The gist of Dadaism was the "gratuitous act," and the most gratuitous Dadaist act of all was Marcel Duchamp's invention of the readymade. One can regard them as experiments in art, or mock works of ...

Christie’s vice chairman of 20th- and 21st-century art said in a news release. “It is an icon—of Ruscha’s art, of paradox, of ...

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, ...

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 ...

Cristian Albu, deputy chairman and head of 20th/21st century art at Christie's Asia Pacific, said the price was the "record of a Van Gogh in Asia". The auction house was "cautious" with its lineup ...

Professor Yi, who is also a Global Council Member at the Asia Society, spoke about how “True View” painting refers to landscape painting techniques that started in the 18th century to specifically ...