Painting

April 29, 2026

Artist Disrupts Realistic Portraits With Dripping Paint To Explore Identity and Perception

French artist Christel Delrieu-Pétraud creates striking portraits that seem to dissolve as you look at them, merging precise craftsmanship with cascading layers of paint. She starts each composition with a carefully rendered face, then disrupts it with vertical drips that pull the image downward and transform it into something fluid and unstable. Through this process, she challenges traditional portraiture and shifts away from fixed identity toward a more open, perceptual experience.

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April 22, 2026

Museum Invites Artists To Cover Gallery Walls in Colorful Murals for a Limited Time

Some of the most famous murals in the world are maintained and celebrated throughout history, but most are meant to be ephemeral. They exist only for a few months or weeks until the wall is repainted or the pigments simply give in to the elements. Mural artists often factor this limited shelf life into their compositions, drawing parallels between the temporality of their work with life itself.

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April 9, 2026

Artist Visualizes the Universal “Inner Landscape“ of the Human Mind

For most artists, painting a human head is a matter of rendering a portrait of someone that captures their facial features and expressions. For Chilean-born, Portugal-based painter Katarina Abovic, it’s a far more introspective experiment; an attempt at translating and showing what goes on inside our brains. “For me, the head is never only a portrait,” Abovic tells My Modern Met.

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My Modern Met

Celebrating creativity and promoting a positive culture by spotlighting the best sides of humanity—from the lighthearted and fun to the thought-provoking and enlightening.