Here is a time lapse video of artist Elisabetta Fontone creating her second portrait of Marilyn Monroe. This second portrait of the famous sexy star was commissioned by a gallery in Canada and soon to be displayed for art and Marilyn aficionados to enjoy and a lucky person to buy and display in thei...

A slideshow of Vincent Van Gogh's work set to the song "Vincent" by Don McLean. It's part of an art and creative writing lesson plan for the patients at Mississippi State Hospital at Whitfield. Compiled by artist Anthony DiFatta, who also suffers from mental illness and teaches art to other adults w...

Real-time projection mapping. A collaboration between Japanese media artist Nobumichi Asai, make-up artist Hiroto Kuwahara and digital image engineer Paul Lacroix is turning faces into digital works of art. The Omote project uses projection mapping techniques to put make-up and effects onto a model'...

The starkness of a hand-drawn line—with its potential for lyrical beauty—is essential to Gustav Klimt's art. Through line, Klimt sought to convey the essence of the human form, and the nature of human existence. As an artist he wanted to explore universal emotions like suffering, hope and love; and

Art critic, Alastair Sooke, investigates the fascinating rediscovery of Leonardo’s Salvator Mundi, one of fewer than 20 surviving paintings accepted as from the artist's own hand. ‘Salvator Mundi is a painting of the most iconic figure in the world by the most important artist of all time,’ says Lo

In Loving Memory - Keith Haring (May 4, 1958 – February 16, 1990). Keith was an American artist whose pop art emerged from the New York City graffiti subculture of the 1980s. His animated imagery has "become a widely recognized visual language". Much of his work includes sexual allusions that turn

Shamsia Hassani is a femenist graffiti artist from Kabul, Afghanistan who's work depict the plight of women in her own country. After 20 years of occupation by the Unites States in Afghanistan the end of the war on terrorism has come to an end leaving many woman and girls at the mercy of the terro...

Jazzamoart (born May 28, 1951) is a Mexican artist best known for his painting which is mostly connected to jazz music in some way. Born Francisco Javier Vázques Estupiñán in Irapuato, Guanajuato, his talent was recognized early and he took his professional name from his dual passions of jazz and ar

Ludwig von Hofmann was a German painter, graphic artist and designer. He worked in a combination of the Art Nouveau and Symbolist styles. His work was part of the painting event in the art competition at the 1928 Summer Olympics.
Born: August 17, 1861, Darmstadt, Germany
Died: August 23, 1945, Pil...

“I feel humans have become disconnected from the soul of the earth,” says Dubai-based artist Sacha Jafri, who has created the world’s largest painting to benefit children in need. Watch the video to find out more about his initiative.