Amy Sillman is an influential contemporary American painter whose practice conflates the abstract and the figurative into large-scale, gestural oil paintings ... in 2013 at the Institute of ...

The Art Gallery at Congdon Yards will present “FRANK CAMPION now & then — paintings and works on paper: 2024-1979.” This retrospective spans the artist’s exploration into painterly abstraction with ...

Abstract painting is a hardy perennial of the art world. Trends may come and go, but the practice of translating visual ...

Lucian Freud was one of the major figurative painters of the 20th century. Working in an uncompromisingly confrontational style, his portraits and nudes were rendered with a thickly laden brush. Often ...

"I always think of Kandinsky, and his shift from figurative works to sheer abstraction," says Ling, referring to the father of abstract art who began his career painting colorful landscapes.

Cultures across the globe have used non-figurative, but highly symbolic, decoration for centuries. While abstract ... painting and sculpture, their vision was of an art of the everyday ...

A new scientific study is challenging long-held beliefs about Jackson Pollock and his iconic “drip paintings ... revolutionary art. Pollock became a leading figure of the Abstract Expressionist ...