Several artists have made a mark in the world of abstract art. Jackson Pollock is famous for his drip paintings that emphasize spontaneity and movement. Mark Rothko is known for his color field ...

The pioneers of abstraction—the Cubists, the Abstract Expressionists, the Minimalists—emerged from firm and identifiable aesthetic roots and developed their own philosophies. In the competitive ...

Kenneth Noland, the abstract artist whose sensitive approach to color helped define and establish the Washington Color Field school of painting, died Tuesday at the age of 85 at his home in Maine.

Explore the captivating world of abstract art, a genre that emphasizes visual elements like color, shape, and form over ...

“You can talk about light, scale, depth, beauty, color, shape, form, perspective,” the great mid-century abstract painter Helen Frankenthaler once said, “but it’s no formula of those things that make ...

Here’s an old question that I find is still alive for a lot of people: How do you look at an abstract painting? Are you meant to just immerse yourself in the wordless presence of its colors? Or does ...

The artist has recreated a colorful work, "Department of Water and Power," from her Los Angeles series of paintings, for the ...

FOR half a century art critics have undertaken to address not a sophisticated minority like the readers of literary magazines, but the mass of unbelievers to whom twentieth-century art is a mystery or ...

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Gongbi paintings often explore themes of nature, mythology, or daily life scenes. Common subjects include flowers, birds, ...