Doc is a big orangutan with an outsized personality. But put a paintbrush in his hand, and the blustering brute becomes a soulful, sensitive artist. Not so Tucker the elephant. All energy and ...

Zoo Knoxville's resident artists have feathers and hooves and long, winding trunks. Some are dedicated to their craft. Many have individualized, sometimes temperamental, approaches to the creation of ...

Save Outdoor Sculpture, Idaho survey, 1994. Image on file. unsigned The information provided about this artwork was compiled as part of the Smithsonian American Art Museum's Inventories of American ...

Some artists — young and old alike — just don’t like realistic drawing. The task of portraying something exactly as it appears in real life can be daunting, and many find the process frustrating. For ...

FOR half a century art critics have undertaken to address not a sophisticated minority like the readers of literary magazines, but the mass of unbelievers to whom twentieth-century art is a mystery or ...

Abstract art often poses a challenge for many viewers due to its lack of connection to the physical world. Like other modernist art forms, it raises questions about how we understand and appreciate ...