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 ...

When looking at an abstract work of art, ask yourself what it makes you feel rather than what it might represent, suggests artist Bappaditya Roy Chowdhury.

In Photo: Lucian Freud, born in Berlin, embraced powerful motifs from German New Objectivity painting in his early work and The derives from Eadweard Muybridge’s 19thcentury photographic studies of ...

The name of Chu Teh-Chun (1920–2014) should be no stranger to art market watchers. The late Franco-Chinese painter is best known for his poignant abstract paintings that marry the techniques of ...

A successful artist entering the twentieth century was more than likely a figurative artist, painting in a realistic style that is clearly derived from real objects. There was not much of a choice in ...

Is the School of London real? A new exhibition at the J. Paul Getty Museum features six prominent painters working in London in the decades following World War II, and it assumes as much — although ...

Art Works, in Richmond's Old Manchester District, is showing "From the Vanishing Point (Two lines go their separate ways)" by Karen Kain. To create her abstract figurative forms, Kain paints from live ...

Richard Diebenkorn is a painter who is well regarded in the US but not much known in Europe. This exhibition has brought across more than 50 of his works to remedy this fact. His early abstract ...

The art exhibition at the Bank of Valletta head office in Sliema has been labelled a show by the abstract painter Alfred Chircop - quite erroneously, as the exhibits prove. There are figurative works ...

Paintings seemed to be the best way to explain the perceptions, self-awareness by the four women artists in a group exhibition at Artscene Gallery in Karachi who also use their art to share their ...