In the 1950s, Jonah Kinigstein was on the verge of making it big in New York's art world. He won a Fulbright to Rome. His paintings got into the Whitney Museum's annual show of contemporary art (the ...

The figurative and the abstract collide and collude with startling vigor in Kate Vrijmoet’s “Essential Gestures.” This exhibit of paintings and drawings is Vrijmoet’s first solo show in Seattle — but ...

The oldest known images on cave walls and stone fragments are forcing a rewrite of who first made art and how sophisticated those early pictures really were. Far from crude doodles, these works show ...

Ivan Kenneth Eyre was a Canadian artist known for his prairie landscapes and compositionally abstract, figurative paintings using oil and acrylic. "Knowing that there was somebody seriously committed ...

The mind processes abstract art and figurative art very differently, and the experience of viewing one or the other can change the way you think, a new study shows. Our minds process events and ...

“Someone recently asked me how I navigate the space between my abstract and figurative paintings, which I often paint side by side. I said I jump.” When I became an art critic in 1981 one of the first ...

Two dates separated by 20 years loom large in Bay Area painter Elmer Bischoff’s career, which is currently being surveyed at the Orange County Museum of Art. One signaled a fresh beginning, the other ...

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BRATTLEBORO — Textbook descriptions of 20th century art movements typically trace a progression from Abstract Expressionism to Color Field, followed by Pop Art as a reaction to Color Field. But a new ...

Scientists have identified the oldest figurative art in the world, and it can be found in a cave in the Borneo jungle. Created more than 40,000 years ago, the faint image depicts wild cattle, painted ...