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In Ed Clark's painting 'The Crescent,' there is a band of color that runs through the center of the painting that looks like molten lava. This churning of brown, red, [...]

Manet's work of painting is used by Foucault to illustrate a new way of painting and the changes in representing and looking at paintings objectively. It is observed that the transformation from the traditional representation to the objects of modernity reveals something that cannot be represented.

The last American painters of colossal spiritual ambition were such artists as Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, Barnett Newman, Willem de Kooning, Arshile Gorky, Clyfford Still, Adolph Gottlieb, Robert Motherwell--the Abstract [...]

'Kelmscott Chaucer', a joint writing effort of William Morris (1834-96) and Edward Burne-Jones (1833-98), is always appreciated as a major achievement in printing. Their work represents a reaction against the mode of abstract painting that has dominated art since the mid-twentieth century.

ERIC BANKS: One of the things that strikes me about the way you came to artmaking Is how incredibly collaborative your work was in the early '80s. ALBERT OEHLEN: That […]

Many musical compositions have been based on works of art and literature. One prominent example is how Paul Klee has inspired Peter Maxwell Davies's 'Five Klee Pictures,' Giselher Klebe's 'Die Zwitschermaschine: Metamorphose uber ein gleichnamiges Bild von Paul Klee,' and Gunther Schuller's 'Seven Studies on Themes of Paul Klee.'

This article examines the style of mark-making in the work of Australian abstract artists Allan Mitelman and Mostyn Bramley-Moore. The author suggests that the small, expressive marks and muted colors that define these paintings are meant to inspire inward contemplation.

Carroll Dunham's paintings range from the grotesque to the comic. Crude, angry characters wielding knives and toting guns pervade his works, and so do blotches and blobs in the form of anuses or vaginas. Some of Dunham's works are also inspired by cartoons.

A black painter who grew up in a family of musicians recounts his experiences of how and why he started to paint. The tragedy he witnessed as a serviceman during the Vietnam war left him shocked. Working on many jobs and becoming homeless after the death of his mother, taught him to be humble. During his homelessness, he started painting jazz abstractions and portraits of jazz musicians. His paintings were displayed in arts gallery in 1992. His joining a South Hampton artists' association gave him the opportunity to present the Congo Square, which described the origination of jazz.

THIS MONTH, MORE THAN FORTY YEARS AFTER JAMES ROSENQUIST BEGAN CAPTURING ON CANVAS THE LARGER-THAN-LIFE, COLOR-SATURATED IMAGERY OF CONSUMER CULTURE, A MAJOR TRAVELING RESTROSPECTIVE OF HIS WORK COMES TO THE [...]

Sidney Tillim began his career as an art critic by answering a 'Help Wanted' ad in the back of Arts Digest. It was 1953, and at the time, he was [...]

Barbara Freeman, born in London, England in 1937, has created works in a variety of media but is best known for her paintings. Though outwardly abstract, her paintings are really attempts to explore how the world affects the senses in representational rather than pictorial terms.

There currently seems to be a revival of interest in abstract painting. Richard Kalina, Fiona Rae, Stephen Ellis, Jonathan Lasker and Moira Dryer are some of the painters who are bringing their own individual sensibilities to the abstract field. The artists and their works are discussed.

The monochrome paintings of Clyfford Still, Frederick Thursz, Sherrie Levine, Jackson Pollock and Andres Serrano and Joseph Marioni are evaluated from masculinist and feminist viewpoints. While some artists consider modernist one-color painting as masculine in orientation, others argue that monochromes do not contain inherent sexual meanings. Monochrome paintings which contain themes such as love, flesh, blood, milk, urine and intimacy are interpreted.