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 ...

Diane Burko, "Unprecedented" (2021), mixed media, 8 x 15 feet (all images courtesy the artist) WASHINGTON, DC — At the heart of Diane Burko’s retrospective exhibition at the American University Museum ...

The pioneers of abstraction—the Cubists, the Abstract Expressionists, the Minimalists—emerged from firm and identifiable aesthetic roots and developed their own philosophies. In the competitive ...

“You can talk about light, scale, depth, beauty, color, shape, form, perspective,” the great mid-century abstract painter Helen Frankenthaler once said, “but it’s no formula of those things that make ...

Some artists — young and old alike — just don’t like realistic drawing. The task of portraying something exactly as it appears in real life can be daunting, and many find the process frustrating. For ...

This video shows a couple enjoying a spin art session where paint is transformed into a vibrant abstract design. The process highlights creativity, movement, and color blending as a unique artwork ...

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 ...

SALISBURY — An artist who made a name for himself by turning the outdoors into his canvas is bringing his artwork inside. Known commonly as Abstract Dissent, Shane Pierce has earned a reputation in ...

Presented with a plain white wall, it can feel a little daunting to paint on that first splash of colour. But once you get past that anxiety, you can create something seriously magical – especially if ...