Artistic styles exist only in retrospect. While many of their defining characteristics are formulated in manifestos by pioneering artists, a style can’t be fully understood until it has become a thing ...

It is very uncommon for Mondrian’s artworks from his mature period in the 1920 and 1930s to go up for auction. They are usually housed in museum collections, given their significance to the ...

In "A Midsummer Afternoon Dream" (detail view), artist Amy Sherald uses a grayscale rendering to portray a woman of color, a bold move away from verisimilitude that highlights the personhood of the ...

At the turn of the century, Australian women artists travelled to Europe and returned with new styles and techniques. Their ...

The British artist’s retrospective at the Modern in Fort Worth explores the human body with startling intimacy.

The latest feature from writer-director Pascal Bonitzer follows what happens after a long lost Egon Schiele painting is ...

Curved lines and block colors in shades of orange, yellow and blue create the image of an artist, framed by a border of abstract shapes. Look a little closer and you can see the artist’s beret with ...

In 2019, two Persian paintings sold in a private-auction house, in London, for roughly eight hundred thousand pounds each. The paintings were illuminated manuscripts, or “miniature” paintings, and ...

Expertise from Forbes Councils members, operated under license. Opinions expressed are those of the author. Contemporary art is worth nearly $2.7 billion in market turnover and accounts for a ...

Imagine having one foot firmly in the modern world and the other planted deep in the realm of folklore and fantasy. A ...