For years after World War II, the type of figurative art that Kinigstein practiced co-existed with abstract expressionism — e.g., the drip paintings of Jackson Pollock or the color field art of ...

And then, the story continues, art began to grope its way back from this extremity: first with the New Image Painting of the ...

For years after World War II, the type of figurative art that Kinigstein practiced co-existed with abstract expressionism — e.g., the drip paintings of Jackson Pollock or the color field art of ...

American painter was the last surviving member of the Abstract Expressionist movement when he died at 101. Now, his ...

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. Sean Scully, “Eleuthera” (2017), oil on ...

Postwar art saw abstraction definitively push figurative painting to the margins, where it mostly languished for a generation. Pushback came from several quarters in the 1950s and into the early ...

Last weekend, LA art lovers had the chance to encounter them both. Kehinde Wiley had an opening of an exhibition for his new paintings in Culver City at Roberts & Tilton gallery, and John Currin was ...

This started to help me make sense of my unease with some of the new figurative painting I’ve been seeing. For me, Neel and Katz are exemplary figures, necessary reference points for any painter ...

The oldest figurative painting, found in caves at the far eastern edge of the island of Borneo, depicts a wild cow with horns and dates to at least 40,000 years ago — thousands of years older ...

Art World Scientists Have Discovered the World’s Oldest Figurative Art: a 40,000-Year-Old Cave Painting of Cattle. The art in a Borneo cave was dated using flowstone testing that detects uranium.

The oldest figurative painting was of a wild cow with horns that dates to at least 40,000 years ago — thousands of years older than similar figurative paintings in Europe.