Take any major historical Western art movement from the 16th century through today and you can bet women played an important role. Until the last handful of years, you can also bet that male scholars ...

A collaboration of ecologists and art historians has demonstrated that landscape paintings from more than 150 years ago can advance environmental science. An Oregon State University-led collaboration ...

Spending time in nature reduces stress. A number of scientific studies have found it can help lower cortisol and blood pressure levels, and even alleviate depression and anxiety. While few of us these ...

I went to the Smithsonian American Art Museum recently looking for art from an age of pain, division or uncertainty — art that would speak to our current moment. Perhaps something from the First World ...

Without the Schuylkill River School, there may never have been a Hudson River School, says the curator of a Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts exhibit. Thomas Birch, Fairmount Water Works 1821.

Romantic artists often used sunset, twilight, and moonlight to explore emotions and spirituality in nature. The transition from day to night in art can symbolize continuity, romance, or even ...

Landscape Painting Now: From Pop Abstraction to New Romanticism, by Barry Schwabsky (DAP, April 2019) Art critic Barry Schwabsky’s new book, Landscape Painting Now: From Pop Abstraction to New ...

Painting with the flow of the world / Barry Schwabsky -- Realism and beyond : Pat de Groot ; Sylvia Plimack Mangold ; Jane Freilicher ; Lois Dodd ; Maureen Gallace ; Cynthia Daignault ; John Beerman ; ...

Lois Dodd, "White Echinacea + Butterflies" (1997-98), oil on linen, 36 x 58 inches (all images courtesy Center for Figurative Painting) There are many competing narratives about what happened in ...

Whether it's Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel ceiling, Andy Warhol's Campbell's soup cans, or ancient humans' lustrous cave paintings, the creation of art is an inherently human story. By applying a ...