Styles, movements, and general art topics are listed alphabetically. Where there are multiple articles for one topic the most pertinent articles will be near the top.
Abstract Art
- 10 Abstract Expressionists, and the signature styles that killed them*
- Frank Stella: Foyer Artist
- Is this child art prodigy the real deal, and is she really a threat to the canon of Abstract Expressionist painters?
- Dismantling the Dominant Art Narrative
- Buying Barnett Newman’s Art on Faith
- Robert Ryman – Whiting Out Art for Posterity
- Sensational Non-Representational Art
AI: Artificial Intelligence Art
Appropriation
- “Good artists copy, great artists steal.” Not so fast.
- Deconstructing Jeff Koons’ paintings, and why they are an attempt at original art (as opposed to his usual appropriations)
- The Thin Gold Line Between Radical Art Appropriation and Hackneyed Plagiarism.
- Richard Prince’s copy of someone else’s instagram sells for $90,000: the good news, and the bad news.
- The argument against artist’s assistants. The doer vs the orderer.
- Appropriation Is Dead. Richard Prince’s Instagram “Paintings”.
- What is Real in Art?
- Kanye West’s Sculpture Killed Conceptual Art
- Koons, Appropriation, and Plagiarism (Again)!
- In Defense of Artist, Glenn Brown
- The trial of Glenn Brown as a plagiarist/copyist continues.
Conceptual Art [Also see “Postmodernism”]
- Why People Hate Contemporary/Conceptual Art (Comprehensive article)
- Why People Hate Conceptual Art: Part 1
- The Debate Over Skill In Visual Art And Conceptual Art [Why People Hate Conceptual Art, Part 2]
- How art history got Jackson Pollock all wrong, and why it matters [Why People Hate Conceptual Art: Part 3].
- The Big Bang of Conceptual Art [Why People Hate Conceptual Art: Part 4]
- Dismantling the Dominant Art Narrative
- It’s time to finally retire “radical”
- The argument against artist’s assistants. The doer vs the orderer.
- “Good artists copy, great artists steal.” Not so fast.
- What is Real in Art?
- Art Criticism Book Review: Tom Wolfe, “The Painted Word”
- No Hands Art and De-Skilled Art!
- Believing is Seeing?
- Ai Weiwei, Refugee Vests, and the Inarticulateness of Conceptual Art
- Richard Prince’s copy of someone else’s instagram sells for $90,000: the good news, and the bad news.
- The Great Sacrifice of Conceptual Art (Satire)
- 70ft Car-Juggling Robot Unintentionally Stomps on Priceless Postmodern Art!
- Miley Cyrus: Conceptual Artist
Digital Art
- A Defense of Digital Painting (and digital art in general)
- Gerhardt Richter’s Crappy Digital Stripe Paintings
Evolutionary Art
Expressionism
- 10 Abstract Expressionists, and the signature styles that killed them*
- Jonathan Meese: Master or Nutter?
- Eerie Alfred Kubin: Forgotten Pioneer of Symbolism, Expressionism, and Surrealism
- Sophie Derrick: Exhilarating Expressionist Impasto Paintings
- Tyler Scully’s Expressionist Trump Paintings
Figurative art:
- In Defense of Artist, Francis Bacon (Very comprehensive article with tons of pics)
- David Park: A return to figuration decades ahead of schedule.
- The Cruciforms of Zdzisław Beksiński
- Kanye West’s Sculpture Killed Conceptual Art (Section on Vincent Desiderio)
- Krzysztof Krawiec
- Andrew Newton stood on the shoulders of the giants of 20th century figurative painting, and leapt
- Artists I like: Eric Joyner
- The Obama Portraits and Wiley’s Beheaded White Woman Paintings
Photo Realism
- Bechtle’s Realist Paintings of Cars Hit Home
- The Debate Over Skill In Visual Art And Conceptual Art
- Andrew Newton stood on the shoulders of the giants of 20th century figurative painting, and leapt
Politics & art
- Art is Not Inherently Political!
- The Obama Portraits and Wiley’s Beheaded White Woman Paintings
- Morality, Politics, Vomit, and Art.
- Get Politics the F out of Art!
- Chucking out Chuck Close for Allegedly Being Naughty
- The Waterhouse Water Nymphs Debate: Is Censorship Art?
- Rebuttal to Sonya Boyce’s Defense of Removing Waterhouse’s Painting
- Radical Activists Demand The End of an Artist’s Career
- Censoring and Burning Art in the Name of Progressive Morality
- In Defense of Cindy Sherman.
- Should This Painting be Destroyed?
- Anti-Trump Art A bit too Obvious and Bandwagon
- Tyler Scully’s Expressionist Trump Paintings
- What is Real in Art?
Post-Impressionism
- Vincent’s dead but he never gets old, and Jeff Koons is already a skeleton.
- The Debate Over Skill In Visual Art And Conceptual Art (Big section on Van Gogh here)
- The Red Vineyard, and why Van Gogh only sold one painting in his lifetime.
- Evolutionary Vs. Revolutionary and Traditional Art (Van Gogh is an example of “Evolutionary Art”.
- “Van Gogh Self-Portrait With Cut Ear”: Background and details. (Has a section on my appreciation of Van Gogh)
- Is The New Most Expensive Painting Ever Sold Horribly Flawed?! (About the unintentional anatomical anomalies in Gauguin’s art)
Postmodernism [Also see “Conceptual Art”]
- How Postmodernism Has Worked Against Us.
- How art history got Jackson Pollock all wrong, and why it matters.
- Rant: Modernism’s shortcomings, debate, being censored, insulted, blocked and banned.
- Inextinguishable Originality: Refuting Rosalind Krauss.
- 70ft Car-Juggling Robot Unintentionally Stomps on Priceless Postmodern Art!
Psychedelic Art (Also see “Visionary Art”)
- The “Spiritual” in Art for the Intellectually Rigorous
- Google Deep Dream Getting Too Good
- Krzysztof Krawiec
- Interview with dark visionary artist, Bryan Kent Ward
- Death and Regeneration: The Dark Vision of Bryan Kent Ward
Purpose of Art
Spiritual Art
- The “Spiritual” in Art for the Intellectually Rigorous
- Interview with dark visionary artist, Bryan Kent Ward
- Death and Regeneration: The Dark Vision of Bryan Kent Ward
- What is Real in Art?
Stuckism
Surrealism
- The Insectoid Figurative Gems of Roberto Matta
- Eerie Alfred Kubin: Forgotten Pioneer of Symbolism, Expressionism, and Surrealism
- The Giant Hovering Orb Paintings of Masakatsu Sashie
- Interview with Painter, Dean Reynolds
Symbolism
Visionary Art
Art & Crit by Eric Wayne 