Painting & Paintings

Georgia OKeeffe (18871986) was a major figure in modern American art for some seven decades. Importantly, her fame was not associated with shifting...

Most commonly associated with the birth of the Impressionist movement in mid-19th-century Paris, Edgar Degas (18341917) in fact defied easy categor...

Paul Gauguin (18481903) was not cut out for finance. Nor did he last particularly long in the French Navy, or as a tarpaulin salesman in Copenhagen...

Discover how scenes of daily life and delicate dabs of color shocked the art world establishment. In this TASCHEN Basic Art introduction to Impress...

In our imaginings of Paris, painter and graphic artist Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (18641901) has no small role to play. In his prints, posters, pain...

With a career spanning seven decades, Catalan-born Joan Miró (18931983) was a polymath giant of modern art, producing masterworks across painting, ...

Vincent van Goghs story is one of the most tragic in art history. Today, he is celebrated the world over as one of the most important painters of a...

Today, the works of Vincent van Gogh (18531890) are among the most well known and celebrated in the world. In Sunflowers, The Starry Night, Self-Po...

In the latter half of the 19th century, in the verdant countryside near Aix-en-Provence, Paul Cézanne (18391906), busily plied his brush to landsca...

The rebel hero of Abstract Expressionism, Jackson Pollock (19121956) careened through his life like a firework across the American art landscape. C...

Although it only lasted three turbulent years, the afterburn of the Blaue Reiter (19111914) movement exerted a tremendous influence on the developm...

Illustrated with 167 full colour images, this landmark book charts Alexander Moffats career from student days at Edinburgh College of Art in the 19...

From court portraits for the Spanish royals to horrific scenes of conflict and suffering, Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes (17461828) made a mark...

To his contemporaries in late 16th-century Venice, El Greco (1541­1614) was a contrary fellow, an innate artist blessed with extraordinary talent, ...

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (18801938) is regarded as one of the key figures in 20th-century European art. A Modernist to his bones, he sent seismic wave...

Italian-born Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni (14751564) was a tormented, prodigiously talented, and God-fearing Renaissance man. His man...

Court painter to King Philip IV of Spain, Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez (June 1599 August 6, 1660) is not only a leading light of the Spani...

This opulent catalog is the first major publication to cover the principal estate of Erfurt-born landscape painter Friedrich Nerly (18071878). The ...

Susie Hamiltons dynamic practice is concerned with a wide range of subjects but often focuses on solitary people in impersonal public spaces or nat...

Joy Labinjo (b.1994) is a British-Nigerian artist based in London. Bringing together paintings made between 2017 and 2024, this monograph coincides...

This devotional featuring inspirational oil paintings by artist Jenny Highsmith invites readers to look up, breathe deep, and feel the peace and pr...