Painting as Prophecy

One of the greatest paintings of the 19th century, JMW Turner's The Fighting Temeraire depicts a formerly glorious jewel of the British Royal Navy being towed to "her last berth" for retirement from service and ultimate [...]

By |2025-10-30T13:23:12-04:00October 30th, 2025|

Compose Yourself!

You can learn almost everything you need to know about composition by closely studying successful ones. To that end, we recently invited you, our readers, to send us paintings for our “Compose Yourself!” series of [...]

By |2025-10-28T15:15:32-04:00October 28th, 2025|

On Art and Magic

We know there’s all kinds of good magic in art. Maybe that’s partly why artists over the centuries have created such richly imagined and beguiling scenes of mythological wizards, witches and magicians doing their magical [...]

By |2025-10-21T19:29:43-04:00October 21st, 2025|
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