Their drawings and paintings often express a mix of horror, fear, hope and beauty.
Articles on Painting
Displaying 61 - 80 of 185 articles
It has been tradition for soldiers to have a drink with Chloé at the Young and Jackson Hotel since the first world war.
The ‘fool the eye’ cakes hearken back to popular paintings from another period in American history when there was anxiety over fakes, fraudsters and misinformation.
The journal of a Pre-Raphaelite writer might help explain today’s turn to spiritualism.
Jeffrey Smart is admired for his carefully structured paintings of Tuscany and Rome. This National Gallery of Australia’s centenary celebration of his birth takes the viewer back to Adelaide.
Breathless headlines of artificial intelligence discovering or restoring lost works of art ignore the fact that these machines rarely, if ever, reveal one secret or solve a single mystery.
Researchers have long tried to unravel the puzzle of Jan van Eyck’s use of perspective in his masterpiece, the Arnolfini Portrait. New research suggests he may have had help from a novel machine.
Art is a risky investment, with estimated long-run returns, on average, below stocks. But investing in artworks may provide diversification to an investment portfolio, as well as enjoyment.
A special gallery in London’s Kew Gardens allows the visitor to travel the world via the 800-plus detailed paintings of Marianne North, Victorian-era adventurer and botanical artist.
Beyond creativity and thinking skills, arts education will help you enhance your communication and expressive skills, as well as boosting your confidence and self-esteem.
Gallerist and writer Robert Huggins and his wife, the artist Helen Lieros, have passed away. But their lives are a testament to what kind of impact one African art gallery can have.
The once secret paintings of Hilma af Klint are a revelation both for their beauty and for highlighting the impact of spiritualism on how artists see the world.
The reproduction of Leonardo da Vinci’s work is set to fetch a lot at auction. But why would a fake cost so much?
In its centenary year, the Trustees of the Art Gallery of New South Wales could not resist the symbolism of awarding the Archibald Prize to Peter Werner’s portrait of the 100 year old Guy Warren.
It’s 100 years since the Art Gallery of NSW first held the Archibald Prize. Though loathed by some critics, it is an annual snapshot of the kind of society we are, and who our heroes might be.
The Archibald Prize celebrates its centenary with a list of finalists that includes plenty of artists’ portraits and some notable change makers.
For decades the donated painting was proudly displayed as an original. But then the university began an academic unit that tests the authenticity of artworks and objects…
The style and date given for the painted room never sat right with MA Katritzky, who spent lockdown investigating whether the room was actually created by one of Britain’s greatest painters.
How does rock art matter? New research finds it can act as a kind of intergenerational media –even when no longer visible to the eye.
Not everything that was painted can be taken as fact.
Top contributors
-
Joanna Mendelssohn is a Friend of The Conversation.Honorary Senior Fellow, School of Culture and Communication, The University of Melbourne
-
Honorary Professor, Edith Cowan University
-
Adjunct Professor of Art History, Australian National University
-
Ruth Coulter Heede Professor of Art History, Case Western Reserve University
-
Associate Professor in History of Art, University of Nottingham
-
Personal Chair of 19th-Century Art, History of Art, University of Edinburgh
-
Lecturer, School of Art & Design, Nottingham Trent University
-
Lecturer in MA Creative Media Practice, University of the West of Scotland
-
Senior Lecturer in History of Art, The Open University
-
Professor, The University of Melbourne
-
Professor in Art History, University of Sydney
-
Professor of History and Policy, University of Westminster
-
Professor of Computer Science and Director of the Art & AI Lab, Rutgers University
-
Master of Art in Gallery and Museum Management Program Director, Western Colorado University
-
Honorary fellow of the Grimwade Centre for Cultural Materials Conservation, The University of Melbourne