By the middle of the nineteenth century, artists were becoming more autonomous. They began painting more of their own ideas, ...

The new film "Death of a Unicorn," starring Jenna Ortega, features the mythical beast as a brutal killer. From purity to immortality, unicorns have been featured in works of art throughout the ...

Animals have a longstanding relationship with the fine and decorative arts. From claw-footed Chippendale furniture to William Wegman's photographs of Weimaranars, animals have attracted and encouraged ...

They helped to make Vincent van Gogh among the most famous and influential painters in the history of art. Why did sunflowers obsess him and so many other artists before and since? When we think about ...

A creative person who organically flows in, out and through various expressions of themselves is indeed a unique individual. You find them undefined by the medium they work in as they seem to ...

This segment is about how artists and writers rely on symbolism to help convey their ideas. The Narrator walks the viewer through a symbolic analysis of a photograph by Wang Fen, “On the Wall: Haiku 6 ...

AT the Friday evening discourse delivered at the Royal Institution on November 17, the audience had the unusual, but instructive, experience of hearing, in Sir Herbert Baker's account of “Symbolism in ...