The group hauled enormous framed paintings 2½ miles to the top of the hill. Nearly everyone was dressed in pastel-colored, tie-dyed shirts or other sunset-hued garb. The procession of artists ...

It may sound a bit far-fetched, but the researchers are not the first to make connections between volcanoes and art depicting sunsets. In 2004, for instance, Don Olson, an astronomer at Texas A&M ...

Whether it’s couples locked in a tender embrace or a still-life with sensuous qualities, throughout history, artists have used canvas and oil to capture the beauty and passion of love.

A group of scientists has studied the colors in more than 500 paintings of sunsets, including many of Turner’s 19th-century watercolors and oils, in hopes of gaining insights into the cooling ...

Bern’s Fine Arts Museum is holding an exhibition entirely devoted to sunsets by the Swiss-born artist Félix Vallotton. Sunsets were a recurring theme throughout the artist’s career and can be ...

But several of Turner’s other paintings also included evidence of volcanic activity. In 2014, scientists analysed the color of the sunsets in several Turner paintings from the digitized ...

To test their hypothesis, the scientists examined 554 sunset paintings created between 1500 and 2000, paying close attention to the amount of red in the horizon of each. They compared the ...