Lynn Gamwell’s thesis is based on the unsupportable premise that abstract painting -- the complete absence of representational imagery -- is art. The argument on that matter (which Michelle Kamhi and ...

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 ...

Who invented modern art? Or, more specifically, abstract art? We all know the answer. It was the free-thinking American and European painters of the mid-20th century, heroes like Mark Rothko, Jackson ...

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Outside avant-garde artistic circles, the creation of The Abstract Group, in Pittsburgh, in late 1944, was greeted with something less than fanfare. In a contemporaneous installment of his column ...

The story Beyond the Visible gets to tell is extraordinary — the mysterious, unacknowledged life of pioneering Swedish artist Hilma af Klint, whose work calls into question the generally accepted ...

Principal Fellow (Hon), Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne. Editor in Chief, Design and Art of Australia Online, The University of Melbourne In 1986, those art historians who see ...

The Palm Springs Art Museum is renowned for its focus on all things related to California mid-century modernism. A new enlightening exhibition chronicles the birth of a specific brand of abstract art ...

Trailblazing women have written the history of Austin art. It is true that the postwar generation of artists and teachers who dominated the new fine arts program at the University of Texas were, for ...

As our celebration of Bllack History Month continues we're taking the time to appreciate one of the many contributors of abstract art-As Greg Wiley Edwards, an arts activist tells 23ABC’s Kristin ...

PORT TOWNSEND — If you want to feel free, this woman has an art style for you. “The Joy of Abstract Art,” a new class at the nonprofit Northwind Art School at Fort Worden, has immigrant painter Xin ...

Introduction to the histories of art and the practice of art history. You will encounter a range of arts (including painting, sculpture, architecture, photography, prints) and artistic practices from ...