A recent gallery exhibition on abstract art and self-taught artists proposes a new story for the rise of abstraction. In the ...

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 ...

Abstract painting is one of the most freeing art forms, allowing you to explore colors, shapes, and textures without the pressure of realism. Beginners can start with simple tools like acrylics, ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

František Kupka “Plans by Color (Woman in Triangles)” (1911) oil on canvas, 109 x 99,5 cm, collection Centre Pompidou, Musée national d’art moderne achat ...

Abstract art often poses a challenge for many viewers due to its lack of connection to the physical world. Like other modernist art forms, it raises questions about how we understand and appreciate ...

BERKELEY, Calif. -- For Berkeley artist Raymond L. Haywood, painting is his foundation. "I just love painting. I would paint on the ground. I would paint in the mud. I just like making marks. And I ...