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American painter was the last surviving member of the Abstract Expressionist movement when he died at 101. Now, his ...
Piet Mondrian was an early 20th-century abstract artist and art theorist obsessed with simplicity and essence of form. Even ...
Scientists have studied trees depicted in various works of art and found they contain fractals, following relatively simple ...
An abstract painting by Dutch artist Piet Mondrian has been hanging upside down in various art galleries for the past 75 years, it has been discovered.
Even abstract paintings such as Piet Mondrian's 1912 cubist Gray Tree, which doesn’t visually show treelike colours, can be identified as trees if a realistic value for α is used, researchers say.
I was taught about Picasso and van Gogh, but I never saw myself in their work. Then I learned about Black artists during the Harlem Renaissance, and they inspired me to try abstract pictures.
The Cleveland Museum of Art's latest acquisitions included a major work by Beauford Delaney, an underrecognized Black artist now getting his due.
Before artists like Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning shot to fame, Janet Sobel was gaining ground as an important abstract painter — but largely disappeared from the art world.
For her 'Art Car,' artist Julie Mehretu "remixed" one of her most famous paintings to adorn a BMW M Hybrid V8 race car in frenetic form.
Scientists have studied trees depicted in various works of art and found they follow relatively simple mathematical rules also found in branching patterns in nature.