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 ...

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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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

In recent years, abstract and impressionist art has continued to grow and change, with artists using new ideas and techniques to express deep emotions, spirituality, and the mysteries of life.

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 ...

Created half a century apart, two exhibitions by two painters make ardent cases for abstraction. By Jonathan Griffin “Art should be about nothing,” my friend, the abstract painter Liam Everett told me ...