She was a promising young artist whose luminous and gestural abstractions earned the attention of the New York art world in the 1940s and 1950s. But Rosemarie Beck’s fall into the marginalia of art ...

Have you ever looked at an abstract painting and wondered what the artist was thinking? A splash of color on a canvas can ...

The world of abstract art is a mystery to me, as I imagine it is for most people. When you’re talking about colorful splotches on a canvas, what invisible committee decides that one person’s talent ...

Ann Purcell first wanted to paint after reading W. Somerset Maugham’s novel The Moon and Sixpence. The book, which draws inspiration from the life of Paul Gauguin, details how Vincent van Gogh learned ...

The pairing of paintings by Amanda Church and Jenny Hankwitz in Intersection at Steven Harvey Fine Art Projects was a stroke of genius. Opening a week after A Planar Garden, curated by Stephen ...

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 ...

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 solo exhibition Vitality and Love by artist Cynthia Zhang was held at the Sundial Art Space in Shanghai's Peace Hotel from June 15 to 26. [Photo provided to chinadaily.com.cn] The solo exhibition ...

Herriot said he produced all of the art currently in his studio between June and October. Credit: MONA MAHADEVAN PHOTO Herriot’s studio, filled with colorful, abstract art of various sizes. Herriot ...

A brilliant colorist, he hung his canvases from ceilings in great curves and loops, or pinned them, gathered, to walls, taking his medium into three dimensions. By Roberta Smith Sam Gilliam, a ...