After losing his mother to cancer as a child, 16-year-old Hugh Saetia now paints portraits for families mourning loved ones ...
Lucas Zwirner faces to the side in a swirl of pigment washes of purple and blue. When Elizabeth Peyton’s painting of her friend, the heir-apparent to the Zwirner gallery empire, debuted at Art Basel ...
Creating a realistic portrait inspired by John Singer Sargent, this video emphasizes observation, simplification, and ...
Amir H. Fallah, “Remember My Child, Nowhere Is Safe” (2020), acrylic on canvas, 96 x 72 inches (all images courtesy the artist and Shulamit Nazarian) LOS ANGELES — What does it mean to paint ...
When Amy Sherald was selected to paint the official portrait of Michelle Obama eight years ago, many people in the art world didn't know who she was. They do now. At 52, Sherald has become one of ...
The Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery unveiled a life-size painting of President Abraham Lincoln Friday morning. The 1865 portrait was painted by Dutch artist W.F.K. Travers and is one of three ...
Dutch artist Dirck Jacobsz created an uncanny reflection on presence and absence in a painting of his parents The motives for making a painting can be thumpingly straightforward: You see something, ...