Over time these react with negatively charged components of oil called fatty acids, which have been severed from the rest of ...

Philip Barlow's striking oil paintings show the world from a short-sighted perspective. Barlow is a master of "bokeh" — the aesthetic quality of blurry, out-of-focus photography. "To me ...

Seeing double? Hidden inside these remarkable oil paintings by artist Oleg Shuplyak lies a second layer of mind-blowing optical illusions. Behind carefully placed objects, characters, colouring ...

Scientists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology collaborated with the National Gallery of Art and other institutions to study the deterioration of an oil painting, entitled Gypsy ...

Alexandria, Va., editor and writer Jamie Gold with two of eight old family oil paintings that wound up with her. Her great-grandmother Adelaide is on the left, and her grandmother Madeline is on ...

NORTH HAMPTON, NH — New Hampshire native Debra Woodward is happy to present a show of her oil paintings at the beautiful new library in the town of North Hampton where she has lived for over 30 ...

Often in art, a closer look yields something more than initially meets the eye. These amazing oil paintings by Ukrainian artist Oleg Shuplyak show remarkable double images hiding behind dramatic ...

KABUL (Reuters) - Scientists said on Tuesday they have proved the world's first ever oil paintings were in caves near two destroyed giant statues of Buddha in Afghanistan, hundreds of years before ...

A MARRIED couple were left speechless after learning the staggering value of their two oil paintings on Antiques Roadshow. Art expert Charlotte Riordan was presented with two beautifully detailed ...

Vincent van Gogh’s broad, oil brushstrokes convey a sense of movement - especially in paintings like A Starry Night - so much so that a team of artists and filmmakers are trying to actually ...

Well that didn’t take long. The disastrous spill in the Gulf of Mexico has inspired its first artistic masterpiece: Deep Horizon, a series of “oil paintings” created by digital artist ...

JUST Stop Oil vandals threw soup over two Van Gogh paintings at the National Gallery after fellow activists were jailed for the same stunt. Three eco-idiots targeted the masterpiece displayed in ...