In the 1950s, Jonah Kinigstein was on the verge of making it big in New York's art world. He won a Fulbright to Rome. His paintings got into the Whitney Museum's annual show of contemporary art (the ...

His later paintings adopted a hotter and more vibrant palette, and his brushwork became freer and more confident. Some paintings seem to glow like stained glass, at least to judge by photos of them.

An artist who swapped haulage for painting has created a special portrait of a longstanding town business. Danny Robinson, ...

Watch as an artist transforms a blank canvas into a mesmerizing semi-abstract portrait. Discover the unique style and techniques that make this artwork truly one-of-a-kind. MS NOW host details ...

From the Mona Lisa to the American Gothic, these famous paintings don’t just grace museum walls; they offer a glimpse into the past and define entire generations. Although most of these masterpieces ...

Luca Del Baldo, ”Arthur C. Danto” (2010), oil on Belgian linen, 40 x 30 cm (all images courtesy of the artist) The title of the project is The Visionary Academy of Ocular Mentality. You could say that ...

Before she even appears in the 1944 film noir classic Laura, Laura Hunt is an obsession for the hardboiled police detective, who is mesmerized with the supposedly dead woman through her portrait. The ...

FOR half a century art critics have undertaken to address not a sophisticated minority like the readers of literary magazines, but the mass of unbelievers to whom twentieth-century art is a mystery or ...

What began as an awkward pose for the Archibald Prize became a meditation on why portrait painting still matters in the age of the iPhone.