Master Portraitist, Writ Large Himself
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âChuck Close,â about the painter, photographer and printmaker by the documentary filmmaker Marion Cajori, truly excels in its depiction of the physical process of making art.
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From Communist spy to distinguished professor to successful painter: Lawrence Martin-Bittman's biography reads like a novel, but it's all true.
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A surrealist drawing made an indeliable impression on a dinner guest 24 years ago.
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A specialized camera regularly takes pictures to aid with memory.
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Grubby prints left by the dine-and-paint genius help researchers decode Leonardo. In Furthermore.
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A portrait by Lucian Freud broke the record for a living European artist when it sold for Â£7.8m.
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You may not know his name, but you certainly know his work.
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A cheeky artist who uses his penis as a brush has entered a racy self-portrait for Australia's top art prize.
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The Art Institute of Chicago has spun a wonderful show around George Seurat's famous oil painting, which includes related sketches and works by contemporaries.
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A portrait by 16th century artist Raphael that went for $325 four decades ago sold at auction on Thursday for a record 18.5 million pounds ($37.3 million).
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Matt Sesow has taken a winding path toward becoming an artist.
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Brock Davis' intriguing 3-D self-portrait shows off the power of the game's map-customization tool.
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Arts & entertainment: The loquacious, likeable Frank Dunphy explains how he came to manage the world's biggest living artist and diamond geezer, Damien Hirst.
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The redhead in Needham, as Tommy Heinsohn affectionately calls his wife, casually passes a portrait of herself hanging just outside the master bedroom. The grand tour of the Heinsohns' ranch house does not ordinarily include this particular, private painting. But it's nearly impossible not to stop and stare at the young knockout with flowing, fiery red hair framed against a ...
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âChuck Close,â about the painter, photographer and printmaker by the documentary filmmaker Marion Cajori, truly excels is in its depiction of the physical process of making art.
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Andy Warholâs films, in retrospective at the Museum of the Moving Image, are records of a world in which an artist worked, played and built his identity.
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A painting has sold for 1,700 times its maximum reserve price as the winning bidder believed it to be a self-portrait by 17th century Dutch artist Rembrandt, British media reported on Saturday.