Mathematicians have calculated a “golden rule” for abstract art that famous artists tend to follow when they compose their ...

If asked to identify an abstract painting, most people will readily point to one of Picasso”s works or Salvador Dali”s “Persistence of Time.” Although cubism and surrealism are the unmistakable norm ...

Most people have heard of Jackson Pollock. But few are familiar with Janet Sobel, the Ukrainian-born American painter who first pioneered Pollock’s iconic drip-painting technique. The Abstract ...

A mathematical method borrowed from topology can reveal structural properties of visual art that correspond to how people ...

What happens when the number of talented artists exceeds the amount of gallery space to exhibit them? You take down your own art collection to free up walls for others, open up your home and invite ...

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 ...

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 ...

Abstract art has a bad reputation. For many people, it’s just shapes and lines, sometimes also some smears of paint thrown in ...

She was a promising young artist whose luminous and gestural abstractions earned the attention of the New York art world in the 1940s and 1950s. But Rosemarie Beck’s fall into the marginalia of art ...

Alexa Grambush on the art of coming home to yourself. This article first appeared in Traverse Northern Michigan. Find this story and more when you explore our magazine library. Want Traverse delivered ...

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, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Women have never been given rights. They have fought for them, marched for them, and organized for them. Continually and ...