Chagall's love for his first wife Bella, using his own words from his autobiography My Life. Chagall's artwork depicts both Bella in life and Bella in death. These later images reveal the love he had for her that never died with her. Marc Chagall has been my favorite artist since I f...

Two major movements in modern art are Abstract Expressionism and Color Field painting. The movements share two fundamental characteristics: the overall or generalized composition and a notably large scale. Abstract Expressionists concentrated much of their energy on individual brush stroke...

Jackson Pollock was born in Cody, Wyoming on January 28, 1912. He grew up in Arizona and California, and was exposed to Indian culture through his father. In 1929, he moved to New York City and began painting under his mentor Thomas Hart Benton at the Arts Student League. Benton exposed Po...

Video (3min 29sec): Andrew Newell Wyeth (born July 12, 1917 - died January 16, 2009) is an American realist painter, also known as regional art. He is one of the best-known of the 20th century and sometimes referred to as the "Painter of the People" due to his popularity with the America...