Elmer Bischoff, “Motgomery Block” (1956-59), oil on canvas, 30 x 40 inches (all images courtesy George Adams Gallery) The curator and art historian Susan Landauer met Elmer Bischoff in 1985, while she ...

Sean Scully, “Eleuthera” (2017), oil on aluminum, 85 x 75 inches (all images © Sean Scully, all images courtesy the artist) When I became an art critic in 1981 ...

The curious gaze of artist Jenny Saville upon the female body, including her own, has made her one of the most celebrated of modern British portrait painters. She talks with correspondent Elizabeth ...

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 ...

The world's oldest figurative painting has been found in a cave, along with other phases showing a progression of human artwork, according to a study published Wednesday in the journal Nature. The ...

As you walk into the Boston Institute of Contemporary Art’s new exhibit “A Place for Me: Figurative Painting Now,” a sense of warmth and intimacy fills the room, unlike the traditional environment of ...

Vestiges of funk and neo-expressionist-dusted gestures live in his figurative paintings, often rough-hewn but empathetic portraits of young men, alone and in pairs and groupings. And yes, hints of the ...

Jean Hélion was a French artist known for his use of controlled color relationships and bold curving lines. He worked with both non-objective and figurative painting over the course of his career, ...

The oldest figurative painting in the world has been discovered in the Indonesian province of South Sulawesi by scientists from Australia and Indonesia The cave paintings on Karampuang Hill on the ...

Researchers say they’ve discovered the oldest known figurative cave art in the world, which changes what we knew about the world's first art. The rest of this article is behind a paywall. Please sign ...