The world was in shock when in 2001 the Talibans destroyed two ancient Buddha statues in Afghanistan. Behind them, there are caves decorated with precious paintings from 5th to 9th century A.D. The ...

Oil paintings have been found in caves behind the two ancient colossal Buddha statues destroyed in 2001 by the Taliban, suggesting that Asians — not Europeans — were the first to invent oil painting.

Alla prima, an Italian term meaning “first attempt,” is an oil painting technique where layers of paint are applied while still wet, usually quickly over the course of just a few hours rather than ...

I spent 14 days inside a castle, focusing on portrait painting and learning oil techniques from masters. Watch my journey ...

Researchers at the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, using infrared reflectography, have discovered an earlier painted portrait of a woman underneath René Magritte’s 1943 painting, La Cinquième ...

The Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery unveiled a life-size painting of President Abraham Lincoln Friday morning. The 1865 portrait was painted by Dutch artist W.F.K. Travers and is one of three ...

The world was in shock when in 2001 the Talibans destroyed two ancient colossal Buddha statues in the Afghan region of Bamiyan. Behind those statues, there are caves decorated with precious paintings ...

Last week's column was actually begun as a general investigation of oil painting; I got side-tracked onto the subject of flax by a chance reference, in my encyclopedia, to the fact that South Dakota ...

Anyone who dismisses beauty as vain or superficial has clearly never watched Joni Sann's TikTok tutorials. The Los Angeles-based creator (@jonisann) is both an artist and beauty influencer — and ...