If one symbol represents love, power, royalty, beauty, sensuality, and mysticism–it is the rose. This slide show will focus on the prominence of roses in Western art from the first millennium BCE to…
Salvador Dalí
Here are eight paintings found in unusual places that turned out to be worth more than anticipated.
Surrealism was one of many art styles that emerged after World War I as artists, alongside the rest of the world, struggled to digest an unprecedented degree of violence and loss.
“A woman had to be a monster to be an artist”– surrealist painter/sculptor Dorothea Tanning
When American painter James Abbott McNeill Whistler’s (1834-1903) portrait of his mother…
Founded in 1879, the Art Institute of Chicago is one of the world’s largest and oldest art…
As temperatures rise to summer highs, one artwork seems to encapsulate our collective torpor better than most: …
Many famous paintings have gone by different names over the years. And the reasons as to why this has happened can be fascinating.
