When a Kansas City museum put a Vincent Van Gogh painting under the microscope, it found an unlikely intruder: a grasshopper trapped in the canvas’s painterly whirls for 128 years. Mary Schafer, a conservator at The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, came across the tiny dried, brown carcass in the lower foreground while studying the painting …

A charcoal drawing housed in another art collection for more than 150 years may have been a sketch for the Mona Lisa, a French art expert says. The charcoal portrait of a nude woman, known as the Monna Vanna, was previously attributed only to Leonardo da Vinci’s studio. But experts have found enough clues to …

Famous artworks have been reinterpreted in London using one of the best canvases for expression: the human body. Body paint artist Sarah Attwell has painted some of the world’s most renowned paintings on five naked models, including Van Gogh’s Sunflowers, Picasso’s Seated Woman and Edvward Munch’s The Scream. The beautifully painted human works of art …

A tattoo doesn’t have to be a huge skull or a group of nude girls. A tattoo is a kind of modern art which proves that pictures on the body can be beautiful and exquisite, not flashy and vulgar. Bright Side compiled a list of masterpieces that break all stereotypes. Little pictures that look as if they stepped from the pages of the fairy tales we used to read when we were children. #tattoo #vscocam #vsco …

Zaria Forman (previously here and here) creates incredibly realistic drawings of Antarctica’s icebergs, producing large pastel works that capture the sculptural beauty of the quickly shrinking forms. This past winter, the artist had the opportunity to be side-by-side with the the towering ice shelfs, observing their magnitude aboard the National Geographic Explorer during a four week art residency. The residency gave …