Art reflects the heart, mind and soul of the artist and a lifetime of that exploration. In all art there resides an underlying abstract thought process and substructure. The majority of artists ...

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 ...

Abstract painting is one of the most freeing art forms, allowing you to explore colors, shapes, and textures without the pressure of realism. Beginners can start with simple tools like acrylics, ...

There is more than a little truth in the cliche that the average abstract painting could be reproduced by randomly spraying a canvas with paint, or by taking some hyperactive child's fingerpainting ...

Contemporary figurative painting has commanded much critical attention in recent years, but a spate of abstract shows signal a return to non-objectivity. Ragen Moss, Senior Lender (with Mezzanine ...

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 ...

One of the points brought out by the exhibition of “Abstract Painting in America” held at the Whitney Museum last spring was the fact that between 1915 and 1935 a surprising number of American ...

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 ...