"Avery, Gottlieb & Rothko: By the Sea" explores the trio's friendship and artistic evolution.

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. The records of the American Abstract Artists measure 1.6 linear feet and date from 1936 through 1983. The records document the founding of the ...

This month, throughout the spring, and continuing all year at museums across America, great women abstract artists of today, and their predecessors, receive a hard earned spotlight. Women have never ...

In a new film for BBC Four, Abstract Artists in Their Own Words unlocks the BBC archives to tell the story of abstract art in Britain. The film is told through the words of those who broke free from ...

The mind processes abstract art and figurative art very differently, and the experience of viewing one or the other can change the way you think, a new study shows. Our minds process events and ...

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 ...

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 ...

You could swear you’ve seen her before, the woman in the silky green slip dress painted in profile. Perhaps you spied her in the wings at a modern dance troupe or waiting for a table at a local ...

Abstract art is one of the most fluid art constructs among contemporary art. It can either be a splash of colours, it can have hidden geometry within the canvas, it can start forming figures which you ...