A successful artist entering the twentieth century was more than likely a figurative artist ... yet the advent of abstract painting was an enormous rupture that fractured how art was engaged in, ...

The same goes for Mark Rothko, whose explosive expression of colour aimed to convey basic human emotion over a figurative subject. To make things more complicated, abstract art can be broken down ...

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 ...

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 ...

Employing the term “non-figurative” to describe his exploration of vibrant color, he believed that all art could be considered abstract. Heron worked to make all areas of a composition into areas of ...

A 1990 oil and collage on canvas painting by Benny Andrews (Ga., 1930-2006) from the artist's America Series, a ...

When the Muskegon Museum of Art opens its $15.4 million expansion on Thursday, February 6, 2025, the institution founded in 1912 will do so with an amazing new gift leading the way.