Zhu Wei, “Ink and Wash Research Lecture Series (unfinished)” (2015), ink and color pigment on paper (click to enlarge) Gao Qian’s painting “Hua Jian Ji No. 2” (2014) is superbly executed in ink and ...

What does it mean to paint now, in an image-saturated world where every moment can be captured in high resolution and consumed within seconds? Recent contemporary painting trends suggest a widespread ...

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Artists have always recycled their era’s “Old Masters”: Romans quoted the Greeks, Rodin studied Michelangelo, and Picasso returned to Rembrandt, to name just a few. While the prevalence of these ...

Sixteenth-century Venetian painters have been regarded as “colorists” since their own time. The phrase “Venetian palette” is used today by art historians to describe the colors used by Renaissance ...

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 ...