Contemporary Art and Artists

Be inspired by the paintings and drawings from some of the world’s best working artists with these guest blog posts, artist interviews, exhibition news, and more.

Shawn Dell Joyce shows us how to add realistic birds to landscape paintings in this episode of Art School Live with Eric Rhoads.
This Chilean artist pursues allegory and symbolism in her multi-figure compositions, often communicating messages with psychological and philosophical overtones.
"Being an artist is a true blessing. It’s a reason to get up in the morning," said pastel painter Judith Kazdym Leeds in this inspiring interview.
My work attempts to distill all I know of our formidable species and the natural systems that sustain us down to a sorrowful beauty ...
"Imagine Leonardo da Vinci and Georges Seurat meet in a field in France. Do they actually see the same things? Do they actually see the same way? The biological perceptual system — is it identical? If it is, then why did they paint so differently?"
Emma Colbert's boundless love for nature and animals combined with art and pastel painting has made her one of the most sought-after ...
Classical realism, academic art, the atelier method — whatever you choose to call it, it’s a fact that the tradition of realist art instruction passed down through the ages nearly died during the 20th century.
Read about the artist behind "Blush Arrangement," a scene of pillowy pink flowers at various stages of life, brushed by the loveliest touches of light.
The English artist and author David Poxon rejoices in the fact that Britain brought watercolors to global attention as a fine art during the 18th century...
I create oil on canvas portraits and figurative paintings that focus on redefining stereotypes placed on black bodies within society. These stereotypes include black people being associated with ...
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