Pain and suffering of the physical body have been topics explored by many artists.While pain is something that most of the world strives to avoid, there are some who embrace...
The pressure to look a certain way, think a certain way, and to be a certain way. As far as time is recorded, there are those who are ‘different’ or...
Af Klint was a future-thinking woman who created over 1,300 abstract artworks in 1906. This was well before “abstract” art was coined by Kandinsky, Mondrian, and Malevich. Af Klint created...
Artists did this to elevate baby Jesus’s holiness in an attempt to make out as if his divinity began at birth, doing away with many soft infant features to replace...
Why medieval artists painted cats so oddly: from dark superstitions to moral lessons, these bizarre felines reveal much about medieval beliefs.
Hypatia was not just a philosopher who happened to be a woman, she was the most esteemed thinker in all of Alexandria during her time.
Pre-Raphaelites opposed concepts of harmony and ideal beauty, which the Royal Academy of Arts had promoted as excellence in the art world. The Pre-Raphaelite ideal of feminine beauty differed greatly...
Throughout history, teardrops remain a powerful visual motif in art, capable of conveying a wide range of emotions and experiences. Whether used to express grief, love, or hope, they continue...
Now, art can be perceived under multiple technological lenses, helping the world better understand the historical context of a piece while revolutionizing how it is presented in a public setting....
Russian-American artist Georgy Kurasov recently had four of his paintings plagiarized by the Egyptian graphic designer, Ghada Wali. Kurasov’s copied originals are on display without his permission at the College...
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