From Pop art icons Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein to master of Arte Povera Michelangelo Pistoletto, these 20th Century artists transformed the genre of portraiture. Andy Warhol, Letter to the World ...

Inviting fresh attention from the art world is a group of fiercely independent artists who flourished in Chicago over the last century, especially in the 1960s and 1970s, when a sense of grit and ...

A general interest in abstraction is being reborn, both in the superficial form of the movement towards the spiritual, and in the forms of occultism, spiritualism ...

It seems strange to say, but to understand the work of one of the most important Abstract Expressionists of the mid-20th ...

The nude — the aestheticized human body laid bare — has been a fundamental element of Western painting since the 15th century. Renaissance painters were inspired initially by the idealized sculptures ...

(Insert) ''The Dead Girl,'' by artist Juan Soriano, 1938, on display at the Philadelphia Art Museum’s new exhibit, ''Elegy.'' (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY) The phrase “Rest in Power” is a relatively recent ...

Gertrude Greene was not an obvious choice to become a radical force in American abstract art. She was a woman born in 1906 to middle-class department store owners in Brooklyn. She was also a ...

Do artists and scientists see the same thing in the shape of trees? As a scientist who studies branching patterns in living things, I’m starting to think so. Piet Mondrian was an early 20th-century ...

Do artists and scientists see the same thing in the shape of trees? As a scientist who studies branching patterns in living things, I’m starting to think so. Piet Mondrian was an early 20th-century ...

The Soviets were the first to tyrannize art. While at the beginning of the Russian Revolution, modern art also was seen as a revolution and therefore was accepted, soon afterward it was rejected as ...