A GOOD model, badly posed, lends itself to very awkward studies, and does not instruct the eye as it should. French art is a subject that for a long time has been badly posed before Americans. Those ...

The Clark Art Institute exhibit spotlights French prints, photos and drawings from 1840–70 steeped in the imaginary and ...

An Ipsos-BVA survey for Beaux Arts Magazine, released on Thursday, reveals the public's taste for contemporary art but a ...

Line, shape, space, form, tone, texture, pattern, color, and composition are combined and organized in various ways to create what we know as paintings, but that process is often lost on the viewer.

The international tour of The Age of Impressionism: Great French Paintings from the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute concludes in Houston at the MFAH. Showcasing the Clark's holdings of ...

Boston can be a pretty dismal place in the winter: the cold, the rain, the snow and the seemingly endless grey skies. However, from now until Apr. 13, Boston's Museum of Fine Arts offers a perfectly ...

If you’ve ever wanted to see works of art hanging in the National Gallery of Art without having to leave the Pacific ...

Nineteenth century French painting has never fitted neatly into art historians’ annals. It was a century of variety and contradictions, blessed with an embarrassment of riches. Every decade had its ...

Villa Albertine expands the notion of artist residencies to include academics and broadens the scope from a single physical location to national immersion. France plays a unique role in the history of ...

The details of Marie Laurencin’s life are so incredible that her story sounds like a movie in the making. In fact, it’s shocking to me that the French artist (1883-1956) doesn’t have better name ...