Arts & Entertainment

A pioneer of everything from found objects to silkscreening, artist Robert Rauschenberg served as a significant source of inspiration for several different artistic disciplines ...

Form is one of the principles of art that dictates how artists represent dimensional shapes in two-dimensional or three-dimensional art.

Tenebrism is a dramatic painting style associated with seventeenth-century Italian and Spanish visual art.

If you've ever watched a biographical film about the life of a famous person, chances are you’ve watched a biopic. But what exactly makes a biopic a biopic?

Van Gogh was a Dutch post-Impressionist painter whose work, most famously Starry Night, gained notoriety posthumously in the late twentieth century.

Award-winning filmmaker Mira Nair has directed, written, and produced several documentary and narrative films.

The Renaissance art movement produced many significant trends, and chief among them was the moral philosophy known as humanism. This philosophy greatly influenced art of the per...

Bauhaus design was born out of an influential German school of the fine and applied arts that opened immediately following World War I. The school closed with the events leading...

Roughly concurrent with the much-studied Italian Renaissance of the fifteenth century, a distinct artistic movement swept through many parts of Northern Europe and produced time...