LONDON-A unique oil painting of Mahatma Gandhi will be sold at a auction here next month. This portrait, painted in 1931, is thought to be the only time Gandhi actually sat for an oil painting ...

The course builds on my 2018 class, Art and Geometry, which I co-taught with local artists. The course explored Picasso’s cubism, which depicted reality as fractured from multiple perspectives; it ...

What artists gain in expressive freedom, art institutions and enthusiasts inherit as long-term structural risk.

In the series presented here, recurring motifs of gates, doors and portals introduce a dynamic tension between the tangible ...

The artist discusses the unique allure and process of oil painting and what new projects are on the horizon.

There’s a certain poetic charm in washed-out, overlooked corners – places that might seem mundane at first glance, yet hold their own quiet beauty. Using my Samsung tablet as a portable digital ...

Lost for over 150 years, one of JMW Turner’s earliest oil paintings is about to go on display at London’s Sotheby’s before being auctioned. Titled ‘The Rising Squall, Hot Wells, from St ...

The first oil painting ever exhibited by Turner is to be put up for auction after being lost for more 150 years.

In oil painting, double bonds in the long carbon chains of the oil react with oxygen from the air as the artworks dry. This creates new chemical connections that stabilise the final, cured layers.

Art History Did Jan van Eyck Really Invent Oil Paint? Is Van Eyck the "Father of oil painting" or do we need a paternity test? Jan Van Eyck, Portrait of a Man (1433).

Optical Illusion: This painting by the famous artist Oleg Shuplyak contains several elements that will appear at multiple glances. The first element you notice reveals your personality traits.

Only 9% of people can correctly identify the colours in a black-and-white illusion with diagonal coloured lines. This visual trick, highlighted at Lon ...