Painting Joy at the Deepest Point of Tragedy Rather than focusing on death and suffering, ... In this painting and others, like “K.-6-1951” (1951), animal motifs emerge.

Her paintings were often derided by art critics, yet Siddal had only just begun learning, whereas the men of her circle had been honing their craft, under expert tutelage, for many years.

Contrary to commonplaces in art history, Mark Rothko’s “paintings are not about color or form, or the process of painting or the process of viewing, and they are not about abstract ideas ...

Ernst Kirchner: Germany's Picasso 05:39. The annual World Economic Forum that concluded yesterday makes its home in Davos, Switzerland. Turns out, Davos was also the home of a pioneer of modern ...

Art of the 1980s: A Decade of Hype and Tragedy. ... D.C., “Brand New: Art and Commodity in the 1980s,” displays these artists’ scathing and sly commentaries on the decade.

"I call myself tragedy of art," said Said Elatab. "The art is the only way I can express my feeling." Elatab is from Lebanon. His colorful work was designed to deal with his pain.

To better prepare undergraduates for life’s complexities, place tragedy front and center in humanities classes. In The Birth of Tragedy, Friedrich Nietzsche’s seminal 1872 study of the origins and ...

The extraordinary story of the legendary beauty Lizzie Siddal is both surprising and tragic, and led to a strange myth that persists today. Lucinda Hawksley explores her legacy.