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A painting technique that gives a glossy look to black objects.

Czech artist Alphonse Mucha rose to superstardom in fin-de-siècle Paris and abroad with his radically romantic posters and advertisements.

J.C. Leyendecker is considered one of the great artists of the Golden Age of Illustration—and this aesthetic inspired a new animated series.

For a decade, Irish sculptor Kevin Francis Gray has worked with a Pietrasanta-based family of marble artisans with a long history of replicating iconic Vatican sculptures.

A disparate group of thinkers says we should welcome our demise.

Auguste Toulmouche’s 1866 painting “The Hesitant Fiancée” is making the rounds on TikTok FYPs across the globe, inviting women of all ages to not only marvel at and meme-ify the bride’s pissed off scowl, but see themselves in it, too.

Using a collaborative oil painting process, Cara Thayer and Louie Van Patten create artworks that explore the poignant power of the human touch. In these works, hands and fingers are the protagonists — they have the power to make us squirm with discomfort and insecurity or long for a gentle caress. Thayer and Van Patten's compositions zoom in on various details of the body, presenting a form of intimacy that can be sensual and unsettling at the same time. Take a look at some of their artworks after the jump.

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Experimental photographer William Mortensen took this photo of silent film actress Betty Compton in 1922.

It is 40 years since Swedish pop pioneers Abba won the the Eurovision Song Contest. Abba: The Official Photo Book gathers together 600 photographs of the band – from their first taste of fame to their last recording sessions

caffeinated-zombie: avali: euclase: pausing from drawing to do a tiny lighting demonstration for the anon. i’ve marked the major light sources. YELLOW is the strongest. PINK is the same as yellow (the...

Here’s my Barrissoka version of that novel cover that’s been trending over at Twitter.

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Costumes, gilded details, feathered plumes.

sharing some more thoughts on composition this time with how backgrounds can really help elevate a piece

Many surprising happening in the world, but especially in the soul as people copy nature or delyut synthesis, or in other words - art