A former clinical psychotherapist from Greystones, County Wicklow, who uses an unusual method for his artwork, is among two ...

RECENTLY, I fell in love with and bought a little oil painting online—a Swedish seascape in a black frame—to fit into the decor in my bedroom. It was somehow luminous but melancholy. And that set off ...

Frank Auerbach, who has died aged 93, was an artist of remarkable intensity whose use of thick paint gave his work the ...

Ever since the French inventor Joseph Nicéphore Niépce produced, in the mid-eighteen-twenties, what is now the world’s oldest surviving photograph—a lonely, ghostly image of a rooftop taken ...

And art is one of the methods invented by humans ... Paul Valéry later observed how, to “dispel melancholy,” Berthe could be ...

The road-trip dramedy about two cousins finding their Jewish roots in Poland seamlessly moves from mirth to melancholy and ...

Meanwhile on Earth is beautiful, but alienating.

English gothic rock band The Cure, who was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 2019, released a new album titled ...

conjuring an atmosphere that’s warm and welcoming while also conveying melancholy. Opening with an extended instrumental passage is a Cure trademark, the most famous example coming at the start ...

There is something special about a peaceful folk sound that combines introspective lyrics and melancholy guitar chords to ...