In a new exhibition, work from artists including Pablo Picasso and Wifredo Lam offer different ways to see what a portrait can represent ...

Recently the Benton has been holding a weekly series of 30 minute art lectures. This week’s was centered on the idea of abstract and realistic portraiture. Lead by tour guide Shoshana Levinson, an ...

A new work of art is in progress for Princeton’s collections, and 25 students — and their skin tones — are representing the campus community in the abstract collection of portraits called “Synecdoche.

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 ...

An artist drew attention in Dagupan City with an exhibit featuring abstract expressionist paintings that aim to evoke ...

Luca Del Baldo, ”Arthur C. Danto” (2010), oil on Belgian linen, 40 x 30 cm (all images courtesy of the artist) The title of the project is The Visionary Academy of Ocular Mentality. You could say that ...

Abstract art has traditionally been dominated by men, but female abstractionists have often been the trailblazers, as a new show at the National Museum of Women in the Arts makes abundantly clear.

Gertrude Greene was not an obvious choice to become a radical force in American abstract art. She was a woman born in 1906 to middle-class department store owners in Brooklyn. She was also a ...

In his preface to Abstract Art: A Global History—arriving this month from Thames & Hudson—Joseph Low (“Pepe”) Karmel, a professor of art history at New York University, writes that the goal of the ...

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.

A work of art is an abstract or epitome of the world. —Ralph Waldo Emerson, in Nature (1849) Let us look at this American artist first. How did he ever get to America, to start with? Why isn’t he a ...