Though the backbone of art was formed by academics that graduated classical artists, some of the most influential artists broke away from such academies to change the rules. Impressionists, led by Claude Monet, formed a group of artists originally rejected from the academies to paint in their own ...

I went to Guggenheim Museum on a Sunday afternoon. The museum has great architectural work and some really wild paintings. I saw an amazing painting with great colors by Pablo Picasso called "Moulin de la Galette." This painting seemed to represent high-class society. Apparently, "Moulin de l...

Pablo Picasso is one of the most famous Modern artists of the twentieth century. Picasso's work followed the style of Cubism. Cubism was a non-objective style of painting developed in Paris in the early twentieth century. It was characterized by reducing and fragmenting natural forms into abstra...

"The Portrait of a Farmer's Wife," the work of artist Robert Gwathmey, has been housed at the Dallas Museum of Art since around 1951. The overall size of the painting is 23 x 19 3/8 inches, composed on canvas with oil paints. Gwathmey's painting depicts an old black woman sitting on a chair. She l...

Upon visiting the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, I saw many different varieties of artwork. One such painting that caught my eye was Femme au Chapeau (Woman with the Hat), painted by Henri Matisse (1869-1954). The image was made in 1905 and originated from France. The oil painting on canvas mea...