Sean Scully, "Heart of Darkness" (1982), oil on canvas, 8 x 12 feet. Art Institute of Chicago, Gift of Society for Contemporary Art (image courtesy the Art Institute ...
This story first aired on August 4, 2016. Men receive much of the attention in abstract expressionism, a movement from the 1940s and 50s known for large, bold paintings, and for big names like Jackson ...
They may be two of the best-known names in early 20th century modern art, but Piet Mondrian and Hilma af Klint never actually met. Decades after their deaths in 1944, they are enjoying a posthumous ...
The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth will host the first major retrospective in more than 25 years of one of America’s best-known abstract expressionist painters, Robert Motherwell. The museum has more ...
As recently as the 1990s, the thinking among art experts was that abstraction in America grew from the work of a handful of New York artists in the 1940s and 1950s. The important pioneers of abstract ...
An exhibition at Gallery Hyundai sheds light on the flower paintings from last century of the Joseon Kingdom (1392-1910) as the origin of Korean modern art. Flowers and birds were the most popular ...
Great abstract painters like Pollock and Monet lose themselves in colour, sensation and memory to show that reality is subjective Abstract art is a kind of miracle. How can a painting that is just a ...
Scott Richards Contemporary Art is pleased to present SUMMER JAM, a vibrant collection of new abstract paintings by Michael Reafsnyder, marking the artist's first solo exhibition in San Francisco. The ...
Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. In a photograph taken in Ed Clark’s Louisiana studio in 1978, the artist stands with balletic poise in vest and ...
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