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 ...

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For many years, the large and inspiring piece of art, “Fog, Ocean and Wind,” greeted guests entering the Davis home of an early pioneer in oncology. Now, the painting, created in 1956 by renowned ...

Artnet’s second auction dedicated to Abstract Expressionism and Color Field painting opened today. Curated by Dakota Sica, an avid collector and partner at New York’s Leslie Feely Gallery, the sale ...

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Abstract art can make you look at the world in a whole new way. Associated with artists like Paul Cezanne, Man Ray and Picasso, this style is based around implication — creating images with shapes, ...

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 ...

Researchers studying people's brain activity when looking at abstract art have revealed why we interpret blobs of paint on canvas so differently. When you look at an abstract painting, study it in a ...