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Photo shows: The landscape surrounding the Santa Katerina Monastery....

Belgian Surrealist René Magritte’s masterpiece The Castle of the Pyrenees was commissioned by the artist’s longtime friend, the international lawyer, poet, and author Harry Torczyn...

In the field of French art, both academic and avant-garde, the 1880s were an unusually turbulent decade. The last official state-sponsored Salon, an institution that had been in ex...

Jackson Pollock, a leading exponent of Abstract Expressionism, is best known for his "drip" or "action" paintings of 1947–1951. To produce these works, Pollock spread large canvase...

The macabre, nightmarish bodily distortions in Bacon’s paintings are reflections of the violence and desolation he saw as endemic to the human condition. Although links with Surrea...

“What I wanted was to make of Impressionism something solid and durable, like the art of museums.” With this aim in mind Cézanne, one of the participants in the first Impressionist...