Romanticism, Impressionism, Art Nouveau; Cubism (Picasso) and Surrealism (Dalí). In the 1800s, the Industrial Revolution spawned new artistic styles: idealized Romanticism, light-chasing Impressionism ...

Claude Monet and Henri Matisse may already be household names for fans of Impressionism, French painting or water lilies, but ...

Hugh Eakin’s new book, “Picasso’s War: How Modern Art Came to America” (Crown), isn’t really about Picasso, or about war, or about art. Its subject is the creation of a market for a certain product, ...

A major exhibition touring Europe argues that modern artists who turned to the dark side were inspired by Gothic art from the Middle Ages. By Nina Siegal Reporting from Helsinki Why did Vincent van ...

Yannis Tsarouchis was one of the most prominent figures of Greek art and his work has just begun to garner attention outside ...

OF ALL, Europeans only the Greeks, and the Balkan peoples under their civilizing influences preserved the art forms, subjects, and principles of medieval Byzantium. Only if we fully appreciate this ...

An analysis of the auction market’s resurgent interest in the Old Masters and in young artists reinventing the classics. Sellers of fine artworks by European Old Masters have spent the past several ...

Tel Aviv’s first mayor, Meir Dizengoff, was ruminating about a Jewish art museum in Eretz Yisrael when he invited Marc Chagall to visit him in the spring of 1931. While they were discussing potential ...

Artists like Van Gogh, Picasso, and Dalí express the complexity of our modern world. In the 1800s, the Industrial Revolution spawned new artistic styles: idealized Romanticism, light-chasing ...