In art, there have been many eras, ages, and phases. Be it the Dutch Golden Age, or the Renaissance era, every art style has given the world masterpieces that are appreciated even today. But, like ...

In Becoming the Sea, nostalgia for the Rhine River of Kiefer’s childhood flows into homages to the Mississippi as a symbol of both industry and creative freedom.

Kamran Khavarani created his own art genre, but he wasn’t sure what to name it. That’s why he called Albert Boime, a late UCLA art history professor, who later hailed Khavarani as the leader of a new ...

What are we to make of Romanticism? More important, what has Romanticism made of us? The West’s major historical eras should not really be labeled B.C. and A.D., but B.R. and A.R.: Before Romanticism ...

Romanticism describes the era of the 19th century in which artists and poets strove for individuality and originality instead of conformity. Romantics rejected the traditional aesthetic values of the ...

NEW HAVEN — Is art inherently romantic? Wassily Kandinsky thought so. "It is no part of my program to paint with tears," wrote the great Russian painter, "and I really don't care for sweets, but ...

Roaming Europe, we admire stately Neoclassical buildings and dramatic Romantic paintings. Around 1800, Europe was in transition, reflected in two art styles. First, we visit Europe’s great cities with ...

A “museum of life,” José Ortega y Gasset called it. About that “indomitable fluid that refuses to be stopped, captured, saved,” but fortunately, he pointed out, “leaves in things the traces of its ...