Some artists — young and old alike — just don’t like realistic drawing. The task of portraying something exactly as it appears in real life can be daunting, and many find the process frustrating. For ...

Figurative painting, it seems, is destined to be contemporary art’s perennial sidepiece: always available for a fling, never for very long. The last time one could admit to a passion for it without ...

Detail of a painting by Ha Chong-Hyun, from the “Conjunction” series, hanging in his studio. In recent years, the Dansaekhwa movement in Korea has been having a moment, to say the least. The abstract ...

Today, the definition of art is almost infinite. Various forms of art such as abstract painting, conceptual art and performance showcase the complex and challenging world of modern art, which departed ...

FOR half a century art critics have undertaken to address not a sophisticated minority like the readers of literary magazines, but the mass of unbelievers to whom twentieth-century art is a mystery or ...

Abstract art often poses a challenge for many viewers due to its lack of connection to the physical world. Like other modernist art forms, it raises questions about how we understand and appreciate ...