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 ...
Rita Blitt, “Seeking Truth” (1989), ink on paper (Mulvane Art Museum, Rita Blitt Legacy Collection, 2016.0432) Women of Abstract Expressionism, an exhibition of paintings and drawings curated from the ...
The German expressionist collection of the New Walk Museum & Art Gallery in Leicester, England, has been redisplayed in a new space, The Art Newspaper reports. The city’s mayor is due to preside over ...
Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Chadd Scott covers the intersection of art and travel. Abstract Expressionism holds the distinction of being the first original ...
In the late 1960s and early 1970s, Surrealism and Expressionism were dead in the water as viable strategies for making worthwhile new art. The commercial language of Pop, the strict geometries of ...
On Ninth Street Women: Five Painters and the Movement that Changed Modern Art, by Mary Gabriel. Jackson Pollock was dead. Drunk, as usual, he’d overturned his Oldsmobile in the summer of 1956, ...
When German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche declared in 1882 that “Gott ist tot” — God is dead — he could not have known that he was codifying a social and cultural transformation that a generation ...
The fact is, that both finish and impetuosity, specific minuteness and large abstraction, may be signs of passion, or of its reverse; may result from affection or indifference, intellect or dulness . ...