The seven people depicted in the painting feel like real people in a real space, dwarfed by the dark background. The lighting, the monumental scale (even larger than “The Burial of St. Lucy ...

brown background, black hair and black skin,” writes Jonathan Jones in a review for the Guardian. “Yiadom-Boakye paints black people, and in the most hallowed of traditional European art forms ...

She came to painting only recently ... she shows the lower portion of a seated woman against a black background, her hands politely cupped in her lap, her spindly legs, tucked in school-girl ...

Today in cool discoveries on the internet: an artist who makes glow-in-the-dark paintings. The paintings are definitely as transfixing as they sound. Cristoforo Scorpiniti, based out of Italy ...