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 ...

Although the 20th century has been called the century of abstract art, the figurative tradition has remained with us, and some of the period’s greatest artists, including Matisse and Picasso ...

Pablo Picasso is one of the most influential painters and sculptors of the 20th century ... rising costs for many of his paintings. The most reverenced modernist images in art history are from ...

Nicolas de Staël confounded critics with his art. The 20th-century French master managed to straddle the border between the abstract and the figurative, writes Lara Marlowe. Nicolas de Staël was ...

Modern art was born from a desire to destroy kitsch, but time and again it is drawn back to its lure, says Roger Scruton. In the early years of the 20th Century ... old ways of figurative painting ...

Cultures across the globe have used non-figurative, but highly symbolic, decoration for centuries. While abstract art became the dominant art form of the 20th century, it started to evolve in the ...