Restorer Elizabeth Wicks works on the "Allegory of Inclination," a 1616 work by Artemisia Gentileschi, in the Casa Buonarroti Museum, in Florence, Italy. AP The curtains will finally be raised. Art ...

You might not have noticed if you’re not a digital artist, but most painting and image apps still get color mixing wrong. As we all learned in kindergarten, blue paint and yellow paint makes green ...

Thomas Brissot discusses his career journey and why he treats painting like acting.

To capture the essence of Pope Francis, we turned to Chicago-based artist Jason Seiler, a classically trained oil painter who recently taught himself to paint digitally on a 21-inch LCD display. “This ...

The conservation of old paintings is the latest slow and painstaking process that might soon be sped up by artificial intelligence. A mechanical engineering student at MIT has just debuted a ...

Scans of the painting during various stages in its restoration. At left is the damaged piece, with the middle panel showing a map of the different kinds of damage present; green lines show full splits ...

Good portrait paintings are often said to convey some sort of truth about their sitter. The problem, though, is that portraits are, as a rule, completely superficial. They capture a person’s exterior ...

Digital artwork has exploded over the past 10 years with graphics tablets and painting packages becoming more affordable and available to everyone. More recently, devices such as the iPad have taken ...