An oil painter also needs to be good at blending, giving texture, and should be extremely patient, as oil paints dry slowly. Here are 6 most famous oil paintings ever created.

1. Georgia O'Keeffe – The Beyond, 1972. Georgia O’Keeffe (1887-1986) The Beyond, 1972, oil on canvas, 30 x 40 in Often heralded as the "Mother of American modernism", Georgia O'Keeffe is well known ...

Story at a glance “Girl with a Pearl Earring” is a famous oil painting by Johannes Vermeer, a Dutch artist of the Golden Age. It was originally painted around 1665 but has since been restored ...

The group said Monday that the two activists chose to target Velázquez’s 17th century oil painting, one of the Spanish artist’s most celebrated masterpieces, because it was previously slashed ...