The Shift to Post-Painterly Abstraction

Midcentury American painting did not drift gently from one mode to another. It snapped. The ...

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The Origins of Cave Paintings and Ancient Art

Long before cities or written law, human beings marked stone. That fact matters more than many ...

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Portraiture has never been a simple matter of recording a face. That idea misses the point. A ...

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Joan Miró did not treat painting as a window onto ordinary life. That would have bored him. He ...

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Light doesn’t just reveal art. It edits it. A painting in cool daylight can look ...

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Artemisia Gentileschi keeps showing up because modern culture keeps circling the same old ...

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Meaning in abstract art doesn’t arrive like a mail carrier with a labeled package. It arrives ...

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Impressionism didn’t arrive like a polite memo delivered to the Paris art world. It barged in, ...

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Color runs the show before subject matter gets a vote. A viewer can claim to care only about ...

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Money has always haunted art like a second shadow. Not the pleasant kind either. The itchy ...

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