The charge of 20th-century expressionism

Although it only lasted three turbulent years, the afterburn of the Blaue Reiter...

Fernando Botero's fulsome and frolicking forms

Fernando Botero is an artist with his own style. For more than six decades, the...

The self as a subject is one of the most fascinating and fruitful of artistic enterprises. From the 15th century to today, this...

A hairless, ghostly figure on a bridge. The sky orange-red above him. His hands raised to his ears, his mouth wide in a haunting...

The painterly gestures of personal feelings
Hailed as the first American-born art movement to have a worldwide influence,...

Immerse yourself in the rich shades and textures of the mighty Titian, the most important member of the Venetian High...

G... , Grosenick...

Pioneered by Picasso and Braque, Cubism has been described as the first avant-garde art movement of the 20th century. With...

One of the key figures in the New York art world of the 1980s, Keith Haring (1958–1990) created a signature style that blended...

Diego Rivera (1886–1957) is a loud presence on the art historical stage. With devout political principles and a turbulent...

Lucian Freud (1922-2011) was interested in the telling of truths. Always operating outside the main currents of 20th-century art,...

Discover the artist who applied paint according to the world around him and bridged the transition from Realism to Impressionism....

Painter, sculptor, writer, filmmaker, and all-round showman Salvador Dali (1904-1989) was one of the 20th century's greatest...

Largely self-taught as an artist, Francis Bacon (1909-1992) developed a unique ability to transform interior and unconscious...

When art went Whaam!

American painter Roy Lichtenstein (1923–1997) pioneered a new epoch in American art, bursting onto a...

Pierre Koenig’s modern materials

There are few images of 20th-century architecture more iconic than the nighttime view of Case...

Louis Isadore Kahn and a luminous modernist language

Louis Isadore Kahn (1901-1974) treated each building like a temple....

Fiell... , Fiell...

The life and work of Glasgow School pioneer Charles Rennie Mackintosh

Scottish architect, designer, and painter Charles Rennie...

Changing the course of 20th-century art

When is a urinal no longer a urinal? When Marcel Duchamp (1887-1968) declared it to...

The onset of Expressionism
In the German city of Dresden on June 7, 1905, the foundation of the Die Brucke artists’ group...

A colorful exploration of the life and work of Gerhard Richter
An encounter with Gerhard Richter, the German artist who widened...

Hagen... , Hagen...

From court portraits for the Spanish royals to horrific scenes of conflict and suffering, Francisco Jose de Goya y Lucientes...

Poets and intellectuals brushed shoulders in bustling coffeehouses, young avant-gardists heralded a new era in social and sexual...

Italian architect and designer Gio Ponti (1891-1979) is difficult to pin down. With an extraordinarily prolific output and...

Often imitated but never equaled, Jan van Eyck (c. 1390-1441) left an indelible impression on Renaissance art and paved the way...

One of the leading lights of the Impressionist movement, Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841-1919) remains a towering figure in art...

Andy Warhol (1928-1987) is hailed as the most important proponent of the Pop art movement. A critical and creative observer of...

Abstraction shook Western art to its core. In the early part of the 20th century, it refuted the reign of clear, indisputable...

Through eye-popping colors and simple forms, rejoice in the restless creativity and infectious energy of Henri Matisse, the...

The arresting pictures of Frida Kahlo (1907-54) were in many ways expressions of trauma. Through a near-fatal road accident at...

A polymath of the German Renaissance, Albrecht Durer (1471-1528) was a prolific artist, theorist, and writer whose works explored...