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 ...

The event, now in its fourth year, will showcase the work of more than 45 nationally and internationally renowned sculptors.

The art of our time, whether abstract or figurative, offers different rewards — an irony, an openness of form, a factor of unpredictability — which echo everyday life in our world. As an ...

Now figurative sculpture reflects profound anxieties over ... empathy or disgust rarely elicited by abstract cubes or hunks of metal. In our doubles, we recognize our own vulnerability or recall ...

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 ...

Some of the most striking photographs in “Art Now 2016: New Directions in Contemporary Photography” at the Ann Arbor Art Center are those that look the least like photographs — abstract ...

Alfred Leslie, the painter who began his career as a second-wave Abstract Expressionist before abandoning the style to paint in a figurative ... after which he studied art at New York University ...

Howardena Pindell, a multidisciplinary artist whose works include video art and abstract pieces that incorporate figurative elements, photographed in her New York studio on Dec. 22, 2020.Credit ...