Emerging in the 20th century, French American artist Louise Bourgeois’ career spanned over seven decades. She was associated with various art movements like Surrealism and Feminist art but became a...
Having witnessed Abstract Expressionism, Conceptual, and Pop art, painter David Hockney is arguably Britain’s greatest living artist and undeniably the most popular artist in the world. Even before homosexuality was...
American photographer Ansel Adams is one of the most revered figures of landscape photography. Throughout his roughly 60-year career as a fine art and commercial photographer, Adams explored and recorded...
French painter, printmaker, draftsman, and illustrator Henri Marie Raymond de Toulouse-Lautrec-Monfa was one of the most influential artists of the 19th-century Avant-Garde. During the post-Impressionist and Art Nouveau eras, Toulouse-Lautrec...
In the 1880s, a new artistic style emerged when American artists began painting their landscapes with subtle tones of colored atmosphere. A decade later, American art critics started using the...
Jean Michel Basquiat always knew that he’d become a famous artist. Even before he became world-famous, he had already been making a name for himself in the New York City...
Colors carry significant meaning. In the hands of monochromatic artists, color can affect viewers and even alter the course of history. It’s no wonder then, that some artists have chosen...
The Old Guitarist (1903) was made towards the end of what has come to be known as Picasso’s Blue Period. The painting itself is not particularly radical but it does...
Collage Artwork existed long before there was a modern term to describe it. It has been used by a wide range of artists because of its capacity for abstraction and...
Non-objective painting was born long before the Abstract Expressionist movement, but the Color Field school of painting emerged in the 1950s and has since found followers from around the world....
Katsushika Hokusai is often credited as the most famous Japanese artist in the world. His prints were sought after throughout his life until this very day. Without Hokusai’s daring imagination...
Critics once accused Edvard Munch of making slapdash art. Nothing could be further from the truth. The isolated Munch artist cared so much about the works that he treated them...
Nowadays, we could take for granted that Hispanic artists are those who live and work in Spanish-speaking countries. But that definition is complicated by the careers of artists like Pablo...
Eugène Delacroix enjoyed a long career and was one of the most influential artists of the 19th century. His bold use of color was as captivating as his thorough and...
Neo-impressionism art began when Georges Seurat and a number of his colleagues proposed a new approach to color and light perception in painting. They based their techniques on revolutionary scientific...
Contrapposto was discovered by the ancient Greeks. The contrapposto definition of the Italian word (Italian Pronunciation: ) is “counterpose”. The earliest sculptures that depict the human body in this pose...
Polish artist Zdzisław Beksiński was known for his artworks that featured the theme of dystopian surrealism in his paintings, photography, and sculptures. Beksiński's artworks such as his surreal horror art...
We are sure that you have seen artwork that looks incredibly realistic, artwork that leaves you thinking how the artist managed to pull it off. This is known as hyperrealism...
