It is impossible to know for sure who is depicted in Goya's Black Paintings, but there is evidence to suggest that the man in Two Old Men is Goya himself. Goya was a great admirer of the painter Diego Velázquez and this painting...

Frida Kahlo is the most famous female artist in history. She deviated from the traditional portrayal of female beauty in art, and instead chose to paint raw and honest experiences. A near fatal bus accident at 18 left Frida crippled and...

Andy Warhol made “Marilyn Diptych” in 1962, right after Marilyn Monroe’s death. By the 1960s Marilyn’s film career as a sex symbol was all but over. Warhol would effectively immortalize Marilyn as the sex symbol of the 20th...

The Taking of Christ is a painting by Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio. The subject is the moment that the son of God is betrayed with a kiss, and arrested in the garden of Gethsemane.





Caravaggio’s approach...

Women were excluded from almost all cultural and social resources in the centuries from 1400 to 1900 when so much of the world's great art was created. And visual art was almost entirely a male industry before modern times. Having...

Vincent van Gogh was a largely self-taught artist who didn’t pick up a paintbrush until he was 30 years old.



Just seven years later, he would

be dead.

It was really his last four years where he developed the...