Works by the abstract Russian artist will go on show in "Bending Time", the first show at Prokofiev Studio in London.

These paintings are a lifelong season — a provocative, untethered push for understanding, an amalgamation of refractory ...

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 ...

Some artists — young and old alike — just don’t like realistic drawing. The task of portraying something exactly as it appears in real life can be daunting, and many find the process frustrating. For ...

A recent gallery exhibition on abstract art and self-taught artists proposes a new story for the rise of abstraction. In the ...

Brooks’s path to abstract painting was somewhat serpentine. Raised in Oklahoma, Colorado and Texas—his father was a traveling salesman—he studied art first in private classes (with a painter who had ...

Herriot said he produced all of the art currently in his studio between June and October. Credit: MONA MAHADEVAN PHOTO Herriot’s studio, filled with colorful, abstract art of various sizes. Herriot ...

When Alexander Calder was 11, he made his parents two small animal figurines for Christmas: a dog and a duck, both sculpted ...

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 ...

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 ...

Abstract art blends structure and freedom, using composition, color, and texture to create impact. From matte painting’s compositional discipline to abstract painting’s playful experimentation, ...