The Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery has announced Brooklyn-based artist Kameron Neal as the first-prize winner of the seventh national Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition. Neal’s two-channel ...
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 ...
A Gustav Klimt portrait painting that helped save the life of its Jewish subject during the Holocaust has sold for $236.4 million (€204m), breaking a record for a modern art piece which was previously ...
The central question of portraiture is how to best turn its subjects inside out — how to best manipulate an inanimate medium so as to capture an animate sitter with a hidden history of invisible ...
The remarkable Roman Egypt-era work represents some the earliest realistic portrait paintings still in existence today.
Much of our understanding of history comes from written accounts, but it is art and photography (and notably portraits) that really brings these people and events to life. Take the 18th-century ...
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. (Alexi Rosenfeld/Getty Images) A painting by Gustav Klimt just became ...
The painter Nieves González reworks Baroque-era painting codes with contemporary sitters in puffer coats, pool inflatables, ...
(AP) - A Gustav Klimt portrait painting that helped save the life of its Jewish subject during the Holocaust sold Tuesday for $236.4 million, a record for a modern art piece. Klimt’s “Portrait of ...
NEW YORK — A portrait by Austrian artist Gustav Klimt sold for $236.4 million in New York City on Tuesday, making it the second most expensive piece ever sold at auction and the priciest in the modern ...
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