Uncommon Courses is an occasional series from The Conversation U.S. highlighting unconventional approaches to teaching.

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 ...

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 ...

Ravees’s oil paintings celebrate the beauty of being simple and lucid. The exhibition, Beauty is Truth, currently on in Thiruvananthapuram, is the first solo show of the artist, who prefers to ...

Illusion Hands: Painting Wonders Unveiled!! Zelensky and Europe in shock: Trump dumps Ukraine in favor of Putin Explosion at Italian Port: Russian Oil Tanker Targeted 'Doomsday' fish found in ...