Abstract painting can be a way to explore ideas without focusing on exactly how something looks. Abstract paintings use bright colours and detailed patterns, or can be monochromatic and simple. They ...
Sean Scully, "Heart of Darkness" (1982), oil on canvas, 8 x 12 feet. Art Institute of Chicago, Gift of Society for Contemporary Art (image courtesy the Art Institute ...
AWARD-winning North Yorkshire-based artist Julia Burns is best known locally for her charming and affordable animal potato prints, which are fast becoming collectors’ items. But her passion for ...
Diane Burko, "Unprecedented" (2021), mixed media, 8 x 15 feet (all images courtesy the artist) WASHINGTON, DC — At the heart of Diane Burko’s retrospective exhibition at the American University Museum ...
Years before Jackson Pollock was immortalized in the pages of Life magazine—cigarette dangling from his mouth, flinging paint across a canvas on his studio floor—Janet Sobel created her own unique ...
Artists who work with technology are typically viewed as nerds sequestered in studios filled with hardware, gadgetry, and complex wiring. But WangShui, an artist who made their name on innovative ...
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 ...
A Turner Prize-nominated abstract artist has spoken about how her work was inspired by the Welsh countryside. Gillian Ayres, whose paintings are featured in the Tate Gallery and the Museum of Modern ...
Abstract art often gets an undeserved bad rap. Many people famously dismissed Jackson Pollock‘s signature drip paintings in the 1950s, for instance, as being something that a trained chimpanzee could ...