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Primary Hughes doesn’t just paint what he sees; he paints what he feels. From sunlit dunes to raw, searching self-portraits, ...
What first appears to be a simple portrait of Taras Shevchenko is, in fact, a mind-bending visual puzzle packed with hidden ...
The newly uncovered portrait reveals a blonde woman, and although Georgette had brown hair, her face shape, nose, and hairstyle match the painting’s subject, the researchers say. Another ...
The Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery has announced the installation of a life-size painting of President Abraham Lincoln by artist W.F.K. Travers. Created from life in 1865, the 9-foot-tall oil ...
A painting of Mahatma Gandhi, believed to be the only oil portrait he ever sat for, sold for $205,000 at Bonhams on Tuesday. The painting originally had a pre-sale estimate of $67,063 (£50,000) to $93 ...
Face painter Ashley Cassell Bozarth shares her passion and skill for temporary works of art. Professional face painter Ashley Cassell Bozarth shares her passion and skill for painting temporary ...
The oil painting is 9 feet tall, including the frame. “Lincoln is 6’4”,” Farmer said. “With his top hat that he often wore, he would have been over 7 foot, and you get the sense of that ...
Hidden on the reverse side of the painting " Head of a Peasant Woman," which Van Gogh completed in 1885, was a previously unknown self-portrait of the Dutch painter staring back at them.
The self-portrait was revealed during an X-ray of an 1885 painting by Van Gogh, Head of a Peasant Woman, as the museum was prepping for an upcoming exhibition on impressionism, which is scheduled ...