Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This undated handout image provided by the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery shows a portrait of Jacqueline Kennedy by Andy ...

In the 1960s photographer Bill Brandt put a twist on his portraits of famous artists — by zooming in all the way on just the eye. Here's a pretty weird, but kind of cool and completely random set of ...

Music's ability to express emotions or even convey character is accepted and understood. Abstract art, beyond maybe the connotations of certain colors, not so much. If you doubt the power of ...

He needs no introduction. His reputation always precedes him. The master of the “flash portrait,” abstract artist Barnaby Ruhe can legitimately be called a cultural fixture in the Lehigh Valley.

Giovanni Boldini was born on December 31, 1842, in the comune of Ferrara, in the Emilia-Romagna region of Northern Italy. Son of a painter and brother of an architect, art was in the Boldini blood.

WASHINGTON (AP) — When abstract expressionism was all the rage in American art in the mid-20th century, many artists thought the art of painting portraits was dead. Artist Chuck Close went so far as ...