In honor of Valentine’s Day, we’ve been looking at some art about love. In Part I we marveled at Canova’s “Cupid Awakening Psyche” in the Louvre. Canova’s sculpture depicts a god (Eros, or Cupid in Latin, [...]
Enduring works of art “tease us out of thought,” as the poet John Keats said. No matter how much we think we know about them, they’re never the same twice; every time we come to [...]
I think it's true that great, original art changes the way we see the world. I mean literally changes the visual "reality" of what the world looks and feels like to a given individual.
If you want make good art, make lots of art.
Helen Frankenthaler (1928-2011) broke into the boy’s club of macho mid-century Jackson Pollock-style Abstract Expressionism (AbEx for short), but she’s still not as widely known as her peers.
A good composition establishes dynamic relationships between the elements of a picture. Of the many compositional strategies artists have discovered, one of the simplest and most widely useful is known as the steelyard.
Creative work builds on what came before, and so in a sense there is nothing new under the sun. Except you: No one has the same creative DNA
Did you know that the Olympics once included gold, bronze, and silver medal categories for painting?
There's more to this phrase than you might think.
Want a Matrix-like artmaking download? Try to discover, if you can, why an artist created as they did.
