Josef Albers (March 19, 1888 – March 25, 1976) was a German-born artist and educator.

An early twentieth century French etcher, painter and illustrator, Maurice de Becque studied art in Paris and was a regular exhibitor there at the Salon d’Automne.

Arguably the world’s most famous artist, what do we really know about Vincent van Gogh? We’ve all heard about the sunflowers, the ear-cutting, the madness, the suicide. But what is the truth behind the legend? In this BBC art documentary, critic Waldemar...

You've probably been to a Halloween party where someone came dressed up as Salvador Dali? And everybody knew who he was, right? But how did this famous surrealist artist become so iconic and so easily recognizable? And was Dali really this big artistic ge...

Leonardo da Vinci is one of history's greatest artists and thinkers. Only about 15 of his paintings are known to exist and one was thought to be lost forever.

Explores the life and times of the great artist and reviews his paintings, sculpture, architecture, drawings, and poems. Follows his work from apprenticeship to the call to Rome by Pope Julius II to paint the Sistine Chapel ceiling.

The 17th century artist, hailed for his use of light and for the serenity of his painted scenes, was a master of the Dutch Golden Age. For the first time, 28 of Johannes Vermeer's exquisite paintings – the majority of his life's work – have been assembled...

Violet Oakley was an American artist. She was the first American woman to receive a public mural commission. During the first quarter of the twentieth century, she was renowned as a pathbreaker in mural decoration, a field that had been exclusively practi...

Get to know the story of Artemisia Gentileschi, one of the most accomplished artists of the 17th century.

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...

Jean-Michel Basquiat was an American artist who rose to success during the 1980s as part of the Neo-expressionism movement.

This video presents artwork from ten different independent artists from around the world who have kindly shared their work.

In the painting, this music is being written on the ass of the damned by the tongue of a bloated serpent-man.

Bryan Lewis Saunders is an American artist who not only creates many fascinating self portraits, but has in fact, till the day of me uploading this very video, made at least one self portrait, every single day, since March 30th, 1995.

In 1864, the nine-year long effort of a mysterious and chaotic painting called "The Fairy Feller's Master-Stroke" had finally been released to the world, however this would not be by the choice of the artist.