Since the dawn of philosophy, thinkers from Plato to Kant have considered how beauty affects human experience, and whether it ...

It is not only the largest source of income for Aboriginal people but also, arguably, the most prestigious Australian contemporary art ... painting appeals to Western collectors of both abstract ...

By A.J. Goldmann Reporting from Humlebaek, Denmark The Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, roughly 25 miles north ... entire wing of the museum and include paintings, sculptures, photos and videos ...

Abstract art is more difficult. We are often unsure about what we are seeing. And uncertain of what response is expected. Can modern science ... a representational painting our eyes would stop ...

In essence, they arrived as academic figurative painters and left as abstract artists. Both were convinced that art had to occupy a place in modern society ... that their paintings not only ...

Raja Ravi Varma, often called India's king of kitsch, crossed the narrow lines of courtly painting. He brought the gods from ...

Plenty of evidence is on view in “Wayne Thiebaud: Art Comes ... one in Manet’s painting. While he is known as a figurative painter, Thiebaud’s artistic net extended to abstract painters.

Perched on Circular Quay and open six days a week, the MCA (or the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia ... will include more than 80 powerful abstract paintings, prints and drawings dating ...

Critic Clement Greenberg, the leading exponent of Abstract Expressionism ... mark his paintings as modern" as strongly as his gas pumps and telephone poles, writes art historian Ellen E.

Taken as a whole, Murray’s paintings are abstract compositions rendered in bold colors ... the Larry Aldrich Prize in Contemporary Art in 1993, and a John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation ...