The artist opens a portal through which a viewer can observe the artist’s perspective of the world. The history of the discipline of mark making offers a multitude of perspectives from which all ...

With some key examples, according to four curators and three historians.

It can give hours of pleasure, with the possibility of making a masterpiece: so what’s not to love about taking up drawing and painting? As children we drew, and coloured in with wild sweeping ...

Find the best digital art apps for 2026, featuring drawing apps for artists with pressure sensitivity, brush tools, and powerful illustration software.

We’re losing traditional artistic techniques, one critic laments – but others say this view is outdated In a new paper, What Happened to the Art Schools?, the painter and art critic Jacob Willer ...

Microsoft Paint is no more. It has ceased to be. It is an ex-program. Or rather, it will be, once Microsoft gives it the shove from the Windows 10 Fall Creator’s Update later this year. Sure, it’ll be ...

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The painting and drawing areas at Smith explore contemporary art practices through a wide range of stylistic approaches that emphasize what makes each medium so exciting. We have two dedicated ...