Modern & Contemporary Art

Ilya Repin’s “Ivan the Terrible and His Son Ivan” hides an unsettling story of violence, death, and madness.

Edvard Munch’s anxiety-filled paintings were provoked by his traumatic childhood experiences and troubled mental health.

Pollock, Rivera, Ernst, Kandinsky, and Hopper—these artists are well-known and celebrated. But did you know that they had wives who were equally-talented artists?

The world of comic books, nowadays greatly respected for its artistic and narrative values, owes so much to the artistry, the imagination, and the uniqueness of Moebius.

Rodin’s Kiss initially portrayed the scene from Dante’s Divine Comedy that told the tragic story of lovers Paolo and Francesca.

Rodin’s The Thinker represents both the intellectual effort and the endless torment of a creator haunted by the responsibility over his work.

In the works of African American artists, the topic of love is often explored through their contemporary realities of cultural and racial tensions.

Neo-Expressionists embraced the imperfections of both painting and the world around them, choosing subjective emotional outbursts over conventional forms of beauty.