From the Mona Lisa to the American Gothic, these famous paintings don’t just grace museum walls; they offer a glimpse into the past and define entire generations. Although most of these masterpieces ...

Wordsmith World publishes a religious romance retelling of the biblical story of Ruth and Boaz, targeting Christian women readers who seek faith-based fiction with biblical integrity and romantic ...

Gagosian has unveiled plans for a major Jasper Johns survey in New York, spotlighting his "Crosshatch" and "Corpse and Mirror ...

In the 1780s, French painter Pierre Henri de Valenciennes produced a landscape of the Channel coast. To do so, he painted not from memory or from a sketch, but directly from the source—by stepping ...

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There are many variations to look for in scenes of landscape paintings, particularly in images that depict sunset, twilight and moonlight.

Using a pinhole camera, she captured miniature landscapes that she had fashioned to resemble surreal versions of 19th-century ...

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Her undulating looped-wire sculptures and drawings of flowers hint at personal depths, in a major retrospective at MoMA. Critic’s Pick Her undulating looped-wire sculptures and drawings of flowers ...

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