After Song Dynasty painting, “Quail and Autumn Chrysanthemum,” by Li Anzhong, 2000, by Hong Lei (color photograph on paper) During the 20th century, Chinese people constantly endured devastating ...

Working from the figure, students will start by exploring semi-realistic styles and then begin to deconstruct the figure into more abstract shapes. Color, tone and line will be explored. At times, ...

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 ...

Have you ever looked at an abstract painting and wondered what the artist was thinking? A splash of color on a canvas can stir something deep or nothing at all. According to research from Duke ...

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 ...

"Rockwell and Realism in an Abstract World" Where: Norman Rockwell Museum, 9 Glendale Road, Stockbridge, Mass. When: Through Oct. 30 Cost: Adults $18; seniors $17; students $10; 6-18 $6; 5 and under ...

The exhibitions of U.S. abstract expressionist paintings on view at the Brussels World’s Fair (TIME, June 16) and making the rounds of major European cities as “The New American Painting” show (TIME, ...

Artists are always nervous before a big show, hoping for the best reaction … and fearing the worst. Andrew Rodgers has reason to be especially tense. “Our Memories as Water,” an exhibit of Rodgers’ ...