This video explores abstract painting as an artistic style that focuses on shapes, colors, textures, and composition rather than realistic representation. Abstract art allows artists to communicate ...

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 ...

Detail of a painting by Ha Chong-Hyun, from the “Conjunction” series, hanging in his studio. In recent years, the Dansaekhwa movement in Korea has been having a moment, to say the least. The abstract ...

One of the points brought out by the exhibition of “Abstract Painting in America” held at the Whitney Museum last spring was the fact that between 1915 and 1935 a surprising number of American ...

Abstract art has its roots in early human civilisation. Cultures across the globe have used non-figurative, but highly symbolic, decoration for centuries. While abstract art became the dominant art ...

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 ...

Katie Ruiz was finding it, her appreciation for abstract art. Trained as a figurative artist and working as a textile-based artist who’s also a maximalist, the more minimalist abstract she found when ...