Brush-strokes are a major feature of abstract art. Unlike figurative paintings, where there is an attempt to capture an object from the natural world, they are a means within themselves.

Ivan Kenneth Eyre was a Canadian artist known for his prairie landscapes and compositionally abstract, figurative paintings using oil and acrylic. "Knowing that there was somebody seriously committed ...

Amy Sillman is an influential contemporary American painter whose practice conflates the abstract and the figurative into large-scale, gestural oil paintings. Born in 1955 in Detroit, MI, Sillman ...

Tanya Ling's lines are running wild. The long, slim, twisting lines that once depicted Louis Vuitton, Chanel and Stefano Pilati-clad ladies - and even shaped themselves into a Fendi Peekaboo bag ...