While abstract art became the dominant art form of the 20th century, it started to evolve in the 19th Century. This timeline will lead you through some of the key works, with images from the BBC ...

U.S. painting of the immediate postwar era became dominated by what has come to be known as Abstract Expressionism. In 1955 the critic Clement Greenberg published American-Type Painting, championing ...

Lucian Freud was one of the major figurative painters of the 20th century. Working in an uncompromisingly confrontational style, his portraits and nudes were rendered with a thickly laden brush. Often ...

a relatively new discipline when he began painting abstract art in the early 20th Century. This had a significant impact on the art he produced. Kandinsky, widely credited as the first abstract ...

American artist Charles R. Knight produced some of the most iconic paintings of prehistoric life to date. Several major natural history museums in the US have featured Knight’s murals: detailed, ...

Alberto Burri was an Italian artist and one of the most prominent abstract painters of the 20th century. Associated with the Arte ... Camp Howze in Texas as a prisoner of war, where he began painting ...

In February 2013, the Moderna Museet, Stockholm’s national museum of modern art, opened a blockbuster show, “Hilma af Klint: ...

Together, the images show how Hardrick, who died at age 77 in 1968, helped pioneer the way the world saw Black cultural life in the early to mid-20th-century. "Hardrick is painting members of the ...

Edo period Japanese painting, and 20th-century abstract art. They found that the values of α in these artworks range from 1.5 to 2.8, similar to the range of this value in natural trees.