The Garden of Earthly Delights is the modern title given to a triptych oil painting on oak panel painted by the Early Netherlandish master Hieronymus Bosch, housed in the Museo del Prado in Madrid since 1939. It dates from between 1490 and 1510, when Bosch was between 40 and 60 years old.

Testing some new paints (Windsor & Newton). :-)

Going old school with new school paint. :-)

Painted Spanish sculpture had flesh tones and realistic wounds and tears and glass eyes, and it gave Protestants the creeps. But here’s the thing: Italian sculptors of the Renaissance also colored their works and were seemingly happy to do so. If we tend to forget this, it may be because the evidence we are looking at has been rigged: painted terracottas of the Renaissance have been stripped of their color, just as innumerable wood carvings of the northern schools have been stripped and “antiqued” in a manner acceptable to past taste and the antiques trade. By James Fenton.

Acrylics on canvas - 60 * 90 cm

Acrylics on canvas - 60 * 80 cm

If you, too, want to appreciate ugliness, the first thing you have to do is stop assuming that it is the inverse of beauty. By Katy Kelleher.

Chooo-San is a Japanese artist who created incredible realistic body art using acrylic paints.    Here are a few samples.

A major investigation into whether art hanging in Dutch museums may have been Nazi loot has yielded an unexpectedly large result: 139 suspect works, including ones by masters like Matisse, Klee and Kandinsky.

For at least 10 minutes Christie’s overflowing salesroom watched in rapt attention as a 1969 triptych by Francis Bacon sold for $142.4 million, described as the highest price ever paid for an artwork at auction.

Just last week, they came spectacularly to a head, with the revelation that Cornelius, the 79-year-old son of Hildebrand Gurlitt, has been found to have been hoarding 1,401 artworks worth an estimated £1 billion at his home in Munich.

Outside Raven, a vegan eatery in Madrid, these exceptional creatives used yellow tape, painted décor items, pineapples and a lamp to create the appearance of an illuminated property that covers both vertical and horizontal surfaces. Reminiscent of Van Gogh’s famous Café Terrace on the Place du Forum, Arles, at Night, the installation calls to mind the current trend for the flat aesthetic.

The story of a labor-of-love masterpiece that lay dormant for nearly half a century.

Very important people line up differently from you and me. They don’t want to stand behind anyone else, or to acknowledge wanting something that can’t immediately be had. If there’s a door they’re eager to pass through, and hundreds of equally or even more important people are there, too, they get as close to the door as they can, claim a patch of available space as though it had been reserved for them, and maintain enough distance to pretend that they are not in a line.

David Hockney and others have speculated—controversially—that a camera obscura could have helped the Dutch painter Vermeer achieve his photo-realistic effects in the 1600s. But no one understood exactly how such a device might actually have been used to paint masterpieces. An inventor in Texas—the subject of a new documentary by the magicians Penn & Teller—may have solved the riddle.

The painting of a woman and boy bowing their heads in prayer set a sales record for Rockwell's art.

Without a doubt, black-velvet painting lives up to its reputation as the pinnacle of tackiness. You could point to any number of cheap, poorly done images of Elvis, scary clowns, matadors, “Playboy” nudes, and strange unicorns sold to American tourists by Mexican painters starting in the ’50s. But when velvet collectors Caren Anderson and Carl Baldwin look at these pieces, they see something else.

An aerosol painting by the anonymous British street artist Banksy was just sold for $209,000 at auction in the largest yet US auction of his work. Called “Flower Girl,” it was only on the market because an enterprising (and also anonymous) gas station owner had the section of brick wall it was stenciled on removed entirely.

The Japanese-based design studio Nendo is the visionary behind this amazing edible art, which was designed as a limited edition item for the Seibu Department store in Japan. The set of 12 chocolates is shaped to look like beautiful tubes of oil paint packaged in a sleek brown gift box. Each tube contains a different flavor syrup, from fruity melon and blueberry to sweet honey and vanilla, that’s meant to match the vivid color on each piece’s wrapper (the only part that isn’t edible).

If you got excited when you saw this list of 100 wall art DIY projects or couldn't wait to try our wire wall writing project then you'll love our latest roundup. These 25 projects are present-perfect and will make any friend or family member thrilled. Not to mention you get the added bonus of giving a thoughtful gift not found in stores!

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A million-dollar drawing by Pablo Picasso was snapped up on Wednesday by a 25 year-old American art lover at a online charity raffle for a mere 100 euros ($140). Jeffrey Gonano said he had been looking for a picture to hang on his living room wall when he read a news article about "L'Homme au Gibus" ("Man with Opera Hat"), raffled by Sotheby's in Paris.

Winter may be the most challenging season for artists to depict. Art critic Jason Farago picks the best works from this frosty period.

Zaria Forman's nearly photorealistic works exquisitely capture the atmosphere and mood of a landscape in flux.

Editing Famous painting

Editing famous painting

Two of Vincent Van Gogh's most iconic paintings have been reunited for the first time in more than 60 years. The bright, yellow paintings of sunflowers will hang side-by-side at London's National Gallery. One painting is already on display in London, the other is on loan from the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam.

Art world watchers are not amused. On Wednesday, the Florida man who was found not guilty of second-degree murder in the Trayvon Martin case, shared his newest work of art with the world when his brother Robert Zimmerman, Jr., tweeted a photo of “Angie,” a red and orange illustration of the special prosecutor involved in his case, Florida State Attorney Angela Corey

The German dealer who left 1,400 works to his son was part of a network of dealers and others in Munich who helped implement the Nazi looting program, conceal stolen works, and sell them after the war

It's hard to beat a spoonful of ice cream or plate of waffles and sticky buns but when it comes to the startling photorealistic paintings of Mary Ellen Johnson you'll be even more tempted to reach ...

When British collector Martin Lang submitted one of his paintings to a French committee, he was hoping to find out if it was an authentic work by Marc Chagall. But not only did the Chagall Committee declare the painting a forgery, it said Lang’s painting should be burned under strict French laws that protect artists’ works.

Note: For the best effect, look at the images before reading the description. Highly-talented  Spanish artist Eloy Morales has done a wonderful job of tricking our visual perception. The artist created a series of strikingly realistic self-portraits that at first look as if the artist simply ...

16" X 20" Acrylic on Canvas

Series is titled simply "London Paintings"