The great illustrator Frank Frazetta proudly wrote his personal credo: "I work purely from my imagination, no swipes or photographs....

Everyone talks about the importance of "restraint" in making pictures, but restraint is only meaningful if you possess something s...

"To live is to war with trolls." --Ibsen   Talented illustrator Austin Briggs painted a NY Giants baseball game for the April...

99.9% of our DNA is identical for all human beings.  Yet, there is enough variety left in that remaining 0.1% to make each of us unique.   ...

Years ago when I started this blog, one of my thoughts was to highlight a series of great horse's asses in art-- powerfully painted flan...

  Ronald Searle Oil mogul Armand Hammer amassed a large collection of paintings by famous artists.  He then decided to build a $70 ...

The Museum of Modern Art in NY is currently exhibiting a collection of envelopes which constitute a work of art by Alighiero Boetti,  pe...

Skeptics have long questioned whether Bernini's great sculpture, The Ecstasy of St. Teresa , is about a purely religious experience: ...