Cosmo, a young French illustrator, has a style that manages to combine Art Nouveau, comics and neoclassicism that suits female subjects.

João Ruas, a painter based in São Paulo, Brazil, crafts ghostly, surreal scenes that blend mythology, warfare, and nature. Even his most peaceful works carry a mystery and sense of recent danger. In a new show at Jonathan Levine Gallery, titled "Geist," the artist evolves these themes and process. The show kicks off May 13 and runs through June 10.

The Milkmaid by Johannes Vermeer is a stunning demonstration of realism, color, and composition. I take a closer look at the painting in this post.

An artist recently reimagined Disney Princesses as the subjects of famous historic paintings, and the results are pure masterpieces.

Gustav Klimt (July 14, 1862 – February 6, 1918) was an Austrian symbolist painter and one of the most prominent members of the Vienna Secession movement.

Maud Lewis is the subject of Maudie, a biopic being released later this year as an awards contender. Canada's National Film Board made this charming 1976 short subject portrait of…

The French academic painter Hugues Merle gained acclaim during his lifetime for his idealised depictions of family life and of historical and religious subjects. He was often associated with his friend and rival, William-Adolphe Bouguereau; in fact, their shared dealer, Paul Durand-Ruel, urged Bouguereau to add to his pictorial repertoire Merle's interpretation of familial love, which had defined his most successful Salon entries during the 1840s through the 1960s. Whether imaging modern-day Madonnas with children, Susanna at her bath, or, as here, Mary Magdelene, Merle favoured emotion-filled, often seductive, facial expressions and languid bodies to connote drama and pathos. Indeed, his Mary Magdelene emerges as the enraptured captive of Christ's love. [Heritage Auctions - Oil on canvas, 45.1 x 59.7 cm]

Artemisia Gentileschi was a crucial Italian artist who lived from the late 16th Century to the mid-17th Century. She is known as a woman who broke many gender

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Divinized, glorified or hidden, discover the different representations of motherhood in art, a topic both intimate and political!

"While their resistance to fascism is widely lauded, their resistance to traditional gender binaries is less recognized."

Discover the Parisian cabaret stars made famous through the great artist's posters.

‘Dark Desire’ explores Henson’s enduring fascination with darkness and light, within works that alternate between landscape and figure subjects. Presented in a completely blacked-out gallery, the exhibition will consider darkness as a means of altering perception and blurring the line between reality and the unconscious.

June 2006. Homage to Edward Hopper's Nighthawks painting. Larger here: www.flickr.com/photos/naughton321/163555310/sizes/l/

The fulfilment of passion has been one of the great subjects of poetry and art, although seldom has it been treated with such a sense of carnal urgency as in this portrayal from the story of Mars and Venus by ...

The Moirai: the Fates, "Clotho, Lachesis and Atropos’ By Pavel Ignatyev (2011) #FaustianFriday

I used to believe that to give advice as an older woman, I needed to be the perfect role model - but that's a lie. Good advice often comes from hard knocks!

suffering and religion (references coming soon)

Despite evidence of the gut microbiome’s role in human health, researchers are still working out what shapes the community of microbes.

An exhibition of works by American realist Edward Hopper is drawing impressive crowds at the Grand Palais. Hopper is well-known in the U.S. for his pensive, lonely portraits of people sitting together yet alone. He's less well-known in France, but the exhibit has been a surprising success.