Studying geology, zoology, botany and art, he combined them in his life ... typifies Velasco’s strange fusion of European-derived academicism, scientific enquiry and Mexican lore and landscape.

Art Nouveau, the movement that flourished between 1890 and 1910, developed at the apex of Belle Époque, the period which encouraged modernity and artistic breakthroughs more than any other, as a ...

We’ll examine the artistic movements that chiefly led to further developments in art: Academicism, the heir to Neoclassicism, and Romanticism. Week 2: Romanticism on the Continent and North America ...

His intellectual relation to the working class involved at once academicist alienation and ideological complicity ... His interest in what could be loosely termed ‘avant-garde’ art is divorced from ...

Salvador Dalí's ‘The Persistence of Memory’ is one of the most famous Surrealist paintings and is a rather small artwork that packs a ton of unconventional and ‘surreal’ elements. The ...

× 8 ft. 11 3/4 in. (208.3 × 273.7 cm.). Metropolitan Museum of Art Typical of Gentileschi’s oeuvre is this imposing Biblical scene at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. History paintings were the ...

Lumon’s way of communicating the Eagan family’s ideals and beliefs is often through visual art. For the “Severance” artisans, using art to canonize the story of Lumon was “definitely ...

Why did a single flower magnetize me? What can a flower — or a painting of a flower — do when you are lost in a blizzard? I myself wasn’t sure. Initially, I thought it was just the simple ...

Inside, centered on an orange wall, is a 6-by-3-foot painting of the Hindu god Krishna in the form of Shrinathji, a 7-year-old child. The blue-skinned figure, draped in necklaces and garlands ...

An early painting by the famed Austrian painter Gustav Klimt, thought lost since the 1930s, is on view for the first time since its recent rediscovery. The portrait of Prince William Nii Nortey ...