This month, throughout the spring, and continuing all year at museums across America, great women abstract artists of today, and their predecessors, receive a hard earned spotlight. Women have never ...

Pablo Picasso's perspective on art suggests that all artistic creations start with tangible inspirations and ideas. He ...

On the 10th anniversary of its opening, the National Museum of African American History and Culture highlights artists who didn't shirk from a critique of power.

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. The records of the American Abstract Artists measure 1.6 linear feet and date from 1936 through 1983. The records document the founding of the ...

In a new film for BBC Four, Abstract Artists in Their Own Words unlocks the BBC archives to tell the story of abstract art in Britain. The film is told through the words of those who broke free from ...

Installation view, Abstract Expressionism: Looking East from the Far West, Honolulu Museum of Art HONOLULU, HI — The vast region traditionally referred to in the West as “the East,” which includes ...

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 ...

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 ...

Abstract art is one of the most fluid art constructs among contemporary art. It can either be a splash of colours, it can have hidden geometry within the canvas, it can start forming figures which you ...