That’s enough to make art snobs flip. A famous abstract painting by the Dutch artist Piet Mondrian has been hanging upside down in museums for more than 75 years — after it was first displayed ...

Sam Gilliam was a famous American abstract painter known for his suspended canvases, soaked in acrylic paint. As a young ...

Picasso, who lived to 91, was famous for switching his artistic techniques ... but shifted in the 1920s towards surrealism and abstract art. Critics have praised his work as prolific, yet they ...

except his lampooned the art establishment that promoted abstract painting. One of them is based on a famous Rembrandt painting, The Anatomy Lesson of Dr Nicolaes Tulp. Except the cadaver on the ...

In the 1950s, her works were exhibited, and collected by, the Whitney Museum of American Art. Robert Motherwell, a titan of Abstract Expressionism, took her on as a protege. She even earned the ...

This is one of Dutch artist Piet Mondrian’s famous abstract pieces ... published in a 1944 issue of Town & Country shows the painting still on its easel, rotated 180 degrees from the way ...

Rockefeller University in New York City plans to sell two paintings by the abstract expressionist Joan Mitchell to help fund biomedical research, The New York Times reported. The paintings, “Untitled” ...