“Reflections,” an oil painting by Scott Johnson, is featured in “A Connection to Nature” at Portola Art Gallery in Menlo Park. Courtesy Scott Johnson. There are so many great places on the Peninsula ...

Ying Li, “Telluride, Valley of the Hanging Water #3” (2019), oil on linen, 24 x 24 inches (all images courtesy Pamela Salisbury Gallery, Hudson, New York) I first saw Ying Li’s work in a two-artist ...

Eric Fischl, “Scenes from Late Paradise: Stupidity”(2006–2007), oil on linen, 84 x 108 in., Hall Art Foundation (image courtesy of the artist) Katherine Bradford, “Beautiful Lake” (2009), oil on ...

Aaron Schuerr has many descriptions to his name: artist, writer, actor, husband, and father. And while all have a certain distinction to them, one of those connects him to other people on a much ...

John Constable's The Hay Wain presents a bucolic view of England – but there's a dark side to the idealised rural image. Widely satirised and reproduced on everything from bath towels to biscuit tins, ...

India, April 12 -- At its most basic, art is meant to delight and provide joy. Yet, it also plays an important role as a ...

One needs years of immersion in Chinese culture, language, history and philosophy to be able to fully appreciate the timeless beauty and symbolic richness of Chinese ink paintings. Despite this, ...

A landscape painting called Wheat Field with Cypresses painted by Vincent van Gogh in 1889 Landscape painting is a well-known type of art that often shows a scene from nature, such as the countryside.