Cross-Eyed Morgan

Artist’s paintbrushes come in many shapes, sizes, and bristle types. Here, we share a guide to common brushes for acrylics, oils, and watercolors.

Painter Bob Ross is known as the king of happy little trees. He was known as much for his soft-spoken personality and fondness for small, furry animals as

The author of Frankenstein always saw love and death as connected. She visited the cemetery to commune with her dead mother. And with her lover.

From France, to Britain, to the world, Tussaud's waxworks endure

An illustration by Frank Netter done for the Ciba Company during the 1930s. Dr. Frank Netter was a surgeon during the great depression, though as a child growing up in Manhattan, he aspired to be an artist. As it turns out, Netter became both a great artist as well as a doctor and selling his artwork to his professors helped pay for his college education at New York University and two different prestigious art schools. Netter would open a private practice in New York, but the devastating financial effects of the Great Depression didn’t bode well when it came to his patient’s ability to pay for his services. Netter continued to sell his illustrations and paintings until one of his customers paid him $7,500 for a series of five pictures to be used in an advertising campaign. Netter had originally priced the entire series at $1,500, but for whatever reason, his client didn’t blink at the high price tag which for the time, was considerable. Netter quit the medical game in 1934 and became a full-time artist specializing in medical illustrations at the age of 28. Netter’s best clients were pharmaceutical companies which used his work prolifically during the 193...

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

This artist fights neo-nazis with food Credit, Cibo

Recently in Kawasaki, Japan, a sextet of famous paintings marched their way through the city's annual Halloween parade— Picasso's "The Weeping Woman," Vincent van Gogh's self portrait, Johannes Vermeer’s “Girl with a Pearl Earring,” Leonardo da Vinci’s “Mona Lisa,” Edvard Munch’s “The Scream,” and o

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