What Art Can Tell Us About Love, Nick Trend, Laurence King Publishing, 208pp, £18.99 (hb) The UK journalist Nick Trend ...

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Beside it, in striking contrast, is Gustave Courbet’s robust “Self-Portrait (The Man With a Pipe)” (c. 1847-49)—evocative of blackened, coarsened stone. Nearby is Gustave Doré’s ...

When was the first landscape painting made in Europe? And the first abstraction? Art historians love these questions about ...

In order to fund the museum's colossal €800 million renovation plan, director Laurence des Cars has no shortage of ideas: ...

There is a long tradition of studio painting in art — Courbet, Matisse — but most ... It’s probably true what they say — that all work is self-portrait. But here it is the literal truth.

But I wasn’t the kind of kid who would get an oil-paint kit from her grandmother and all of a sudden paint self-portraits. I just loved to make ... and thinks about theory. The Courbet quote, “silly ...

Persona: Exploring Self-Portraiture will premiere at the Forest Lawn Museum in Glendale on Saturday, April 26. It will ...

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