Do expensive oil paints actually make better art,or is it all marketing? In this experiment, a fine artist compares cheap and ...

Artist Barbara Heintz has traveled the world over, yet she finds her inspiration right here at home. "Scenes of Maine are right on my doorstep," the York artist says. "They just inspire me to paint." ...

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In his 1550 volume Lives of the Artists, painter and architect Giorgio Vasari snuck in praise for the Flemish artist Jan van Eyck in his chapter on the Italian painter Antonello da Messina. Vasari ...