The art of painting, like other types of art: books, cinema, games – is designed to tell a person some kind of story, a ...

The Met’s new exhibition on Siena—the first of its kind in America—shows how the possibilities of strange, colorful ooze ...

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Log Barn Haliburton 1929 by Alfred JosephCasson is available at Live Auction of Important Canadian International Art - artnet ...

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As part of our Guide to the Arts, which published in PRIME Magazine on Oct. 6, entertainment writer Phillip Valys offered his ...

His deserted landscapes, most frequently staged in the winter, are charged with feelings of time passing, of death, of the human condition, and of the loneliness and smallness of human beings before ...

RECENTLY, I fell in love with and bought a little oil painting online—a Swedish seascape in a black frame—to fit into the decor in my bedroom. It was somehow luminous but melancholy. And that set off ...

But the sturdy plate — inscribed with far more than the poignant words of Limón — also has a twin that sits on our planet.

It was a sweet and melancholy lament, chosen by Lady Sarah, but has a bitter-sweet title, The Desperate Struggle of the Bird - perhaps, in some way, representing the Princess's spirit and verve.

Radden, Jennifer 2012. Clark Lawlor, From Melancholia to Prozac: A History of Depression. Transcultural Psychiatry, Vol. 49, Issue. 5, p. 750.