A famous riposte: Gertrude Stein did not like the 1905-06 portrait that Pablo Picasso painted of her. Stein claimed it didn’t look like her, to which the artist responded: “It will.” What the artist ...

The central question of portraiture is how to best turn its subjects inside out — how to best manipulate an inanimate medium so as to capture an animate sitter with a hidden history of invisible ...

LATE in life, Paul Cézanne told his art dealer Ambroise Vollard that “the culmination of all art is the human face.” It’s a peculiar assertion, coming from the master of landscape and still-life, whom ...

In a magnificent room down a hall of vaulted ceilings and Greek revival architecture of the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery, hangs a painting of an iconic Puerto Rican political figure unveiled ...

Still capture from “A Portrait of Berenice Sarmiento Chávez” by Hugo Crosthwaite (Image courtesy the artist, Luis De Jesus Los Angeles, and the Smithsonian.) “Trailblazer (A Dream Deferred)” (2017) by ...

There’s a famous myth from Greek antiquity that places the invention of drawing and painting in the hand of a young woman whose lover was about to leave her. To remember him, she shines a lamp on his ...

FARGO - Kelsey Sargent approaches family portraits with a modern mindset. The 28-year-old Minnesota State University Moorhead graduate uses her graphic design skills to create clean-lined cartoon-like ...

A Gustav Klimt portrait painting that helped save the life of its Jewish subject during the Holocaust sold Tuesday for $236.4 million, a record for a modern art piece. Klimt’s “Portrait of Elisabeth ...