The Figure Painting project started while going through my mum's attic, sorting through old belongings. On discovering my old toys, I was hit by a wave of nostalgia and a flood of memories from these ...

A “devil-like figure” featured in a painting by a renowned artist that’s more than 230 years old has been rediscovered after a recent restoration. The discovery came as a result of conservation work ...

Michael Armitage, “Kampala Suburb” (2014), oil on Lubugo bark cloth, 196 x 150 cm (Private Collection, London) LONDON — About 30 or so years ago, painting’s grand State Funeral at Westminster Abbey in ...

In a 17th-century painting that hangs in the Yale Divinity School, a group of Reformation thinkers clusters around a table, with Martin Luther occupying pride of place at the center of the scene. But ...

Traveling from as far away as China, realist painters vie with one another in a weeklong contest. In a contemporary art world awash in -isms, realistic figure painting may seem like a quaint throwback ...

The guard used a ballpoint pen to doodle on the expensive artwork Painting was created by artist Anna Leporskaya between 1932 and 1934 Curator said the administration believes it was "some kind of a ...

Wang Xijing is a famous painter specializing in realist portraits. Wang had an important turning point in 2000, transferring toward contemporary figure painting. The year also marked a revival of ink ...

Martin Luther sits at a table surrounded by other leaders of the Reformation. A Bible is opened in front of him. A candle burns at the table’s center. The scene is depicted in a 17th-century painting ...