A painting traveled from San Francisco across mountains, valleys, rivers and plains to arrive at SUNY Plattsburgh. The six-foot untitled painting by Harry Cohen takes you back in time and away from ...

When looking at an abstract work of art, ask yourself what it makes you feel rather than what it might represent, suggests ...

Explore how people perceive abstract expressionist art and can distinguish it from children's and animal paintings, despite initial doubts. If you wander through New York’s Museum of Modern Art, ...

Wassily Kandinsky’s 1932 painting Decisive Pink, like much of the early abstract painter’s work, is fun to look at. The titular pink rectangle on the left contrasts with a bright yellow background, ...

This video explores abstract painting as an artistic style that focuses on shapes, colors, textures, and composition rather than realistic representation. Abstract art allows artists to communicate ...

The pioneers of abstraction—the Cubists, the Abstract Expressionists, the Minimalists—emerged from firm and identifiable aesthetic roots and developed their own philosophies. In the competitive ...

In the 1950s, Jonah Kinigstein was on the verge of making it big in New York's art world. He won a Fulbright to Rome. His paintings got into the Whitney Museum's annual show of contemporary art (the ...

Great abstract painters like Pollock and Monet lose themselves in colour, sensation and memory to show that reality is subjective Abstract art is a kind of miracle. How can a painting that is just a ...

That’s enough to make art snobs flip. A famous abstract painting by the Dutch artist Piet Mondrian has been hanging upside down in museums for more than 75 years — after it was first displayed the ...