Doron Langberg’s Daniel Reading, 2019. (Courtesy of Yossi Milo Gallery) It’s not so easy to make a fresh-looking abstract painting these days. More than a century after the pioneering work of ...

Scientists have identified the oldest figurative art in the world, and it can be found in a cave in the Borneo jungle. Created more than 40,000 years ago, the faint image depicts wild cattle, painted ...

Archaeologists exploring caves in Indonesia have discovered a wall painting that could be the oldest figurative painting ever found. It depicts ... a cow. Despite the humble subject matter, 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 ...

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 ...

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 known figurative cave art painting in the world may be a 40,000-year-old rendering of a species of wild cattle found in a Borneo cave by a group of Griffith University researchers. It is ...

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A pig painted on the wall of an Indonesian cave is the world’s oldest figurative art—that is, it’s the oldest known drawing of something, rather than an abstract design or a stencil. 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, ...