Abstract art has a bad reputation. For many people, it’s just shapes and lines, sometimes also some smears of paint thrown in ...

Kenneth Noland, the abstract artist whose sensitive approach to color helped define and establish the Washington Color Field school of painting, died Tuesday at the age of 85 at his home in Maine.

Scientists have identified the origins of the blue color in one of Jackson Pollock's paintings with a little help from chemistry, confirming for the first time that the abstract expressionist used a ...

On the legacy of post-painterly abstraction, occasioned by the exhibition and catalogue for “Color as Field: American Painting 1950–1975.” In 1964, Clement Greenberg was invited by the Los Angeles ...

Maya Gerenshteyn and Lucia DeChino have had different creative journeys, but both are linked through their bold, expressive ...

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 ...

“You can talk about light, scale, depth, beauty, color, shape, form, perspective,” the great mid-century abstract painter Helen Frankenthaler once said, “but it’s no formula of those things that make ...

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 ...