People of status always dominated in portraits, not only because of their elevated social rank but also because it cost a ...

Albert Benoit/Wikimedia Commons) Séraphine Louis, better known as Séraphine de Senlis (1864-1942), a French “outsider artist,” worked as a convent maid before her work was discovered, and by many ...

Pierre Soulages went back to black before it was the fashion. For a major retrospective of the 89-year-old French painter's work, the Georges Pompidou Center in Paris is dressed up with his giant, ...

A GOOD model, badly posed, lends itself to very awkward studies, and does not instruct the eye as it should. French art is a subject that for a long time has been badly posed before Americans. Those ...

Line, shape, space, form, tone, texture, pattern, color, and composition are combined and organized in various ways to create what we know as paintings, but that process is often lost on the viewer.

While it may not feel like the first day of spring across much of the U.S., the canvases are in full bloom at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts in Richmond. Opening Saturday, “Van Gogh, Manet, and ...

Art Capital 2026: the major artistic event to experience this winter at the Grand Palais Art Capital returns for a new ...

Villa Albertine expands the notion of artist residencies to include academics and broadens the scope from a single physical location to national immersion. France plays a unique role in the history of ...

Pyotr Konchalovsky’s "Self-Portrait" will not return to Russia. The 1912 painting is owned by Petr Aven, a Russian oligarch on the European Union sanctions list. French authorities will not let it ...