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If one symbol represents love, power, royalty, beauty, sensuality, and mysticism–it is the rose. This slide show will focus on the prominence of roses in Western art from the first millennium BCE to…
Salvador Dalí
Here are eight paintings found in unusual places that turned out to be worth more than anticipated.
Surrealism was one of many art styles that emerged after World War I as artists, alongside the rest of the world, struggled to digest an unprecedented degree of violence and loss.
“A woman had to be a monster to be an artist”– surrealist painter/sculptor Dorothea Tanning
When American painter James Abbott McNeill Whistler’s (1834-1903) portrait of his mother…
Founded in 1879, the Art Institute of Chicago is one of the world’s largest and oldest art…
As temperatures rise to summer highs, one artwork seems to encapsulate our collective torpor better than most: …
Many famous paintings have gone by different names over the years. And the reasons as to why this has happened can be fascinating.
Surrealist artist Salvador Dali may be best known for the dream-like paintings he created throughout his life, but the man was just as strange as his work. Here are eight bizarre facts about the…
Join us in bidding 2021 goodbye with a review of our ten most popular stories of the year! Below, you'll find the names of our biggest stories, preview text, and direct links to each.
Before our annual "Best 2021 Articles" list, we wanted to share some of our favorite artworks that we covered in 2021. These artworks and objects kept our team engaged in and excited about the art…
Salvador Dali’s oeuvre often brings to mind images of melting clocks, lobster telephones, or crucifixion depictions, but late in his career the artist also created three floral suites.
Looking Back as the 700th Anniversary of His Death Approaches
Salvador Dalí: Gardens of the Mind will showcase mind-bending floral artworks, anchored by his fantastical series of color lithographs, Flordalí, at the Marie Selby Botanical Gardens in…
Paris, 1929: An avant-garde hothouse rife with artistic conflict and friendly rivalry, fueled in the wake of a tragic world war. Would painting survive the new experiments with photography, film…
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