When Suzanne Lugano paints nearly nude models, she feels as if she’s the one who is exposing herself, expressing her emotions before the world. Whenever possible, she works in public, creating unique ...

Trina Merry is a fine arts painter. But rather than painting on a canvas or wood or any other inanimate material most artists turn to, she prefers something a little more… shall we say lifelike? As in ...

Painter and Model, Celia Paul, 2012. Celia Paul cried throughout her first sessions modeling for Lucian Freud. “The experience of being naked disarmed me,” Paul writes in her new memoir, Self-Portrait ...

Her female nudes were extraordinary for the time because she portrayed female sexual desire. Her subjects defied conventional ideals of femininity. Suzanne Valadon, "Self-Portrait" (1927) (Collection ...

It was pretty much business as usual in Times Square yesterday, where the usual cast of characters, costumed and otherwise, worked the possibly-doomed pedestrian plazas. Spiderman and The Hulk posed ...

Matisse’s The Painter and His Model—in the exhibition devoted to his work at the Eykyn Maclean Gallery in New York—is a candy box of a composition, a hymn to rococo excess. Set in a room in Nice ...

The British painter, Celia Paul, is an enigma. She is certainly soft spoken and shy, but under that is a fierce power that is at first unexpected, but then, as you get to know her, unsurprising. First ...

Suzanne Valadon taught herself to paint while modeling for Renoir and Toulouse-Lautrec. A revelatory new survey at the Barnes Collection shows what she learned. By Will Heinrich PHILADELPHIA — It’s ...