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 ...
The primary authors of this post are Dirk B. Walther (University of Toronto) and Claudia Damiano (KU Leuven) Have you ever stood before an abstract painting, feeling a surge of emotion but struggling ...
Canvases stand on easels outside a quiet building in Nairobi, catching the afternoon light.On one canvas, bold white lines slice the surface into triangles and narrow strips, and inside each shape a ...
Smudging. Tracing. Blotting. Collaging. Erasing. Swishing. Showing himself to be one of the great draftsmen of the 20th century, famed abstract expressionist Willem de Kooning employed all these ...
In an exception to the usual paintings-heavy blockbuster exhibitions, the Art Institute of Chicago is presenting the masterful drawings of Willem de Kooning. By Ted Loos Summer is the time for ...