Isolated in the rural American Southwest and navigating the harsh realities of poverty in the 1930s, a small group of artists made sublime abstract art that sought to intuitively connect viewers to a ...

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 ...

Detail of “Visualising Painter’s” Lives by Accurat (all images courtesy Accurat) At about the same time Abstract Expressionist painter Jackson Pollock was losing himself to depression, Matisse’s ...

Shirley Jaffe is one of the best abstract painters working, but how many people know it? In Paris, the city Shirley Jaffe is one of the best abstract painters working, but how many people know it? In ...

A powerful and intimate portrait, Joan Mitchell: Portrait of an Abstract Painter captures Mitchell's independent spirit and testifies eloquently to Mitchell's art. Joan Mitchell was born in Chicago in ...

ROCKLAND, Maine — In a subtly evocative installation photograph of John Walker: From Seal Point, currently on view at the Center for Maine Contemporary Art, the camera catches the light from the ...

The layman who know?s nothing about art but suspects that abstract painters are off their rockers won support last week from a Paris physician who has treated about 70 abstractionists in the last ten ...