Ludovic Nkoth stars in Flag Art Foundation's "Spotlight" series with a painting that balances visual simplicity and conceptual complexity.

Left: Janice Nowinski, “Pink Bathing Suit III” (2016), 0il on canvas, 14 x 11 in; right: Janice Nowinski, “Man drinking in the woods” (2016), oil on canvas, 14 x 11 in (all images courtesy Kent Fine ...

Paul Resika is an American artist born in 1928 in New York City, United States. He studied at the Parsons School of Design in New York and was influenced by Hans Hofmann. Resika has been associated ...

In the 1950s, Jonah Kinigstein was on the verge of making it big in New York's art world. He won a Fulbright to Rome. His paintings got into the Whitney Museum's annual show of contemporary art (the ...

Making sense of an overarching theme like “figuration” would seem a daunting task. Doesn’t the word apply to any artwork that represents anything in the external world? But thanks to Nicelle Beauchene ...

The imagery shifts our understanding of when and where humans started depicting imaginary figures. A researcher studying what was previously believed to be the world's oldest figurative art in a ...

The oldest figurative painting in the world has been discovered in the Indonesian province of South Sulawesi by scientists from Australia and Indonesia The cave paintings on Karampuang Hill on the ...

With dealers and curators jumping on the figurative bandwagon, we have to look more closely at whether a new cohort of painters succeeds at what they’re attempting. Doron Langberg’s Daniel Reading, ...

Philip Pearlstein is an American painter widely regarded as one the greatest figurative artists of the last century. Pearlstein’s work is often composed of multiple nude models in complex interiors, ...