Why the Impressionists Were Originally Hated by Critics

Paris, 1870s. Picture the cafés brimful of cigarette smoke and gossip, art students everywhere, ...

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The Women of Abstract Expressionism Who Were Erased from History

The popular story of Abstract Expressionism has always sounded too neat. A handful of men, ...

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What separates a good artist from a great one? It’s not just the paint on canvas, a ...

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A blank wall, a roll of canvas, a dream. The painter’s dilemma: buy pre-stretched canvases ...

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A movement blooms and fades, yet the echoes linger. Nineteenth-century England, thick with ...

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One can talk about lost explorers, sunken ships, even missing civilizations. Yet none of these ...

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Hands and feet. The artist’s eternal headache, the nemesis lurking on every blank page. Ask a ...

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The allure of oil glazing never wanes. Artists chase that luminous, jewel-like finish, layers ...

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Mastery of painting isn’t just technical, it’s part detective story, part sleight of hand. ...

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Everything in art comes down to seeing. Not the eye itself, everyone’s got one, more or less, ...

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