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40 Hidden Artworks Painted on the Edges of Books
A fore-edge painting is a technique of painting on the edges of the pages of a book. The artwork can only be seen when the pages are fanned.
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Ten Things You Might Not Know About Yayoi Kusama
To coincide with a new major retrospective of her work, we reveal ten little-known facts about the Japanese queen of contemporary art.
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Cycling Guide to Lilliput: Miniature Paintings by Dina Brodsky
Miniature landscape paintings on two-inch plexiglas circles.
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‘Art Is a Force for Life, Not Death’: Clyfford Still on the Power of Painting, in 1976
The pioneer Abstract Expressionist talks about the legends that have grown up around him, his battles with the art establishment, the early days of the New York School, and his gift of 28 paintings to the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
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Kara Walker
On 17 June 2015, a white man opened fire on a prayer group in Charleston, South Carolina, killing nine people. Nine black people, or rather ‘nine more’, as the US artist Kara Walker puts it in an interview with photographer and filmmaker Ari Marcopoulos, published alongside ‘Go to Hell or Atlanta, Whichever Comes First’ – the first of two solo shows across Victoria Miro’s London spaces this autumn. After the shooting, pictures emerged of the gunman posing in front of the Confederate flag –
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Bob Ross - A Walk in the Woods (Season 1 Episode 1)
Bob Ross introduces us to his "Almighty" assortment of tools and colors, tells us that anyone can paint, and creates a landscape of a forest path just after a rain shower.
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This Artist "Paints" With Nanoparticles Inspired by Butterfly Wings
Combining art and science comes naturally to Kate Nichols. The colors in her pieces don’t come from pigment, but from tiny silver nanoparticles suspended in the paint. She makes them herself, as artist-in residence in the University of California, Berkeley’s nanotechnology research group.
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Why Does the CIA Keep Its Art Collection Secret?
Twenty-nine abstract Washington Color School paintings hang in the halls of the CIA’s headquarters in Langley, Virginia. But unless you’re one of the CIA’s undisclosed number of employees, your chances of ever seeing these paintings, or even digital images of them, are pretty slim.
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A Renowned, But Forgotten, 17th-Century Japanese Artist Is Once Again Making Waves
Long neglected, the 17th-century Japanese artist Tawaraya Sōtatsu influenced Western art 400 years later.
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L.A.-based artist Alexa Meade’s 2D paintings reverse the Trompe L’oeil traditional technique
L.A.-based artist Alexa Meade takes the tradition of Trompe L’oeil — the Renaissance painting technique in which objects appear real — and reverses the process, turning the human body into seemingly two-dimensional tableaus and incredible portraits.
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Have I got nudes for you: Emer O’Toole on the art of being naked
After her underarm hair caused a stir on national TV, the writer was asked to pose for a nude painting. The experience led her to wonder why we’re still so shy about the naked human form.
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Download All 36 of Jan Vermeer’s Beautifully Rare Paintings (Most in High Resolution)
Imagine the scene: you uncover a painting stored away in the closet of an elderly relative's home, coated in a blanket of dust so thick you can hardly make out anything but more dust underneath. You slide it out, begin to carefully brush it off, and find two piercing eyes peering out at you.
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Diala Brisly: Paintings of Hope for Syria's Children
Artist Diala Brisly fled Syria in 2013 but she's well known among Syrians for her work on a children's magazine that, amazingly, is still printed in the country, despite the war.
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‘Cave of forgotten dreams’ may hold earliest painting of volcanic eruption
France's iconic Chauvet cave holds mysterious spray-shaped imagery, made around the time when nearby volcanoes were spewing lava. By Ewen Callaway. (Jan. 15)
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Artist Paints With Bacteria, And It’s Oddly Beautiful
A petri dish is her canvas, and the microbes are her paint. By Jacqueline Howard.
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Memories of Paintings
Thomas Blanchard
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Scientists Think They've Figured Out Why Van Gogh's Sunflowers Are Fading
The vibrant colors of many of Vincent van Gogh’s most famous paintings—including his Sunflower series—have been fading over the last 100 years. Now a team of Italian scientists has come up with an explanation as to why the lead chromate dyes favored by the artist when mixing his pigments degrade so much under light. They described their work in a new paper in Chemical Science.
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What It's Like To Be The Only Painter In Antarctica
Making art at the bottom of the world, where paint freezes and the best subjects are millimeters long.
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This artist makes creepy paintings of your beloved childhood TV characters.
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Oil Paintings That Will Make Your Eyes And Brain Hurt
Queen of Double Eyes, that’s how Toronto-based artist Alex Garant introduces herself when she stands next to her mind-bending double vision oil paintings.
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