Category: Arts

Explore 13 famous baroque paintings, from The Night Watch to Las Meninas. Follow the action and telling details that give each story its force. Take a look.

Famous surrealist paintings turn watches limp and hide faces with apples. Explore ten works through the strange details that make ordinary objects feel unreal.

Explore 17 famous religious paintings through telling gestures, from Judas’s purse in The Last Supper to God’s reaching finger. See the stories in each work.

From Black Square’s icon-like placement to Blue Poles, famous abstract paintings challenged what art could be. Explore the choices and conflicts behind them.

Explore famous flower paintings, from Ruysch’s impossible bouquets to O’Keeffe’s vast blossoms, and trace the shift from detail to expressive color. Read on.

Explore 17 famous impressionist paintings, from Monet's industrial harbor to Morisot's sleeping child, and see how color shapes modern life. View the works.

From Dürer’s fine hairs to O’Keeffe’s spreading sky, these famous watercolor paintings span four centuries. Explore 14 works through their edges and washes.

Famous paintings of women reveal scandals, theft and private heartbreak. From the Mona Lisa to Madame X, explore the human conflicts behind these 17 works.

Explore famous landscape paintings, from Fan Kuan’s tiny travelers to Monet’s industrial harbor, and learn what each artist makes you notice. See all ten.