In the traditional sense, abstract painting requires a remarkable imagination. For both the painter and the observer. While inspiration may come from the actual, the end product rests more in the ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — When abstract expressionism was all the rage in American art in the mid-20th century, many artists thought the art of painting portraits was dead. Artist Chuck Close went so far as ...

Andres was hardly a secret at the time. By my count, he had no fewer than 147 paintings accepted in the Cleveland Museum of Art’s annual May Show between 1947 and 1984, an average of nearly four a ...

An upcoming solo show at The Arts League of Lowell features the most recent work of Ann Brady, highlighting her abstract and mixed water media paintings. The show is June 4-29 in the John Greenwald ...

Britain’s pre-eminent abstract painter looks anew at her career, from her black-and-white 1960s Op Art to her contemporary explorations with color. By Karen Rosenberg “I’m always interested in the ...

Michelle Loewer is a local artist from Hampstead and she paints abstract artwork. Loewer has been interested in many forms of art since she was a child. Her first creative craft was macramé and by the ...

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 ...

A secular chapel might seem an impossible contradiction in terms — an unsustainable union of worldliness and divinity. The mystery of mortality doesn’t merge easily with the empirical here-and-now.

What’s a young female painter doing moving in the same circles as older male artists who dominate the Chinese contemporary art scene? Holding her own in China’s artistic universe, where the balance of ...