"Start gentle at the top, and then tap a little more," instructed artist Chris Severn. It's the beginnings of a happy scene inside a Friday night Wescosville Art Class. "Every tree needs a buddy," ...

Lois Dodd, "White Echinacea + Butterflies" (1997-98), oil on linen, 36 x 58 inches (all images courtesy Center for Figurative Painting) There are many competing narratives about what happened in ...

Landscape Painting Now: From Pop Abstraction to New Romanticism, by Barry Schwabsky (DAP, April 2019) Art critic Barry Schwabsky’s new book, Landscape Painting Now: From Pop Abstraction to New ...

Shara Hughes, whose invented landscapes have intoxicated me since I saw one nearly 10 years ago, is at a turning point. At 42, she’s getting married to her longtime partner and fellow artist, Austin ...

Romantic artists often used sunset, twilight, and moonlight to explore emotions and spirituality in nature. The transition from day to night in art can symbolize continuity, romance, or even ...

For generations of painters and admirers, rare and seldom-displayed landscape painting from China’s Song dynasty rank among the most outstanding achievements of Chinese culture. On view May 17–Oct. 26 ...

Injecting color into the landscape doesn’t have to be difficult or a budget-buster — and color can come from a variety of sources. In furniture, garden art, paint, pots, tile and, of course, plants, ...

The setting sun’s multi-faceted reflection on the water draws the viewer into the sweeping landscape of The Eternal Now, Saint Mary’s Lake, as if s/he were wandering toward the mountains, peering into ...

A landscape painting called Wheat Field with Cypresses painted by Vincent van Gogh in 1889 Landscape painting is a well-known type of art that often shows a scene from nature, such as the countryside.