Is This the Most Beautiful Painting in the World?
And the Award for Best Picture Goes To ...
Monet Refuses the Operation
Monet was still going gangbusters when his eyesight began to fail.
Of Love, Death and Potted Plants
The Pre-Raphaelite painters put realism at the service of myth, legend, and poetry...
The Surprising History of Pastels
Artists in the 1700s rocked the pastel portrait.
Look on my Works ye Mighty and Despair!
These great paintings sift the sands of time
Wild Geese
You are enough. Whatever you make, keep making it.
Bathing in Mystery
More than 350 years after it was painted, Rembrandt van Rijn's Woman Bathing in a Stream remains as intriguing as it did in 1654.
A Striking Couple
Two paintings that raise the common to the uncommonly beautiful.
What’s Stopping You?
That dreaded inner critic! No one gets a free pass.
Painting with Bugs
Some higher-end pigments, including carmine lake, also known as crimson lake, are still made the old fashioned way: by crushing up bugs.