“Composing Color: Paintings by Alma Thomas” draws on the Smithsonian American Art Museum’s extensive holdings of Alma Thomas’ art to offer an intimate view of her evolving practice during her most ...

No matter how much art changes, color stays the same. There are only three primary colors — blue, yellow, and red. They combine to make the secondary colors — green, orange, and purple — which combine ...

It's hard to imagine today, but colour has been the subject of significant controversy for much of the history of Western art. In fact it's only relatively recently that it pushed past the stigma to ...

His abstract art has been criticised and praised in equal measure for its haphazard use of paint. But new research has found Jackson Pollock's drip painting may have more in common with the stylised ...

Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter How do you draw the crowds to an old, landlocked house deep in the Norfolk countryside? Perhaps call on Damien Hirst. The seventh ...