Experience the creative journey of making a textured mixed-media abstract painting featuring a stunning mandala motif. Follow step-by-step as bold black and white palette knife strokes set the ...

Admire this stunning abstract painting created using the acrylic pour technique in black and gold tones. Every detail creates a unique and elegant effect that brings sophistication and style to any ...

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 ...

Here’s an old question that I find is still alive for a lot of people: How do you look at an abstract painting? Are you meant to just immerse yourself in the wordless presence of its colors? Or does ...

What are the most expensive abstract paintings in the world? I know that deep down inside you’re pretty certain you can churn out an ‘abstract’ painting. There’s a community out there who sees value ...

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 ...

Thomas Downing, “Center Grid” (ca. 1960), detail (Image by the author for Hyperallergic) WASHINGTON, DC — The magazine selection in the visitors’ waiting room at the George Bush Center for ...

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 ...

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 ...