The first names that come to mind in Abstract Expressionism—Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning, and the like—may all be men, but women artists also played a crucial role in the internationally-renown ...

"Expressionist" is one of those handy terms that we critics use rather promiscuously. Historically, it was coined by a French painter in 1901 to suggest an alternative to impressionism. Later it was ...

George Morrison (Grand Portage Chippewa), "The Red Sky" (1955), oil on canvas; Tweed Museum of Art, University of Minnesota Duluth (© George Morrison Estate, unless otherwise noted) The landmark ...

Off-Ramp commentator Marc Haefele reviews "Expressionism in Germany and France: From Van Gogh to Kandinsky," at LACMA's Resnick Pavilion through mid-September. The Los Angeles County Museum of Art has ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. The abstract expressionists did not hurt for hubris. "It is one of the ...

When German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche declared in 1882 that “Gott ist tot” — God is dead — he could not have known that he was codifying a social and cultural transformation that a generation ...

London, Basel or Charlotte, NC: Several museums are featuring cult artists such as Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko and de Kooning. Amidst post-war anxiety, their monumental works turned painting into a ...

“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 ...

Tytus Czyżewski, Akt z kotem (Nude with a Cat), 1920, oil on canvas, 76 x 96 cm, from the collection of the National Museum in Warsaw, photo: NMW Works by young artists shown at the above mentioned ...