The Figure Painting project started while going through my mum's attic, sorting through old belongings. On discovering my old toys, I was hit by a wave of nostalgia and a flood of memories from these ...

A "devil-like figure" featured in a painting by a renowned artist that's more than 230 years old has been rediscovered after a recent restoration. The discovery came as a result of conservation work ...

A major source of evidence for ancient Greece is painted pottery. The two most popular decorative styles are black-figure vase painting, practiced in the late 7th and 6th centuries B.C.E., and ...

Closing, Issy Wood, 2022. (© Issy Wood. Courtesy of Michael Werner Gallery, New York and London) Lately, figurative painting has become a much stronger presence on the art scene—and in the art ...

In a contemporary art world awash in -isms, realistic figure painting may seem like a quaint throwback. But don't tell that to the 10 artists in town this week for a marathon figure-painting ...

The black-figure technique of vase painting was invented in the city of Corinth around 700 B.C.E. It was around this time that Corinthian vase painters began adorning their vessels with animal friezes ...

He is widely regarded as one of the greatest painters who ever lived, but even an Old Master like Rembrandt appears to have tried to hide work from early on in his career. Analysis of one of the Dutch ...

A “devil-like figure” featured in a painting by a renowned artist that’s more than 230 years old has been rediscovered after a recent restoration. The discovery came as a result of conservation work ...