Painting

An Artist Draws Warm Family Illustrations Showing What True Happiness Is
05:30 2018-04-23

There is some art that shows its creator’s soul. One of these artists is the talented Soosh. Over 200,000 people follow her on Instagram. And we understand why: Soosh draws some invisible but incredibly important things like love, support, and coziness. We gathered the best of Soosh’s illustrations about her family. We’re sure you’ll want …

Secret self-portrait of Michelangelo found ‘hidden in one of his famous drawings for 500 years’
18:06 2018-03-20

A self portrait of Michelangelo has been discovered – hidden in one of his famous sketches for 500 years. The sketch is disguised in a drawing of the artist’s close friend, Vittoria Colonna, on display in the British Museum. An expert claims to have spotted it for the first time. He suggests the caricature of …

Italian Artist Virginia Mori Draws Pictures That Can Reload Your Consciousness
05:13 2018-03-17

Artist Virginia Mori lives in Milan. She has a degree in animation and design. She draws very unusual pictures using ink, pencil, and pen. She has shown her book illustrations at many exhibitions and she also works on short animations as an illustrator and as a director. Maybe this is why her paintings look like …

New scanning technique reveals secrets behind great paintings
20:07 2018-02-18

Researchers in the US have used a new scanning technique to discover a painting underneath one of Pablo Picasso’s great works of art, the Crouching Woman (La Misereuse Accroupie). Underneath the oil painting is a landscape of Barcelona which, it turns out, Picasso used as the basis of his masterpiece. The new x-ray fluorescence system …

14 famous works of art with hidden images
00:04 2018-01-26

Many of the most famous paintings in the world are hundreds of years old. Even after all of this time, modern technology is helping us discover previously unknown “hidden” images concealed in the art. Using art restoration techniques, imaging technology, and even microscopes, art historians have been able to uncover some shocking secrets. People love …