Artist Spotlight: Johanne Mangi
I paint whatever excites me, but my biggest inspiration comes from my animals and surrounding wildlife.
Art Collection Profile: The Peraltas’ Love of Realism
Their first serious purchase together was a Chagall lithograph they spotted at London’s Sims Reed Gallery ...
Artist to Watch: Nicole Parker
The artist’s fascination with the strangeness of “betweenness” or — as she says — being nowhere and everywhere at once, figures prominently in her work.
Miles Cleveland Goodwin: “Beautiful Dying Man”
Few artists have the gumption to explore such weighty topics as death, destitution, and decay, but these are concepts about which Georgia-based painter Miles Cleveland Goodwin has much to say.
Oil Paintings That Show a Joyful Sense of Urgency
For many artists, positive reception of their pictures is simply a bonus, not the true end to their creative means. For painter Carl Bretzke, the creative act seems to boil down into one lovely emotion: joy. How?
The Tradition of Russia’s Academic Masters, Continued
The past year has been busy and productive for the Russian master painter Nikolai Blokhin; his next chapter includes...
Artist Spotlight: Matthew Bird
“I knew I had gifts and talents that I wasn't using, and I needed a change. That was when I walked away to focus on painting.”
Beyond Conscious Control
Interview: Ilya Gefter on ways a viewer may gain insight into an artist by looking at his or her work, and more.
Artist Spotlight: Carolyn Lindsey
Family Farm can be seen at the Oil Painters of America National Show in Steamboat Springs.
What is the best thing about being an artist?
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Representational Painting Subjects That Are … Radical
How Sean Cheetham brings a genuine element of cool — a unique and honest edginess — to contemporary representational painting, which can often seem like "the art world’s nerd corner."