Art History

The Best Secret of the Masters

Robert Maynord | Posted 05.22.2012

Read More: Flemish Painting, Art Materials, Sinopia Museum, Sinopia, Pisa Italy, Iron Oxide, Art History, Arts News
Robert Maynord

Like the Lascaux drawings, these have held up over centuries. Iron oxide pigments are a perfect match for painting. Many of the old masters such as Rubens, Rembrandt, and Franz Halls never used more than five to seven colors, mostly iron oxides.

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An Oil Painter's Process

Tad Spurgeon | Posted 05.21.2012

Read More: Oil Painting, Painting Tips, Painting, Artistic Process, Starch Gel, Art History, Process, Turpentine, Rembrandt, Solvent Safety, Arts News
Tad Spurgeon

As an oil painter, I had always been interested in the craft of the materials. But after fifteen years of painting, it began to seem like I was workin...

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Female Genitalia Carvings Are Europe's Oldest Rock Art

Posted 05.14.2012

Read More: Video, Vulva, French Cave Art, Art History, Randall White, Aurignicians, Female Genitalia, European Cave Art, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Fertility, Amazing Caves, Abri Castanet, Arts News

By: Stephanie Pappas, LiveScience Senior Writer Published: 05/14/2012 03:09 PM EDT on LiveScience The oldest rock art ever found in Europe revea...

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25 Years in 200 Artworks

Posted 05.12.2012

Read More: Daniel Birnbaum, Video, Phaidon Press, Art History, Art Book, Contemporary Art, Slideexpand, Defining Contemporary Art, Arts News

The discipline of conventional history has attempted over the years to classify the trajectory of the art world into neatly constructed movements and ...

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Not to Be Missed Japanese Paintings at the National Gallery of Art

Barbara Ernst Prey | Posted 04.30.2012

Read More: Birds, White House, Museum, Flowers, Exhibit, Artist, Cherry Blossoms, Washington DC, United States, American, Western Art, Shuttle Discovery, National Gallery of Art, Asia, Painting, Watercolors, New York, Japan, Nature, Nasa, Culture, Chinese Brush Painting, Art, Art History, Japanese Art, National Endowment for the Arts, Arts News
Barbara Ernst Prey

One of Japan's most celebrated cultural treasures, "Colorful Realm: Japanese Bird-and-Flower Paintings" by Itō Jakuchū (1716-1800) is on view at the National Gallery of Art in Washington through April 29.

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Timing Is Everything

Darryl Starr | Posted 04.25.2012

Read More: Buried Life, US Military, Art, The Buried Life, Bucket List, Art History, Books News
Darryl Starr

This entry is part of a contest by HuffPost Books and The Buried Life. Click here to read more about it. I smiled and felt really good, after readin...

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Artist Interview: Jesse Bransford

Kari Adelaide | Posted 04.24.2012

Read More: Slidepollajax, Symbolism, Planets, Astronomy, Astrology, Brooklyn, Art, New York City, Art History, Arts News
Kari Adelaide

For the past eight years, Jesse Bransford has systematically engaged with ancient visual symbols and the cultural lore surrounding the seven classical planets. 2012-04-24-JesseBransfordpic.png

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Rare Paul Revere Print Found

AP | Posted 04.12.2012

Read More: Paul Revere, Art Discovery, Paul Revere Print, Brown, American History, Art History, Revolutionary War, Arts News

PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- A rare engraved print created by Paul Revere has been found in a 19th century book at Brown University. A university preservation...

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Getting Lost at the Museum of Fine Arts

Zoe P. Strassfield | Posted 04.02.2012

Read More: Boston, Science, Native Americans, Archeology, Boston University, Colonial America, History, Paintings, Art History, Art, Art Museums, Museum of Fine Arts, Aztec Art, Mayan Art, Native American Art, Boston Museums, College News
Zoe P. Strassfield

That's what I love about museums -- every artwork or display is a window into another place, another time or another way of thinking.

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Carolyn Castano's Bedazzled Narco-Wars

The Huffington Post | Priscilla Frank | Posted 05.11.2012

Read More: Andy Warhol, Reclining Nude, Narco Venus, Henri Rousseau, Nude, Carolyn Castano, Memento Mori, Art History, Lisa Frank, Walter Maciel Gallery, Narco-Wars, Carolyn Castano Walter Maciel Gallery, Los Angeles Art, Female Artists, Slidepollajax, Latin American Art, Arts News

Carolyn Castano explores the narratives of the narco-wars in Latin America, highlighting the female roles in a male-dominated world of violence, polit...

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They Wrote Too??!

Posted 03.12.2012

Read More: Andrew Wyeth, Art Books, Artist Autobiographies, Art History, Diego Rivera, Yayoi Kusama, Vincent Van Gogh, Frank Lloyd Wright, Slidepollajax, Artist Biographies, Amazon, Arts News

We know that you've probably read an artist's biography or two, but have you ever read artists' own account of their lives? Let us provide you with th...

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New Islamic Art Film Premieres in Chicago

Daniel Tutt | Posted 04.30.2012

Read More: Art History, Islamic Art, Islamic Art Documentary, Islamic Art Film, Islamic Architecture, Islamic Art Mirror of the Invisible World, Video, Chicago News
Daniel Tutt

A new documentary film, Islamic Art: Mirror of the Invisible World seeks to present some of the riches of Islamic artistic contributions to an American audience.

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Actor Michelle Williams' Uncanny Marilyn Wins Award Noms

Brad Balfour | Posted 04.04.2012

Read More: Class System, Academy Awards, The Prince the Showgirl and Me, Prep School, Theater, Art Historian, Michelle Williams, Eddie Redmayne, John Logan, London, Marilyn Monroe, England, Castle, Film Director, The Prince and the Showgirl, Method Acting, Film Industry, Kenneth Branagh, Award Noms, Fairytale, Kent, Colin Clark, Hollywood, New York, Simon Curtis, My Week With Marilyn Movie, Oscar Award, Laurence Olivier, Savage Grace, Actor, Art History, Camera, Vivien Leigh, Entertainment News
Brad Balfour

Who knew that when actress Michelle Williams first appeared as the bad girl in Dawson's Creek, she would have the uncanny good sense to take on roles ...

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The Oldest Found Work Of Art Ever!

Posted 02.09.2012

Read More: Cave Art, Oldest Painting, Video, Earliest Painting, Spanish Cave Paintings, Archaeology, Art History, Neanderthal Painting, Arts News

You thought art history was limited to human beings? Well, think again. A recently discovered painting in Spanish caves in Costa Del Sol was found ...

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Prints and the Pursuit of Knowledge

Jane Chafin | Posted 04.02.2012

Read More: Art, Prints, Albrecht Durer, Video, Art History, Prints and the Pursuit of Knowledge in Early Modern Europe, Harvard, Engraving, Printmaking, Arts News
Jane Chafin

2012-02-01-Screenshot20120201at4.57.27PM.jpgThis catalog delivers a fascinating look at the scientific technology of the sixteenth century and the celebrated artists who participated in it.

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Looking Closer At Absence

The Huffington Post | Priscilla Frank | Posted 05.11.2012

Read More: Slideadbigshot, Avant Garde, John Cage, African American History, Miles David, Jazz, Modernism, Art History, Postmodernism, Jennie Jones, Jones, Jennie C. Jones, Sound Art, Barack Obama, Black History Month, Arts News

Jennie C. Jones' works address absence. Yet instead of treating absence as pure lack, Jones explores its texture, its logic, its intention, its residu...

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Now Dig Kellie Jones Talking About Art and Black Los Angeles: Part 2

Dr. Tukufu Zuberi | Posted 03.13.2012

Read More: Black-Los-Angeles, Black America, Black Artists, Race, Kellie Jones, African-American History, Culture, Art, African American Art, Columbia University, Arts News, Art History, Hammer Museum, African Dictators, Amiri Baraka, African Americans, Black Culture, African-American Issues, Bv-Life, Black Voices Life, Video, Black Voices News
Dr. Tukufu Zuberi

I recently visited an art exhibit chronicling the legacy of art in Black Los Angeles. The show is called "Now Dig This! Art & Black Los Angeles 1960-1980, " and I sat down to speak with the curator of the exhibit, Kellie Jones. Here's the second part of that conversation.

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PHOTOS: Art's Best Bling

Posted 01.10.2012

Read More: Kanye West, Titian, Renaissance, J Lo, Vermeer, Lil Wayne, Girl With the Pearl Earring, Henry VIII, Medici, Aristocracy Portraits, Hip Hop, Art History, Bling, Lil Kim, Ice, Slidepollajax, Portraits, Arts News

Notorious B.I.G. once said "Mo money, mo problems," and no one knows this quite like the Medici family. The ruling patrons of 14th century Florenc...

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Now Dig Kellie Jones Talking About Art and Black Los Angeles

Dr. Tukufu Zuberi | Posted 03.10.2012

Read More: Black-Los-Angeles, Black America, Black Artists, Race, Kellie Jones, African-American History, Culture, Art, African American Art, Columbia University, Arts News, Art History, Hammer Museum, African Dictators, Amiri Baraka, African Americans, Black Culture, African-American Issues, Bv-Pop-Culture-Entertainment, Black Voices News
Dr. Tukufu Zuberi

I recently visited an art exhibit chronicling the legacy of art in Black Los Angeles. The show is at the UCLA Hammer Museum and is called "Now Dig This! Art & Black Los Angeles 1960-1980." I sat down to speak with the curator of the exhibit, Kellie Jones.

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PHOTOS: The 10 Best Paintings Of Jesus Ever

Posted 12.25.2011

Read More: Dali, Leonardo, Mantegna, Serrano, Art History, Jesus, Christmas, Michelangelo, Religious Art, Best Jesus in Art, Velazquez, Pontormo, Giotto, Goya, Arts News

Christmas is upon us, and what better way to celebrate then by shuffling through a slideshow of Jesus in all of his many forms? Some are baby, some ar...

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Nefertiti: What Is Seen Cannot Be Un-seen

Andrew Blackmore-Dobbyn | Posted 02.08.2012

Read More: Nefertiti, King Akhenaten, Ancient Egypt, Thutmose, Sculpture, Queen Nefertiti, Nefertiti Bust, Audrey Hepburn, Berlin, Egyptian Museum, West Berlin, Art History, Famous Sculptures, Arts News
Andrew Blackmore-Dobbyn

Thutmose perfectly captured Queen Nefertiti at the apex of her power and the peak of her beauty and so it is to him that she owes her eternal fame and in creating this work of art, Thutmose in turn lays claim to his place among the greatest artists in human history.

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New Archive Gives Insight Into Hitler's Taste In Art

ARTINFO | Posted 01.29.2012

Read More: Art, Adolf Hitler, Hitler, Nazis, Artinfo, German Art History, World War 2, Art History, Hitler Art, Nazi Party, Richard Wagner, Wagner, Nazi Germany Art, Fuhrer, Arts News
ARTINFO

Richard Wagner was his favorite composer and Arno Breker his official house sculptor -- but Adolf Hitler's taste in art was surprisingly broad -- and gaudy -- judging by a vast archive of some 11,000 Nazi-era exhibition installation photos now published online for the first time.

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What Heaven Looks Like: Part 2

James Elkins | Posted 01.28.2012

Read More: Religion, Glasgow, Watercolor, Trees, Fine Art, Manuscript, Art Criticism, Mysteries, Puzzle, Nature, Painting, Art History, Alchemy, Artists, Art, Philosophy, Hallucinations, Arts News, Mysticism, Arts News
James Elkins

I am serializing an unpublished book in this column. It's about an amazing, mysterious manuscript I discovered in Scotland with nothing in it but 50 watercolor paintings.

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What Heaven Looks Like

James Elkins | Posted 01.23.2012

Read More: Glasgow, Philosophy, Alchemy, Manuscript, Artists, Watercolor, Painting, Hallucinations, Trees, Mysticism, Religion, Art, Art History, Art Criticism, Puzzle, Nature, Mysteries, Fine Art, Arts News
James Elkins

2011-11-23-Screenshot20111123at8.42.29AM.pngI discovered an amazing, mysterious manuscript in Scotland. It's a little book with nothing in it but 50 watercolor paintings.

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PHOTOS: This Is Not René Magritte's Birthday

Posted 11.21.2011

Read More: Magritte Birthday, Surrealism, Rene Magritte, This Is Not a Pipe, Surrealist, Magritte, Art History, Pop Art, Arts News

René Magritte was born in Belgium 113 years ago today. Since then, he has pleased our eyes and tickled our minds with his poetic subversions of reali...

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