Abstract painting is nearing its centenary. Although what exactly abstraction is, who first achieved it, and when and where, are questions open to interpretation, the best art-historical thinking ...

When I saw the title of the show, I thought it was a play on the phenomenal Inventing Abstraction, 1910-1925, which ran from December 23, 2012, through April 15, 2013, at the Museum of Modern Art.

For much of human history, people made art by trying to represent the world as it appeared around them. Until about 100 years ago, when a bunch of artists stopped trying to do that. It was ...

Mobile Museum of Art is showing 'Today's Visual Language: Southern Abstraction, A Fresh Look,' artwork by 37 artists with personal or professional connections to the Southeast.

Art Pure Painting: The birth of abstraction by Leo J. O’Donovan, S.J. March 5, 2013 ...

To Kinigstein, abstract painting took no talent, no skill, no ability to observe the world. There was also a moral component — he refused to change the way he painted simply because it wasn't ...

In the 1960s, abstract painting was a controversial style for Black artists, overshadowed by social realist works. Now, it’s claimed its place as a vital form of expression.

Take “ Action/Abstraction Redefined: Modern Native Art, 1940s to 1970s,” for example, which opened at the Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts on Friday.

IT is not easy to find meaning amid the drips and daubs, splashes and swirls of contemporary abstract painting. But John I. H. Baur, curator of Manhattan's Whitney Museum of American Art, ...

Modern West Fine Art was envisioned as a contemporary art gallery that caters to the large base of Western-focused collectors in the region, while cultivating the state’s abundance of local talent.