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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

“The Figurative Pollock” which opened at the Kunstmuseum in Basel this weekend explores a lesser-known aspect of the legendary Abstract Expressionist’s oeuvre: his figurative paintings. “When you’re ...

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 ...

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