His new body of work, History Painting, takes a similar technical approach, although rather than interpret a specific scene, ...
In July, an oil painting of Mahatma Gandhi made by Clare Leighton, an artist renowned for her wood engravings, will be auctioned for the first time — believed to be the only oil portrait of the ...
IN THE AGE of Instagram, it seems everyone’s a star: Whether to celebrate an engagement or enshrine a “babymoon,” the celeb-style photo shoot—complete with elaborate costume changes—is how many people ...
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 ...
Nvidia and Adobe teamed up to develop a 3D-painting app that is sure to become an essential tool for modern day art forgers. The software accurately simulates the 3D texture of oil paints, and how the ...
Can the artist’s hand be replaced by a robot’s touch? Tech artist Pindar Van Arman thinks so. He’s created bitPaintr, an artistic robot that paints portraits using a brush, canvas, and of course, ...
In his 1550 volume Lives of the Artists, painter and architect Giorgio Vasari snuck in praise for the Flemish artist Jan van Eyck in his chapter on the Italian painter Antonello da Messina. Vasari ...