"Number 7A, 1948" is considered one of history's "first truly abstract paintings," according to Christie's New York ...

Willem de Kooning blurred the boundaries of drawing and painting, as a show at the Art Institute of Chicago makes clear.

Mathematicians have calculated a “golden rule” for abstract art that famous artists tend to follow when they compose their ...

In the 1950s, Jonah Kinigstein was on the verge of making it big in New York's art world. He won a Fulbright to Rome. His paintings got into the Whitney Museum's annual show of contemporary art (the ...

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The Abstract Expressionist's Number 7A, 1948 painting is now his most expensive artwork ever sold at auction.

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

A mathematical method borrowed from topology can reveal structural properties of visual art that correspond to how people ...

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 ...

Diane Burko, "Unprecedented" (2021), mixed media, 8 x 15 feet (all images courtesy the artist) WASHINGTON, DC — At the heart of Diane Burko’s retrospective exhibition at the American University Museum ...

Sean Scully, "Heart of Darkness" (1982), oil on canvas, 8 x 12 feet. Art Institute of Chicago, Gift of Society for Contemporary Art (image courtesy the Art Institute ...

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 ...