A latchkey kid in rural Japan learned the world through American radio, then painted that solitude into the most recognizable children in contemporary art.
Gertrude Abercrombie painted moonlit rooms and lone sorceresses for the jazz musicians who filled her home, and a $30 estate sale find sold for $1.35 million.
A Chilean architect trained under Le Corbusier painted the landscapes of the mind, taught automatism to New York's future stars, and was expelled by Breton.
A Hanoi-trained sculptor reached Paris in 1931, lost access to bronze during the war, and remade himself as a painter of silk and Riviera light.
A look at the surviving Vermeer paintings and the discourse of attribution, from his early history scenes to the quiet interiors that closed out his career.
A machine gunner turned painter filled room-sized canvases with jewel-toned visions of war, until a 2003 article pulled him from obscurity.
Artemisia Gentileschi survived a public rape trial at seventeen and went on to become the first woman admitted to Florence's painting academy.
Lee Krasner was already an established New York painter before Jackson Pollock. Inside a career built on destruction, reinvention, and grief.
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Before his signature abstraction, Arshile Gorky moved through Cézanne, Picasso, Munch, Léger, and Kandinsky, building the language that made him.
David Hockney, the pioneering British painter behind A Bigger Splash, has died at 88. A look at his life, work, and lasting influence.
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