Not to be dissuaded from owning a work by Frida, he commissioned her to paint a similar self-portrait. A week later she unveiled Self-portrait With Monkey.

Yet, we do have the British artist Celia Paul, who paints portraits, a chair, one bed, the sea, a window, the tree out her ...

In fact, the self-portrait was an important weapon in the battle for recognition of painting as a liberal art. It still came easier to painters than it did to sculptors, which they frequently used in ...

Part 2: NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams sit down with 'America's Newsroom' co-anchor Bill Hemmer for their first interview since returning to Earth, detailing their experience being ...

“I paint self-portraits because I am so often alone,” she once famously said, “and because I am the person I know best.” Kahlo’s art, and the complicated reasons behind it, are the focus ...