The world is divided into those who seal their comic books in mylar containers and those who do not. This division is more fundamental than ...

A mediocre painter who wants to portray danger on the road ahead is likely to spell it out, portraying the ominous cliff and perhaps even ...

Everyone thinks Albert Einstein was such hot stuff because he shattered Isaac Newton's classical model of the universe in which all matt...

Andrew Wyeth There may be no better test of what's inside an artist than their response to what's on our surface. The drama of human...

This week I played hooky for a few days to sit in on lectures at the Illustration Academy in Sarasota, Florida. The Academy assembles some...

Norman Rockwell recalled quite clearly the first time he sold out. Humiliated by his family's poverty, Rockwell resolved to make money a...

"The unutterable and the formless must needs be concealed" . ................ --the Pythagorean brotherhood, circa 500 BCE Saul St...

The painter Margaret Keane married a real jerk. Early in her career, Keane created a popular style of painting children with huge, sad eyes...

Pieter Brueghel's masterpiece, The Tower of Babel, 1563 I do not call one greater and one smaller, That which fills its period and place...

"Mistah Kurtz, he dead" Like Andy Warhol and LeRoy Neiman, Peter Max was a talented, hard working illustrator before he be...