A GOOD model, badly posed, lends itself to very awkward studies, and does not instruct the eye as it should. French art is a subject that for a long time has been badly posed before Americans. Those ...

The Clark Art Institute exhibit spotlights French prints, photos and drawings from 1840–70 steeped in the imaginary and ...

Boston can be a pretty dismal place in the winter: the cold, the rain, the snow and the seemingly endless grey skies. However, from now until Apr. 13, Boston's Museum of Fine Arts offers a perfectly ...

Line, shape, space, form, tone, texture, pattern, color, and composition are combined and organized in various ways to create what we know as paintings, but that process is often lost on the viewer.

Pyotr Konchalovsky’s "Self-Portrait" will not return to Russia. The 1912 painting is owned by Petr Aven, a Russian oligarch on the European Union sanctions list. French authorities will not let it ...

If you’ve ever wanted to see works of art hanging in the National Gallery of Art without having to leave the Pacific ...

Fabienne Verdier is not afraid to carve her own path. She was the first French artist to study under Huang Yuan, a Sichuanese master artist, in China, where she remained for 10 years. Upon returning ...

(Annual Rosenberg Fête: All That Glitters Is Not Gold: The Art, Form, and Function of Gilt Bronze in the French 18th-Century Interior ) Annual Rosenberg Fête: All That Glitters Is Not Gold: The Art, ...

MUCH has been said about the mission of art and the artist. Art has no mission; it is only one form by which the ideas of a race or a nation find expression at certain stages of intellectual progress.