This past July, at the Galerie Oberkampf in Paris, visitors to the “You Can’t Know My Mind” exhibition were confronted with a laptop and an empty chair. If they chose, they could sit down and have ...

In the 1960s photographer Bill Brandt put a twist on his portraits of famous artists — by zooming in all the way on just the eye. Here's a pretty weird, but kind of cool and completely random set of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This undated handout image provided by the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery shows a portrait of Jacqueline Kennedy by Andy ...

Jack Smith: Abstract Portraits (18 March - 31 August 2015) is the latest display at the National Portrait Gallery to focus on unconventional approaches to portraiture and will be the first time that ...

A new work of art is in progress for Princeton’s collections, and 25 students — and their skin tones — are representing the campus community in the abstract collection of portraits called “Synecdoche.

Recently the Benton has been holding a weekly series of 30 minute art lectures. This week’s was centered on the idea of abstract and realistic portraiture. Lead by tour guide Shoshana Levinson, an ...

Norwegian graphic designer and illustrator, Magnus Voll Mathiassen (a.k.a. MVM), can take any subject or object and turn it into an abstract, eye-dilating work of art. His latest pieces are portraits ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — When abstract expressionism was all the rage in American art in the mid-20th century, many artists thought the art of painting portraits was dead. Artist Chuck Close went so far as ...