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 ...

To come up with the Kandinsky soundtrack, Martin, Lampe and pianist Mikhail Rudy, who served as the show’s musical adviser, ...

Among the most well known and commercially successful American artists today are Kehinde Wiley and John Currin, both figurative painters of amazing skill, and both drawing inspiration from the art 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 ...

Artist George M. Clark, best known in recent years for his abstract mixed-media works, has taken a new direction into abstract figurative painting in his new show, opening Friday from 5 to 8 at the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...