The early 20th century was a time of new "isms," including Fauvism. With their bold, primitive style, the Fauves, or "wild beasts," brought an untamed spirit to the art world. The Fauves ...

American artist Charles R. Knight produced some of the most iconic paintings of prehistoric life to date. Several major natural history museums in the US have featured Knight’s murals: detailed, ...

Many early-twentieth-century artists, especially from French and German avant-garde groups, such as Les Fauves and Der Blaue Reiter, freed of the concept that the goal of art was to reproduce ...

the Asheville Art Museum spotlights several early 20th-century painters who captured the soaring vistas of the Great Smoky Mountains. “Honoring Nature is the perfect title because that’s what ...

Harmony and Dissonance brings a trove of wonderful paintings to public attention. Anyone interested in the way that artists responded to the developments of the early 20th century should visit ...

When the video game Bloodborne dropped players into the deep end and ignored their cries for help, it joined a tradition of ...

According to the Salon, the painting wasn’t just unlike Matisse’s earlier Neo-Impressionist works, it was downright unbecoming—a scandal. Femme au chapeau so alarmed the Salon’s jury ...

Together, the images show how Hardrick, who died at age 77 in 1968, helped pioneer the way the world saw Black cultural life in the early to mid-20th-century. "Hardrick is painting members of the ...

After reading S.N. Behrman’s biography of the bravura early 20th century art dealer Joseph Duveen over the past few weeks, I’m struck by the ways that a few of Duveen’s signature strategies ...