In the 1990s, Rebecca Morris began to search for methods of constructing abstract paintings in surprising ways. And constructing is the operative term — as are synonyms like building, fabricating and ...
The action star exhibits abstract paintings alongside works by musicians Paul Simonon and Chris Rivers at the 31st annual ...
Abstract artist Piet Mondrian’s masterpiece, Composition No. II, is expected to achieve more than US$50 million at a Sotheby’s auction in November. The square painting, created in 1930, features the ...
Nobody believes in the simple narrative arc of Modern Art anymore; even so, Painting in Italy 1910s-1950s: Futurism, Abstraction, Concrete Art at Sperone Westwater is an instructive glimpse into the ...
Image of a flower with blue petals on a blue background. I can almost feel it, beneath my parka. Not quite, but almost: burgeoning, blossoming, a murmur of springtime. At the Solomon R. Guggenheim ...
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 ...
The bidding on the Jean-Paul Riopelle abstract painting Composition at the Heffel auction Wednesday started off at $500,000. Going up in increments of $25,000, it quickly bounced to $575,000. But then ...
Mary Heilmann, “Rio Nido” (1987), acrylic and oil on canvas, 39 x 58 in (all images via cheimread.com) Before there were the New Casualists, there were the Provisional Painters, and before there were ...
Oct. 6 (UPI) --A painting by Piet Mondrian, a Dutch painter and early pioneer of abstract art, is expected to garner more than $50 million in an auction next month. Mondrian's signature black grid ...