Tag: Paintings

I’m one month into this project today. It was just a day in the shop, working on furniture, so I wore a t-shirt and a cargo pants and vintage vans, plus a sweater. Gray is an iffy color for me. It’s almost always too soft. This charcoal is a really clear color though and I think it&rs...

To walk through a museum is to backtrack along the thin tightrope of a timeline. Years unwind along lonely halls stamped with the significant integers of ancient artifacts. Plaques of text ascribe to them stories spanning generations of history, once real lives now relegated to blurbs readers will f...

Amid the coronavirus pandemic, traveling became an unsafe and a complicated scenario that most people have been avoiding, rightfully so. One of the things that I love doing when traveling to a country that I’ve never been to before it’s visiting museums and art galleries. If you too love...

Nowadays we can use all sorts of techniques to look down through layers of paint to discover what lies underneath a painting. As I showed when discussing the National Gallery of Art’s recent Vermeer exhibition, techniques like x-rays can reveal how artists changed compositions in their pa...

Nowadays we can use all sorts of techniques to look down through layers of paint to discover what lies underneath a painting. As I showed when discussing the National Gallery of Art’s recent Vermeer exhibition, techniques like x-rays can reveal how artists changed compositions in their pa...

This question clearly haunts artists, as some will continue to work and rework the same piece over and over again. Some even attempt to make alterations after the work has been sold or collected, with English painter Francis Bacon being notorious for altering works during the course of an exhibition...

The story of art history begins with the ancient cave paintings found in various parts of the world, such as the famous Lascaux caves in France, dating back tens of thousands of years. These primitive artworks depict animals, human figures, and symbols, offering a glimpse into the lives and beliefs ...

One of the earliest examples of portraiture in paintings can be found in ancient Egypt, where pharaohs and nobles were depicted in profile with symbolic gestures and hieroglyphic inscriptions. These images served as a form of propaganda, showcasing the power and authority of the ruling elite. Dur...

Several years ago, Dr. Penny Spikins, a lecturer in the archaeology department at the University of York and prehistoric history expert, was looking for signs of the development of humanity’s emotional intelligence and care for the ill in Ice Age cave art when she noticed a pattern with the re...