The painting is as dazzling as it is unsettling, not only by virtue of its monumental size (8' 2 1/2" x 11' 5 7/8") but also its boisterous colors and panoramic view of figures in motion. As your gaze ...

THE French nation has led the world in many movements tending to establish exalted ideals and to uplift mankind ; but at no time in its history have its aims and efforts been more noble or more ...

Installation view of “The Forever Now: Contemporary Painting in an Atemporal World” at The Museum of Modern Art, New York (December 14, 2014-April 5, 2015). Photo ...

There will be a time when the work of women artists has become so pervasive among museum collections that special exhibitions calling attention to their achievements are no longer necessary to balance ...

It is very uncommon for Mondrian’s artworks from his mature period in the 1920 and 1930s to go up for auction. They are usually housed in museum collections, given their significance to the ...

Jenny Saville’s mid-career retrospective at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth features one banger of a painting after another. All hits. “Jenny Saville: The Anatomy of Painting” because Saville (b.

Artistic styles exist only in retrospect. While many of their defining characteristics are formulated in manifestos by pioneering artists, a style can’t be fully understood until it has become a thing ...

The question is, finally: how could there be an effective political art? Is not the whole thing a chimaera, a dream, incompatible with the basic conditions of artistic production in the nineteenth ...

Francisco Goitia, “Zacatecas Landscape with Hanged Men I” (c. 1914) (courtesy the Philadelphia Museum of Art) Ironically, several artists who created celebrated images of the Mexican Revolution did ...

A major exhibition touring Europe argues that modern artists who turned to the dark side were inspired by Gothic art from the Middle Ages. By Nina Siegal Reporting from Helsinki See more of our ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An art handler views Portrait of Elisabeth Lederer by Gustav Klimt during a press preview at Sotheby's in New York City on Nov. 7.

The prehistory of modern painting -- Realism, Impressionism, and early photography -- Post-impressionism -- The origins of modern architecture and design -- Art nouveau -- The origins of modern ...