Bypassing the endless figuration-versus-abstraction debate, a trend in blurred painting techniques has emerged. In these ...

For Ruiz Berman, magical realism translates his realities into surreal compositions that are a constellation of references ...

Bruce LaBruce talks his work, his distaste for 'liberal tolerance,' being rejected by queer festivals, and pornography in a ...

Many of these letters are written on different letterheads, including Visva-Bharati, the university Tagore founded in ...

The latest (and current) is “J.M.W. Turner: Romance and Reality,” at the Yale Center for British Art. Its reason for being is the artist’s 250th birthday, and why not?

The home's interior is a living embodiment of Broker's art - a heady mix of feminism, realism and romanticism that balances flawless construction and the bit of sparkle she calls "girl germs." ...

Some realist art emerged in contrast to the preceding Romanticism era, which often idealized its subjects. That approach frequently included in its scope what the artist saw as the rawness and ...

For all his cautious deliberation, Hopper created more than 800 known paintings, watercolors and prints, as well as numerous drawings and illustrations. The best of them are uncanny distillations ...

El Greco’s “Portrait of an Old Man,” believed to be a self-portrait, 1595. Credit: Public Domain The Greek painter El Greco (October 1, 1541 – April 7, 1614) is one of the best known artists in the ...

Realism, as it has thus evolved, more closely approximates to the English variety; it has shed its exuberances and modified its crudities, for it is no longer bemused by the pseudo-science of Zola.

His romantic realism, a hallmark of the Hudson River School, also defines his works portraying the Tappan Zee, Hook Mountain, and the village of Nyack. Davidson, Haverstraw Bay Palmer, A View of the ...

Jack Vettriano, the immensely popular self-taught Neo-Realist artist, who by his own account painted to offer his audience escapism with his nostalgia-fuelled, romantic works, has died aged 73.