You may consider yourself to be quite arty because you know the works of Mone, Picasso, and Pollock, but can you name at least half of the 15 most famous artists and painters who are alive today?

Whether you admire the emotional canvases of the Italian Renaissance or get curious about contemporary art installations, art has the power to breach boundaries, evoke certain emotions, and inspire ...

Portugal-based artist Untitled.Save, who goes by his first name, Tiago, re-imagined iconic artists and their subjects as urban hipsters. In Untitled.Save's pieces, the "Mona Lisa" subject is a social ...

It is no secret that Black visual artists and painters in history have often been leaders of artistic innovation, and the 15 named below are but a few examples from a much longer list. These artists’ ...

Have your art and eat it too! You've most likely seen these classic paintings, but never quite like this. Emily Zauzmer, a writer and production assistant for "Good Morning America," first started ...

Eighteen thousand years ago, our Ice Age ancestors practiced both cave art and cannibalism. Human remains found deep in a Polish cave bear unmistakable signs of butchery. These people came from the ...

TimesMachine is an exclusive benefit for home delivery and digital subscribers. About the Archive This is a digitized version of an article from The Times’s print archive, before the start of online ...

The trope of the tortured artist is a persistent one, dating back at least to Aristotle’s time. Many see the lives of troubled artists, from Vincent van Gogh to Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, as evidence that ...

This famous Beatle has gotten really into painting since the heyday of the Fab Four. In fact, Paul McCartney has been committed to physical artistry for more than two decades. His interest in painting ...

Throughout the 20th-century record sleeves regularly served as canvases for some of the world’s most famous artists. From Andy Warhol’s electric yellow banana on the cover of The Velvet Underground & ...