Albert Benoit/Wikimedia Commons) Séraphine Louis, better known as Séraphine de Senlis (1864-1942), a French “outsider artist,” worked as a convent maid before her work was discovered, and by many ...

Monet … Degas … Renoir. When we think of French Impressionism, it's the usual suspects who spring to mind. But one lesser-known artist is ripe for rediscovery ...

Line, shape, space, form, tone, texture, pattern, color, and composition are combined and organized in various ways to create what we know as paintings, but that process is often lost on the viewer.

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about conscious luxury, focusing on travel, well-being & art. This article is more than 2 years old. Nature speaks. So ...

From colorful pastel paintings to lifelike marble sculptures to otherworldly surrealist landscapes, the Harn Museum of Art’s latest exhibition brings 100 years of French history and culture to life.

The late Hubert Guerrand-Hermès lived the glamorous life of a bon vivant, a connoisseur of art in all its forms. He was, after all, the great-great-grandson of the founder of Hermès and a top ...

MUCH has been said about the mission of art and the artist. Art has no mission; it is only one form by which the ideas of a race or a nation find expression at certain stages of intellectual progress.

Working at the intersection of art and luxury, there is perhaps no more accomplished liaison than the French entrepreneur and collector Paul-Emmanuel Reiffers. Finding the frisson between the two ...

Editor’s Note: The CNN Originals series “Nomad with Carlton McCoy” debuts May 1 at 10pm ET/PT. The first episode, filmed in Paris, will include Mariane Ibrahim. When Mariane Ibrahim opened her elegant ...

Before the ravages of World War II, Paris was the center of the art world. The city’s salons, schools and cafes attracted painters from around the globe, with Pablo Picasso, Marc Chagall, Piet ...