Being a prophet in one’s own land is a challenge that extends to artists as well. Carl Larsson, now one of Sweden’s most celebrated painters, initially faced little success in his home country.

“The ideas of these artists were especially influenced by developments in the art world in France at the time and many had pursued training and international exchanges in France.” Owen added that this ...

The canonical Swedish painter Carl Larsson (1853–1919) planted an Arts and Craft emphasis on pastoral family life in the nation’s art.

Stories of haunted paintings have circulated for centuries, and we love these tales because they suggest that the creative process can conjure something far darker than Vantablack. Do some ...

It took OHora years to develop a character into a PBS KIDS show. Here's what's next for him and 'Carl the Collector,' a ...

Carl Moll was a well-known Austrian painter closely associated with the Art Nouveau movement. Taking inspiration from the French Neo-Impressionists, he became a founding member of the Vienna Secession ...

In the late 1960s and early 1970s, the American cartoonist Crockett Johnson created a series of paintings on mathematical subjects. They’re based on theorems, laws, and mathematical figures, but ...

In March 1941, nine months before Pearl Harbor, Carl Holmstrom of Branford enlisted in the U.S. Army Air Corps. A recent ...

Carl Andre was a highly influential artist, but his death this week has revived memories of two of art's most controversial episodes - one involving his "pile of bricks" sculptures, and the other ...

The artist’s works are the subject of two New York shows, at the Metropolitan Museum and the Jack Shainman Gallery. By Arthur Lubow A London exhibition shows how the three painters circled one ...

Carl Campanile is a veteran journalist with the New York Post, principally covering government and politics. Before coming to the Post in 1998, he worked at The Staten Island Advance and the ...