You either buy Brice Marden's sensibility or you don't. Mr. Marden (b. 1938) started out in the early 1970s with monochrome canvases whose waxy surfaces and just a little unfinished-ness at the ...

A fine line between art and kitsch. ByRoger Scruton. Follow Author. Share. Save. ... But nor were they ‘avant-garde’, since they were neither abstract squiggles, nor demolitions of reality.

In 1954, the American abstract painter Leon Polk Smith (1906-1996) saw some drawings of basketballs in a sports equipment catalog. “They were just line circles with a drawing of the seams on the ...

Professor of fine arts at Harvard, JAMES S. ACKERMAN did his undergraduate work at Yale and received his M.A. and Ph.D. from New York University. In the following article, Professor Ackerman ...

Eventually the art world caught up. In 2012, a large print of his "Memphis (Tricycle)" sold at auction for $578,000. Eggleston's life has been as unconventional as his art.

Lottie Consalvo says to make sense of abstract art is to kill it. Credit: Ben Adams We learn how Antonia Perricone Mrljak didn’t start painting until the age of 38, and that Nathan Feldman, like ...

By demystifying the emotional language of abstract art, this research has the potential to open up new opportunities for interdisciplinary collaborations and applications in the real word ...

Modern West Fine Art was envisioned as a contemporary art gallery that caters to the large base of Western-focused collectors in the region, while cultivating the state’s abundance of local talent.

If you wander through New York’s Museum of Modern Art, you’ll eventually come across Painting Number 2 by Franz Kline, a set of thick, unruly black lines on a white canvas. Elsewhere, you will ...