Lynn Gamwell’s thesis is based on the unsupportable premise that abstract painting -- the complete absence of representational imagery -- is art. The argument on that matter (which Michelle Kamhi and ...

The standard story of 1960s arts is one of Abstract Expressionism leading into Pop Art and minimalism. A Whitney show ...

Leading arts and media institution of the last 40 years, BRIC, will present Latinx Abstract, beginning January 21st and running until May 2, 2021. The groundbreaking exhibition acknowledges the ...

The primary authors of this post are Dirk B. Walther (University of Toronto) and Claudia Damiano (KU Leuven) Have you ever stood before an abstract painting, feeling a surge of emotion but struggling ...

One of the interesting things about Hilma af Klint (1862–1944) is that neither she nor her work can be written into the early history of abstract art. While her work predates that of the time-honored ...

LIKE all good jokes tHe drawing from Punch above on the page has its serious and even tragic side. For it would miss its point if we took it to be a crack at the expense of Dolan the artist or his ...

Nothing is more remarkable about the art of the last quarter-century than the diminished role played by abstraction in defining the course of contemporary artistic thought. Where abstraction had not ...

History of Abstract Painting -- Abstract art and nature -- Persistence and vitality of abstract art -- Kandinsky and Mondrian -- Robert and Sonia Delaunay -- Morgan Russell and Macdonald-Wright -- ...

PORT TOWNSEND — If you want to feel free, this woman has an art style for you. “The Joy of Abstract Art,” a new class at the nonprofit Northwind Art School at Fort Worden, has immigrant painter Xin ...

In light of the recent re-appraisal of Hilma af Klint's Spiritualist paintings in the history of Abstract Art, this exhibition explores the prevalence of spirituality in post-war abstraction. The ...