Back when she was a university student, Sharon Stone lived the life of a starving artist, selling her paintings for $25 apiece.

This is the story and artwork of Francis Bacon, the famous, Irish-born experimental and figurative painter born in 1909, in Dublin. His paintings were a prominent presence within the art community over many decades following the end of WW2, after exhibiti...

Discover the science behind Leonardo da Vinci's masterpieces—and Mona Lisa's iconic smile.

A young boy with a phobia of the sea finds refuge in the home of an elderly painter. When he discovers the subjects of her paintings, he will be forced to face his fears.

Over the half-millennium since Hieronymus Bosch painted it, The Garden of Earthly Delights has produced an ever-widening array of interpretations.

What constitutes art? The Modest House Museum is facing pushback after displaying an AI version of ‘Girl with a Pearl Earring’ amongst other interpretations of the famous work.

Painter Frida Kahlo was a Mexican artist who was married to Diego Rivera and is still admired as a feminist icon.

Grant Wood was born on a farm in Iowa in 1891. After high school he studied in the United States and Europe and developed an interest in Impressionism.

American Gothic is a 1930 painting by Grant Wood in the collection of the Art Institute of Chicago. Wood was inspired to paint what is now known as the American Gothic House in Eldon, Iowa, along with "the kind of people [he] fancied should live in that h...

Zdzisław Beksiński was a Polish painter, photographer, and sculptor, specializing in the field of dystopian surrealism. Beksiński made his paintings and drawings in what he called either a Baroque or a Gothic manner. His creations were made mainly in two...

Bob Ross was a prolific painter who created and starred in the popular PBS television show The Joy of Painting, where he taught viewers how to create landscapes using the wet-on-wet technique.

After having his first art exhibition at age 13, Salvador Dali rose to become one of the world's most well-known and controversial artists.

René Magritte's surrealist paintings can sometimes be confusing. A great example of that is his Treachery of Images and its confrontational "Ceci n'est pas un pipe" or "This is not a pipe".

After Jan Matejko’s Stanczyk, here’s another sad clown, this time painted by Edward Hopper. In this video, we’re looking at his 1914 Soir Bleu.

In 1986, at the People’s Palace in Glasgow, Scotland, a local artist was commissioned to create a series of eight paintings for the domed ceiling on the top floor of the museum to commemorate the 200th anniversary of the Calton Weavers Massacre of 1787.