Life took John Grillo from New England to Japan to California to New York and then back to New England as the abstract expressionist studied, taught, and created paintings, sculptures, and collages ...

Wendy Sussman, 51, a painter of massive figurative canvasses and a UC Berkeley art professor. The Brooklyn-born Sussman earned a master of fine arts degree from Brooklyn College and taught at the ...

Abstract art often gets an undeserved bad rap. Many people famously dismissed Jackson Pollock‘s signature drip paintings in the 1950s, for instance, as being something that a trained chimpanzee could ...

Barbara Beamer is a retired art teacher who hopes her students — and everyone in general — continue to be inspired. “Keep exposing yourself to art and ideas,” she’d tell her students. Beamer first ...

Take inspiration from art therapy activities and create powerful art lessons that promote wellbeing, with these ideas from Alice ...

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 ...

The exhibition shows how the principles of Abstract Expressionism were applied to the medium of collage. Abstract Expressionist painter Helen Frankenthaler at work on a large canvas in 1969. Photo: ...

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 ...