BrainCan - painting

mary heilmann: looking at pictures review - art...

Whitechapel Gallery,Londoncold and Californian, punky and urban – Mary Heilmann toys irreverently...

kehinde wiley: creating the portrait of obama is...

The US artist on being the first African American to paint the presidential portrait,Michael...

max beckmann at the tate gallery - archive, 5...

5 October 1965: Two world wars,a lonely decade in Amsterdam followed by emigration to the US, these...

bring female artists out of storage

Why are there so few paintings by women in public galleries? Amanda Vickery goes on a shocking hunt...

kerry james marshall: as an artist, everything...

Born in Birmingham,Alabama, Kerry James Marshall taught himself to draw and made his first paintings...

waking the gods: how the classical world cast its...

Dod Procter’s painting of a girl on the brink of waking echoes an ancient statue of Ariadne –...

russia and the arts: the age of tolstoy and...

National Portrait Gallery,LondonThis once-in-a-lifetime prove of portraits on loan from Moscow is...

the big eyed children: the extraordinary story of...

In the 1960s,Walter Keane was feted for his sentimental portraits that sold by the million. But in...

michael borremans: black mould review - figments...

David Zwirner,LondonThe only greater mystery than these fascinating paintings is why their maker is...

john hoyland: why is damien hirst opening his new...

Newport Street gallery,LondonHirst’s choice of a mediocre and justly forgotten artist for the...

wifredo lam review - cubas last of the true...

Tate contemporary,London The artist’s odyssey from Cuba to Europe and back again turned him from a...

vigee le brun: artist to the aristocracy who...

A original exhibition of the French artist’s work reveal her flattering portraiture of...

in the age of giorgione review: in pursuit of an...

Royal Academy,London[br]This exemplary exhibition brings us a exiguous closer to understanding the...

howard arkley, the man who saw australian suburbia...

Even as he fought his own demons,the Melbourne artist celebrated diversity where others saw...

meet the neighbours: alice neel s harlem portraits

As a new explain opens in London,curator Hilton Als talks approximately the great 20th-century...

my nose is askew, my chin is formidable - its me,...

Gail Porter,Ricky Hatton, Bill Oddie … in her portrait series Bipolar Picasso, or Andrea Tyrimos...

wifredo lam review - cubas last of the great...

Tate contemporary,London The artist’s odyssey from Cuba to Europe and back again turned him from a...

roland collins obituary

Painter with a feeling for the unusual and overlooked detail of the British landscapeThe artist...

trevor bell obituary

Modern artist noted for his large-scale and irregular canvases and lavish use of colourThe vibrant...

wild and free: inside the home of sue dunkley, pop...

In her heyday,she was a voracious painter who counted Salman Rushdie and Julie Christie among her...

eric fischl: what america wants is artists who...

The American painter who broke through in the 1980s with disturbingly voyeuristic scenes of suburban...

emil nolde review - a seething visionary twisted...

National Gallery of Ireland,DublinMenace and rawness saturate Nolde’s powerful works. But the...

nikolai astrup: painting norway review - pulsating...

Dulwich Picture Gallery,LondonShowing for the first time outside Scandinavia, Nikolai Astrups wild...

yellow rumped warbler setophaga coronata

I wrote about these limited guys not too long ago,and we had many of them visit our backyard final...

rachel jones, 24: trying to second guess what...

She wondered how she’d ever make a living as a painter,but there was nothing else she was...

tightrope walk: the show that sums up art in 67...

As De Keyser’s last works brood at the David Zwirner,a sweeping account of modern portray from...

president with a torpedo in his crotch: how the...

Born in Zanzibar and raised in Britain,Lubaina Himid makes work approximately everything from...

light, time, legacy: francis towne s watercolours...

British Museum,LondonWhen Francis Towne went to Italy in 1780 everything amazed him. The...

nikolai astrup: the lost artist of norway

He should be as famous as Edvard Munch,but the world seems to have forgotten him – until now....

the 10 best love paintings

In honour of Valentine’s Day,cast your adoring eyes over the sweetest representations of romance...

marie antoinette s favourite painter

Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun found fame as portraitist of France’s ancien régimeBefore the...

light, time, legacy: francis townes watercolours...

British Museum,London[br]A romantic poet with a watercolour brush, this 18th-century artist offers...

george w bushs portraits of world leaders: art...

Presidential library in Dallas exhibits two dozen paintings that are vacant,stubborn and servile –...

margaret evans obituary

My friend Margaret Evans,who has died aged 82, was an intuitive, or vibrant painter who,during her...

the top 10 corpses in art

From toppled toreadors to inanimate aristocrats,with a Christ or two on the way, buy a tour of...

duffy ayers obituary

Gifted portrait painter and member of the distinguished school of art based in the Essex village of...

bhupen khakhar: you can t please all review - a...

Tate contemporary,London This poorly planned reveal does little to flatter the nebulous talents of...

art to eat with your eyes: ken done on 10 of his...

Ken Done was everywhere in the 80s and 90s – doona covers with a tropical-fish print,Harbour...

painting norway: nikolai astrup review -...

Dulwich Picture Gallery,London[br]Munch’s contemporary evokes the wonder of Norse folklore, using...

paul nash review - pain, wonder and inescapable...

Tate Britain,LondonWhether he’s portray the peaceful English countryside or the wartime trenches,...

how whistlers mother became a powerful symbol of...

The Mona Lisa,The Scream, Andy Warhol’s paintings of Marilyn Monroe: there are few artworks so...

painting the view from a rainy day road trip - in...

When he’s driving,Gregory Thielker takes in the views that change from moment to moment: the road,...

richard constable obituary

My friend and colleague Richard Constable,who has died aged 83, was the great-great-grandson of the...

howard hodgkin: once i stop painting, they should...

He may be in his 80s and in need of a wheelchair to get approximately,but Howard Hodgkin still...

363 days of tea - in pictures

Ruby Silvious lives in upstate fresh York and has been turning discarded objects into art for many...

painting by mythical artist nat tate sells for...

Author and screenwriter William Boyd brought tormented,gifted artist to life in 1998, fooling...

studio of englands michelangelo is recreated in...

Victorian artist George Frederic Watts’s restored workspace also celebrates the life of his...

museums are now part of britains pernicious north...

Closure threats to museums in the north of England represent a cultural crisis that will hide art...

ghostly 16th century portrait of byrons ancestor...

portray of bearded man thought to have haunted poet’s family domestic of Newstead Abbey found by...

cromwells warts and all portraitist gets first...

Samuel Cooper was regarded as the best portrait painter of his day,but his miniatures are now almost...

dotted masterpieces from the tiny aboriginal town...

In the 1970s a striking novel art style,popularly known as dot portray, emerged from the remote...

gerhard richter gives holocaust art to berlin

Germany’s greatest living painter donates 100 works,including his Birkenau series, to capital’s...

ken done: sell out, one hit wonder, or australia s...

In the 80s it seemed like every Australian family owned at least one Ken Done handbag,mug or doona...

are the most expensive paintings ever worth their...

On Monday,Modigliani’s Reclining Nude joined an elite band of artworks that gain commanded over...

nicola russell obituary

My partner,Nicola Russell, who has died aged 51 of breast cancer, or was an accomplished artist...

papunyas daughters: australias second generation...

The tiny Aboriginal settlement of Papunya was the birthplace of dot portray. Now daughters and...

ecce dinero: spain turns ruined christ fresco into...

Paying tourists flock to see Spanish octogenarian's ill-fated retouching of precious portray in...

de bosched! who cares if a painting isnt by a...

Paintings by Rembrandt,Da Vinci and now two of the Prado’s famed Bosches have been identified as...

myuran sukumaran s death row paintings cry out...

The prison paintings signed by Sukumaran and fellow inmates facing death by firing squad in...

umbrella shop oil painting wins top figurative art...

Lewis Hazelwood-Horner painting of ‘genuine people with knotty hands’ at James Smith & Sons wins...

henry viii portrait: copy of holbein painting...

Oil-on-oak-panel work in the style of the renowned court artist may contain been sold for just £1...

renaissance man: anthony hopkinss paintings come...

21 January 2010: From gentle pastoral scenes to nightmarish figurative portraits,paintings by actor...

georgia o keeffe flower painting sells for record...

Final tender for Jimson Weed/White Flower No 1 more than doubles the previous highest price paid for...

no sex in this city: the bare faced cheek of...

The Musée d’Orsay – which displays some of the most outrageous nudes ever painted – called in...

judy cassab, australian artist and holocaust...

The first woman to win the Archibald prize twice led a celebrated art career in which she painted...

arts minister places uk export bar on £26.2m...

Huge painting of Rialto Bridge was sold at auction final summer to an abroad buyer but committee...

zurbaran masterpieces to leave uk for us for the...

Paintings of Jacob and 12 sons will leave Europe for analysis and to recede on display during...

the curious world of australian painter charles...

Curious Blackman is a print collection of 14 works by Australian painter Charles Blackman. His...

judas painting survived reformation by being...

Vibrant medieval panel discovered by Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge hidden under varnish,bat faeces...

german police appeal for information after 17th...

An art expert believes the paintings are by Dutch artist Samuel van Hoogstraten and Italian Pietro...

french impressionism: masterpieces chart the...

From Claude Monet’s radiant water lilies to Paul Cézanne’s rendering of the verdant French...

arthur streeton to be first australian artist to...

Curator says Streeton demonstrated in his 1890 Blue Pacific how impressionism addressed the...

uk buyer sought for £30m pontormo painting

Temporary export ban placed on 16th-century Portrait of a Young Man in a Red Cap after its sale to...

15th century painting given export bar to prevent...

The government hopes an individual or a gallery in the UK can match the asking price of £3.3m for...

modiglianis reclining nude fetches second highest...

portray sells for US$170.4m in New York auction,falling $9m short of record set by Picasso’s Women...

we do need a portrait of the lord speaker - she s...

News of a £12000 commission for a portrait of Baroness D’Souza has caused predictable outrage....

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