Katie Ruiz was finding it, her appreciation for abstract art. Trained as a figurative artist and working as a textile-based ...

The first names that come to mind in Abstract Expressionism—Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning, and the like—may all be men, but women artists also played a crucial role in the internationally-renown ...

DENVER — The story goes like this. It is 1950. Virginia-born painter Judith Godwin learns that dancer and choreographer Martha Graham will be in the region and all Godwin can think about is her desire ...

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 ...

In the 1950s, Jonah Kinigstein was on the verge of making it big in New York's art world. He won a Fulbright to Rome. His paintings got into the Whitney Museum's annual show of contemporary art (the ...

It is hard to tell if abstract painting actually got worse [after the 1960s], if it merely stagnated, or if it simply looked bad in comparison to the hopes its own accomplishments had raised. —Frank ...

The world of abstract art is a mystery to me, as I imagine it is for most people. When you’re talking about colorful splotches on a canvas, what invisible committee decides that one person’s talent ...

Discover how to create stunning textured abstract wall art using mixed media techniques in this step-by-step art tutorial.

With the return of sunlit evenings, warmer days and sprouting gardens, now is the perfect time for budding artists to celebrate the signs of spring through art. The new season brings about ...

From shoes to New Yorker covers, the power of a strong visual aesthetic is at the center of this beautiful documentary series. Despite its title, “Abstract” is relatively easy to grasp. The upcoming ...