Greek-French visual artist, Nektarios Aposporis presents his exhibition Elements of Life at Galerie Lefakis in Nicosia. The solo exhibition is set to open on Thursday, May 29 at 7pm and until June 7, ...

Many artists since Messina have also altered their recipes for oil paint, including Leonardo da Vinci, who liked to add a bit of beeswax to keep the color light. To Van Eyck and Vasari’s credit ...

For example, the sfumato technique and chiaroscuro were used to create dramatic contrasts of light and dark ... layers of thin oil glazes had been spread onto the canvas at different times, hence the ...

particularly the effect of natural light. For the first time in history, it was practical to produce a finished oil painting on-site, whether in a garden, a café or in the countryside (although ...

His body of work shines a light on Afro-Brazilian spirituality ... which are reflected in both his charcoal drawings and oil paintings. As an homage and for his blessings, the artist shared ...

The Cassirer family of California is hoping to finally reclaim a Camille Pissarro painting potentially worth tens of millions.

But for decades before then, the oil painting — one of nearly 250 painted ... He was so interested in capturing the changing light and atmosphere.” Even the famous water garden landscape ...

Rebecca Hellen, the trust’s senior national conservator of paintings, points to metal soaps, which have emerged over the past 20 or so years as a significant cause of deterioration in oil paintings.