Abstract art has a bad reputation. For many people, it’s just shapes and lines, sometimes also some smears of paint thrown in seemingly randomly. Stand in front of it long enough and the same awkward ...

Review: Hilma af Klint, The Secret Paintings. Art Gallery of New South Wales. In 1986, those art historians who see art as some form of linear progression “improving” with time received a rude shock.

Sean Scully, "Heart of Darkness" (1982), oil on canvas, 8 x 12 feet. Art Institute of Chicago, Gift of Society for Contemporary Art (image courtesy the Art Institute ...

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 ...

Have you ever looked at an abstract painting and wondered what the artist was thinking? A splash of color on a canvas can ...

The primary authors of this post are Dirk B. Walther (University of Toronto) and Claudia Damiano (KU Leuven) Have you ever stood before an abstract painting, feeling a surge of emotion but struggling ...

Mie Yim‘s paintings are indisputably strange. Some observers would add, “in a good way.” Others might not be so sure. The candy colors and soft-focus biomorphic forms are playfully appealing, like ...