Romance has recently been all the rage — and I’m not referring to meet-cutes and butterflies, but rather the pursuit of ...

Throughout history, art has been a reflection of society, culture, and the human experience. Famous painters, through their remarkable works, have shaped the art world and left a lasting legacy on ...

Despite its French origins, the Rococo masterpiece has strong historical ... “The Dream of the Artist,” and the semi-fantastical painting is composed of distinct vignettes of dancing revelers ...

The UK government has placed an export bar on a painting by the Rococo pioneer Jean-Antoine Watteau (1684-1721) that once hung in No.10 Downing Street—marking the second time in recent days that ...

Xavier Bray, director of the Wallace Collection and curator, to pair a contemporary abstract artist with a French Rococo artist from the 18th Century. Two of Yukhnovich’s paintings are displayed ...

The Piper Bangs solo, "Fruiting Body," is one of the inaugural exhibitions at the new Megan Mulrooney, Los Angeles.

Rococo was perhaps the most rebellious of design styles. Often described as the final expression of the Baroque movement, it was exceptionally ornamental and theatrical – a style without rules.

He also resurrected the art of grotto-making, dormant since the 18th century, creating headily sublime aqueous caverns out of tufa and shells, pearls and quartz, feathers and ferns, cameos and ...

And I wasn’t bad at it actually. I still draw. I love to draw. But painting, no, I don’t do that anymore. But I love paintings — other people’s. ART21: And you have a particular fondness for Rococo ...

He also resurrected the art of grotto-making ... of 9/11 BRIAN SMITH He was equally at home in the perversity of the rococo. His fascination with grottoes was kindled in the late 1970s by a ...

The best exhibitions this week in London, from Donna Huddleston to Simnikiwe Buhlungu (September 9 to 16) - We pick the best ...

In the late 18th century, the French Academy promoted a severely Classical approach to history painting as a means to regenerate art—and in contrast to the perceived decadence of the Rococo style.