When we admire great works of art, we rarely think about who the people depicted on the paintings are. Behind some famous ...

Artist and His Mother, by Arshile Gorky [Photo/Artron.net] This painting, from US artist Arshile Gorky, portrays a photo of him and his mother. The original photo was sent to his father living in ...

Grab the Monet and Gogh: The Google Arts & Culture app lets you take a selfie, then compares it to thousands of museum paintings ... including one of baby Anne in her mother Edith's arms at ...

And there are iconic scenes, done up in oils and acrylics, that are so famous they ... That last painting is also frequently dubbed "Portrait of the Artist's Mother" though most of us would ...