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Whistler's Mother is a very monochromatic painting. What happens if we add colors to it?

By putting a baby right in the middle of her painting, The Boating Party, Mary Cassatt goes against a conventional…

Previously, we talked about Bruegel's painting, The Harvesters, and we talked about how he's shifting where we stand in that…

How do we go about studying pictorial space? There's space in an artwork. There's space left to right, up and…

Pieter Bruegel's painting, "The Harvesters," is unique in terms of how it handles space. This painting, The Harvesters, was painted…

Previously, we looked at paintings where the artist had tipped up space. We saw some paintings where the floor, instead…

This painting, the Blue Room by Picasso, can strike us as a bit, well, disconcerting. Given the incredible angle of…

A look at the colors and pictorial space in this painting that create an enveloping experience.

“That is the most touched painting in the museum” ~ Security guard at the RISD Art Museum in reference to…

Perhaps the biggest decision in Paul Klee’s life was whether to pursue a career as a musician or as a…