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 ...
As soon as I stepped inside the Museum of Modern Art’s chronological retrospective “Sophie Taeuber-Arp: Living Abstraction,” I felt delighted, like a kid again. I was captivated by expressive movement ...
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 ...
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With the return of sunlit evenings, warmer days and sprouting gardens, now is the perfect time for budding artists to celebrate the signs of spring through art. The new season brings about ...
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The hidden abstract structure behind every realistic artwork
At first, abstract art and realistic art seem completely opposite, but they are deeply connected at a fundamental level. In ...
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How abstract thinking builds strong realistic art skills
Abstract art is often seen as the opposite of realism, but in truth it forms the foundation of all strong realistic artwork.
In recent years, queer artists—and other marginalized groups—have flocked to figuration, finding new opportunities to include representations of themselves into canons that have long disregarded them.
It has been written about Dyani White Hawk (Sičáŋǧu Lakota, b. 1976) that she honors Lakota culture while expanding its expression through new art forms and innovations. Better stated, she honors ...
The greatest discoveries in art history, as in so many fields, tend to come from those working outside the box. Interdisciplinary studies break new ground because those steadfastly lashed to a ...
IT is not easy to find meaning amid the drips and daubs, splashes and swirls of contemporary abstract painting. But John I. H. Baur, curator of Manhattan’s Whitney Museum of American Art, believes he ...
Art is subjective. No one person can look at one piece and interpret it the same as another. Each and every brush stroke, line and dot holds meaning. And yet, despite that powerful message, I have a ...
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