Painting

Graffiti artists in France and all over the world responded to the terrorist attacks on Paris by creating artworks with their spray cans to show their solidarity.

They have been painting walls and public spaces in French and all over the world using the colours of France, blue, white and red, sharing their works in social media under #SprayForParis.

See what happens when an experienced and artistic-minded photographer begins experimenting with fluorescent paints, landscapes and … nude models.

Naked black-and-white fully nude women in Substantia Jones’ images shows a world where images are used to confince women of all shapes and sizes that they are worthy of their natural state, rather than the opposite.

The Adipositivity Project views reality as art, making plumpness look natural in an effort to promote self-love.

But is it sexy?

In 1902, Hungarian artist Tivadar Kostka Csontvary created a painting called ‘Old Fisherman’. Nothing unusual so far. But if you place a mirror smack down the middle of the painting the nice old fisherman’s expression changes to a terrifying devil. The optical illusion is eerie.

The eighth International Painting Festival has begun in the Black Sea province of Trabzon with the participation of 40 female artists from 20 different countries under the auspices of Femin&Art, a female artist collective.

If you are living in Istanbul, or you have somehow happened to visit this beautiful historical city, you now have the chance of seeing some giant paintings made by mural artists from across the world.

The aim is to enliven some of the more subdued areas of Istanbul, replacing grey walls with enormous pictures, each telling a different story.

A painting, believed to be the famous 19th century French artist Paul Cezanne's 'Young Italian Woman at a Table,' has been seized in Turkey's northwestern province of Yalova.

Three people were caught allegedly trying to sell the painting, which has an estimated value of $150-200 million.

The originality of the seized painting will be examined by experts.

A Vincent Van Gogh painting fetched more than $66 million at a New York auction on May 5, the most paid for a work by the Dutch post-impressionist artist since 1998.

Oil paintings by impressionist master Claude Monet are expected to be stars of the spring auction season in New York, where Sotheby's believes they could fetch as much as $110 million.
      

A group of travelers who spray-painted their names on rocks in the vicinity of 8,000-year-old paintings on Be?parmak (Latmos) mountain near Lake Bafa have aroused anger from archaeologists and historians over the damage to the ancient site.