Often today in art galleries and hotels or even in wall art one would find the rise of abstract art. While at first glance these are just an amalgamation of colours spread over the canvas without any ...

Contemporary figurative painting has commanded much critical attention in recent years, but a spate of abstract shows signal a return to non-objectivity. Ragen Moss, Senior Lender (with Mezzanine ...

FOR half a century art critics have undertaken to address not a sophisticated minority like the readers of literary magazines, but the mass of unbelievers to whom twentieth-century art is a mystery or ...

It is hard to tell if abstract painting actually got worse [after the 1960s], if it merely stagnated, or if it simply looked bad in comparison to the hopes its own accomplishments had raised. —Frank ...

Working its way through Europe this summer is one of the most explosive and controversial art shows in decades. Called “The New American Painting” and financed by the International Council at ...

In 1961, Piero Manzoni created his most famous art work—ninety small, sealed tins, titled “Artist’s Shit.” Its creation was said to be prompted by Manzoni’s father, who owned a canning factory, ...

A general interest in abstraction is being reborn, both in the superficial form of the movement towards the spiritual, and in the forms of occultism, spiritualism ...

In the early 20th century, as avant-garde painters broke with tradition by making their pictures abstract, Alvin Langdon Coburn set his sights on creating abstract photographs. At first he approached ...

Art is subjective. No one person can look at one piece and interpret it the same as another. Each and every brush stroke, line and dot holds meaning. And yet, despite that powerful message, I have a ...

Ruth Simbao receives funding from the South African National Research Foundation and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Dr David Nthubu Koloane, who was born in South Africa in 1938, was an ...