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Abstractionism is a style of painting and art in general that rejects a realistic reproduction of the surrounding world. Its followers depict simple and complex forms, play with color, and use lines, ...

LENOX — In 1937, the American Abstract Artists held their first group show in the Squibb Gallery in New York City. The show would attract 1,500 viewers over the course of its three-week run, but the ...

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 ...

A recent gallery exhibition on abstract art and self-taught artists proposes a new story for the rise of abstraction. In the winter of 2012, New York’s Museum of Modern Art mounted a blockbuster-scale ...

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 ...

When an art dies, there is no announcement in the newspapers, as in the case of the demise of an eminent citizen. So no one knows that it is dead. It is still spoken of as if it were alive a modest ...

Sites like Art.com exist so you can have the art you love without paying a price that makes you gasp. Fill your walls with one of these stunning Pablo Picasso prints, because when you find art you ...

Art is subjective. No one person can look at one piece and interpret it the same as another. Each and every brush stroke, line and dot holds meaning. And yet, despite that powerful message, I have a ...