We can think of few artists who embody the spirit of unbridled liberty and personal conviction better than Gustave Courbet. The rugged, bohemian paint...

The career of any artist of distinction is always full of battles, many of them won, some of them inevitably lost. I would like to know what you think of this exhibition of Mickalene Thomas and her risky dialogue with Big Boys of art's past.

Yesterday we showed this artwork and asked you to guess the artist. So far we're seeing a pattern in this series, as again only one third of you corre...

This 18th century French artist is best known for his decadent and frequently erotic paintings of upper class French society. Guess his identity in th...

One of the most prominent Post-Impressionist painters, this nineteenth-century artist is best known for his lurid color palette and provocative subjec...