To paint a portrait from the inside-out means to stop chasing surface detail and start understanding the living structure beneath the skin. This video reveals how true realism begins long before color ...
When oil painter Richard Abraham was growing up on Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, he’d spend time in his local library’s art section. Books on illustration and painting, he recalled, were right next to ...
The Norwegian figurative painter Odd Nerdrum does big, dark, brooding narrative scenes that look like they were painted in the seventeenth century. He has been exhibiting in New York since the early ...
WHEN AN OIL painting is dried and finished, it is supposed to stay that way. Yet when Ida Bronken, an art conservator, began to prepare Jean-Paul Riopelle’s “Composition 1952” for display in 2006, she ...
Nearly 125 years after Pablo Picasso painted a portrait of a sculptor friend, high-tech imaging tools have revealed another portrait hidden beneath it. The concealed image reveals a woman, the ...
A recently discovered painting by the 16th-century artist Lavinia Fontana being offered at a Sotheby’s Old Master sale on Thursday is thought to be a self-portrait of the artist painted while she was ...
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