The artist Mary Heilmann, whose disarming abstract paintings melded high modernism and emotion, has died at 86.

Jose David Morales-Ortiz began painting at age 60 to calm his mind and explore creatively. Now, his front yard has become his ...

The mind processes abstract art and figurative art very differently, and the experience of viewing one or the other can change the way you think, a new study shows. Our minds process events and ...

Adeola Davies-Aiyeloja took a winding and intuitive path to realizing her vision as an artist—from early enjoyment to a self-taught discipline and years as an educator, to a practice built on ...

A woman gazes at two of Hilma af Klint’s abstract works in the Guggenheim’s Hilma af Klint: Paintings for the Future (all images by author) Her story sounds almost too good to be true. Historians now ...

It is hard to tell if abstract painting actually got worse [after the 1960s], if it merely stagnated, or if it simply looked bad in comparison to the hopes its own accomplishments had raised. —Frank ...

It is no secret that racism exists in all areas of the art world. In its museums, history, schools, education, and among its artists. The world of art is a primarily white space that, in most cases, ...

Abstract art often gets an undeserved bad rap. Many people famously dismissed Jackson Pollock‘s signature drip paintings in the 1950s, for instance, as being something that a trained chimpanzee could ...

Jose David Morales-Ortiz says people see the shapes on his paintings differently; some people may see a stream, a fish, or a ...

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 ...