It’s an obvious first question when looking at the work of artist Liza Lou ... Lou applied a mix of her beads and oil paint onto canvas using a palette knife. The broad gestures are spare ...

This disaster made the artist “determined to bring it about that the sun should never again do such great damage to his works”—and so he invented oil paint. “He saw that mixing the colors ...

An artist who creates realistic oil paintings of the eggs his partner ... One day he decided to paint a range of everyday objects, including shoes, a bathroom tap, an iced bun and a fried egg.