Pierre Auguste Renoir (1841-1919) Renowned artist Pierre Auguste Renoir’s warm light-filled works, such as Luncheon at the Boating Party (1881), appear sweetly naïve. However, the apparent […]

Beginnings in France’s Second Empire (1848-1870) Like beauty in nature, beauty in art evokes an emotional response. Sublime works of art, like those found in Francois […]

Tiffany Studios is the best-known of artist Louis Comfort Tiffany’s vast enterprise operating under various names, such as Tiffany Glass Company, Tiffany Glass and Decorating Company, […]

René-Jules Lalique was born a rural 19th-century man in Aÿ-en-Champagne in the Marne region of France in a time before light bulbs, telephones, washing machines, and […]

The Early Years Afifa Aleiby is an Iraqi artist, born in 1953 in Basra, a city located in the southern part of Iraq. She began her […]

Michel Majerus’s visual style incorporates many influences from art history and popular culture. His works reimagine accepted styles and genres alongside graphics borrowed from youth subcultures […]

Tony Cragg was born in Liverpool, England, in 1949. He is known for his broad use of materials including plastic, wood, stone, metal and household objects […]

For the past five decades, Pat Steir has been an acclaimed figure in contemporary art history, known for her signature style of abstract painting. Sharing a […]

Paul Jenkins created paintings and other works of art that came to be highly recognized after World War II. Jenkins experimented with paint and his technique […]