecil-Wishing “As much as anything, I’m trying to get in touch with a [...]

Much to everyone’s surprise and unending delight, the art world learned of John Constable's celebrated cloud studies after he died, when his daughter bequeathed them to the UK's Victoria Albert Museum. There are around fifty [...]

The Norwegian artist Edvard Munch (1863-1944) is best known for his vivid depictions of love, anxiety, sorrow, and death. Raised in a religious household, and impacted by the early loss of his mother and sister, [...]

By Karen Margulis Early in my art journey I avoided painting wildflowers. I was afraid they would make my landscapes too sweet or too pretty. But the muse kept calling me until finally I embraced [...]