This live art-making class is inspired by Paul Cézanne’s watercolor painting Three Pears (Trois poires), ca. 1888–90. In this session, we will explore drawing basic shapes that are illuminated by a ...

This live art-making class is inspired by Walter Stuempfig’s oil painting Still Life (20th century). In this session, we will explore drawing drapery with a focus on the anatomy of folds and creases.

What does it mean to paint a bowl of fruit in 2026? For Kerry Bickford, associate curator at the Brandywine Museum of Art, the question is less quaint than it sounds. It’s one she has given a lot of ...

Before “been there, done that,” we had the expression “seen the elephant.” Originating from the potent combination of surprise, fear, joy and revulsion that Europeans felt upon seeing exotic animals ...

The Hyde Collection exhibit blends three shows from women artists across centuries into a unified exploration of the still life genre Sharon Core, "Boston Cremes," from the series "Thiebauds," 2004. C ...

Elegies: Still Lifes in Contemporary Art is a group exhibition bringing together an international group of artists who have disrupted or extended the traditional presentation of still lifes. The ...

Lines divide a surface, colors fill it. This age-old art-school adage neatly sums up the relationship between drawing and painting, while glossing over its inherent contradictions. Does drawing define ...

Purchase this and other timeless New Criterion essays in our hard-copy reprint series. In terms of public reception in his day, he might have done better to paint even more still lifes. In terms of ...

The Black body is constantly attacked, violated, dehumanized. So, what happens when it is completely removed from a work of art? When artists of color pivot the focus away from the body and toward a ...