The growing prevalence of photographic images in the first half of the 20th century persuaded many painters to shift away from representing reality and to focus instead on expressing their own emotional reactions to the world. That shift is dramatized in ...

Action painting, textiles, photography — any medium female artists have tried, they’ve excelled in. Now an exhibition in Boston is giving them credit. By Julianne McShane By 1973, Linda Nochlin was a famed feminist art historian, but a portrait of her ...

An X-ray revealed Van Gogh's hidden face. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Conservators at the National Galleries of Scotland recently experienced quite a surprise after they X-rayed a ...

(CNN) – More than a half century after Pablo Picasso’s death, the master is still revealing new works. Art historians studying a Picasso painting uncovered the mysterious portrait of a woman hidden beneath the painting’s surface. The portrait of the ...

The scans show traces of a woman's portrait that Picasso had painted over in 1901. The Courtauld Institute of Art Researchers have uncovered a hidden painting beneath Pablo Picasso’s Portrait of Mateu Fernández de Soto, revealing a mysterious woman who ...