From early cave painters to Pablo Picasso to Roberto Longo, artists have long loved the expressive potential of a soft charcoal pencil or crayon. Each sweep of charcoal offers intense black color and ...

18 x 22 in. (45.7 x 55.9 cm.) The Corcoran Museum of Art, Washington, D.C. "Donald Sultan: In The Still Life Tradition" May 10-July 7, 2000 ...

Black holes have long captured the imagination of both scientists and the general public. These exotic objects—once thought ...

There are many black colors, black within black within black. Couple black with disturbing images like mass shootings or police riots, and black drops down even deeper. A black hole of images. Then ...

There are currently two exhibitions of Joan Mitchell’s paintings and drawings on the same Chelsea street. Taken together, they offer an extended examination of a painter’s process as her sensibilities ...

The mastery of materials is fundamental to the artistic process and the career goal of any artist in their chosen medium. Every method requires a different skill set and can evoke different reactions ...

RISON -- Artist Crystal Jennings often has company in the sunroom studio of her home in Cleveland County. While she's working away on one of her large, hyper-realistic charcoal drawings in one corner, ...

Drawings are usually humble. They can be quick, sketchy, disposable. A lot of times, drawings are the small preliminary plans for larger, more permanent paintings or sculpture. But not Xavier ...

In our late capitalist age of industrial fabrication and reproducible art, Myron Stout stands out as a reclusive figure who was never lured by these strategies. With monkish devotion, he produced a ...