From early cave painters to Pablo Picasso to Roberto Longo, artists have long loved the expressive potential of a soft charcoal pencil or crayon. Each sweep of charcoal offers intense black color and ...

One of the founders of the Impressionist art movement, Pierre-Auguste Renoir is known for capturing intimate and joyful ...

In 1975, charcoal sketches were discovered on the walls of a secret room — hidden below a trapdoor inside Florence's Medici Chapel. Scholars are torn on whether the drawings are by Michelangelo. Good ...

Researchers recently dated these two charcoal-drawn figures on the walls of Gua Sireh. Andrea Jalandoni Hundreds of charcoal sketches adorn the walls of Gua Sireh Cave, located on the island of Borneo ...

This new survey – on now at Palazzo Collicola, Spoleto – is as much about Kentridge’s creative and conceptual process as ...

Red Dead Redemption 2, released in 2018, has managed to maintain a loyal following despite the passing of several years since its initial release. Fans continue to explore the open world of RDR2, ...

A Reddit user named NabeelaTheArtist has shared this special charcoal drawing to commemorate the 10-year anniversary of The Last of Us. They claim to have spent 300 hours making this incredible piece ...

BEIRUT (Reuters) - A woman curls up in grief in a darkened room - an artist's image as powerful as any of the thousands of photos and videos from Syria's civil war flashing across the world's computer ...

William Kentridge needed an intuitive medium to express the absurdities and injustices of apartheid-era South Africa. He chose charcoal: A black, burned, semi-destroyed material that can easily be ...

The fate of 40 Mississippian cave drawings in unknown after historic flooding at Dunbar Cave last month. The drawings are coated in mud.

ROME (Reuters) - Archaeologists in the ancient Roman city of Pompeii near the city of Naples have uncovered charcoal sketches drawn by children as young as six years old, depicting possibly violent ...