The painter Nieves González reworks Baroque-era painting codes with contemporary sitters in puffer coats, pool inflatables, ...

The remarkable Roman Egypt-era work represents some the earliest realistic portrait paintings still in existence today.

Installation view of “The Forever Now: Contemporary Painting in an Atemporal World” at The Museum of Modern Art, New York (December 14, 2014-April 5, 2015). Photo ...

Installation view of Now! Young Painting in Germany at the Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz; Sabrina Haunsperg, “Ohne Titel (2019) Oil on canvas 90 x 110 cm (image courtesy ...

Sprung has had a long career in figurative painting, including paintings for Congress, and has a connection to past-White House portraits: When she was younger, she developed an artistic relationship ...

In "A Midsummer Afternoon Dream" (detail view), artist Amy Sherald uses a grayscale rendering to portray a woman of color, a bold move away from verisimilitude that highlights the personhood of the ...

It has become fashionable to say that painters are returning to realism. Such talk is almost always accompanied by skeptical remarks about difficult or obscure art and observations on the bankruptcy ...

An art handler views Portrait of Elisabeth Lederer by Gustav Klimt during a press preview at Sotheby’s in New York City on Nov. 7. (Alexi Rosenfeld/Getty Images) A painting by Gustav Klimt just became ...