Miyoko Ito survived an earthquake, incarceration and illness. Her transportive paintings defied ideas about abstract art.

There are many competing narratives about what happened in American art after Pop Art eclipsed Abstract Expressionism ... of American Landscape Painting at the Center for Figurative Painting ...

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 ...

[Photo/Courtesy of artist and gallery] Xu Chenyang's artistic transition from the figurative to abstract surprised those who knew his paintings. For decades, the artist worked to blend the ...

There are angular limbs and long skinny fingers, and where these figures reside seems entirely abstract. This particular work is a fine introduction to Kuiper’s signatures: African mask-like faces, ...

As this exhibition reveals, these fledgeling works nonetheless contain the seeds of Kusama’s later practice of translating her visions and inner perceptions into figurative, abstract forms.

Harvard Radcliffe Institute’s exhibition “A Female Landscape and the Abstract Gesture,” curated by Chassidy A. Winestock — a History of Art and Architecture PhD candidate at Harvard — as ...

With the exception of Monet, few artists in this period made landscape paintings as radical ... topiary foreshadows the prominent wholeness of Abstract Expressionist painting, especially Pollock ...