In the midst of what we now call the Aesthetic Movement, James Abbot McNeil Whistler exemplified the concept of art for art's sake, a...

From the Wright Flyer to the Airbus A380, significant advancements in aviation align with some of the most important milestones in human...

Marie Jeannette de Lange was a Dutch amateur painter and reform dress advocate. Born in Batavia in the Dutch East Indies in 1865,...

In Ancient Greece, Pliny the Elder recorded a story in the Naturalis Historia about a competition held between two artists - Zeuxis of...

Born in 1855 in London, Evelyn de Morgan is considered to be either a late Pre-Raphaelite or an English Symbolist. She grew up in an...

In 2021, a painting by Sacha Jafri was sold for $62 million at an auction in Dubai. Layered with extensive drips, splatters, whorls and...

At least 45,000 years ago, early humans began marking surfaces with representations that reflected a vivid conceptualization of their...

Celebrated for the verism of her subjects, Prudence Heward advocated for realism over idealization. Her complex portraits of women split...

A painter, writer, illustrator and set and costume designer, Russian artist Natalia Goncharova is one of the most respected figures in...

About 80 km southwest of Cairo lies Fayum. Located on the shores of a giant pseudo-oasis fed by the Nile, Fayum is one of the oldest...

Before Kandinsky, Malevich and Mondrian, there was Hilma af Klint. Considered the first abstract artist in Western art history, af Klint...

The National Gallery of Victoria in Melbourne, Australia possesses artworks from Salvador Dali and Margaret Olley to Sidney Nolan and...

From Botticelli's The Birth Of Venus to Kazimir Malevich's Black Square, all artworks operate on at least one element of art.

Editing an image with Instagram is a relatively simple process. Settings like Brightness, Contrast, Saturation, Highlights and Shadows...

It's become a well-known anecdote that on the night of its broadcast, Orson Wells' 1938 reading of War of the Worlds triggered mass panic...

When Belgian artist Pierre Cordier wrote a dedication in nail polish on a slip of photographic paper in 1956, he realized a unique...

When we turn our heads, our brain selectively blocks visual processing. It's called saccadic suppression (a saccade is a rapid movement...