Alma Thomas developed her unique abstract painting style only after retiring at age 68, in 1960, as a Washington, D.C., junior-high-school teacher. She called her forms “Alma’s Stripes” for their ...

Willem de Kooning, the Dutch American artist widely celebrated for his contributions to the Abstract Expressionist movement, was still searching for recognition as a 37-year-old painter when the ...

Asad J. Malik wanted a way to express what he was feeling and thinking without actually saying anything out loud. Art, of course, has long been a favored form of such expression, but he also wanted ...

Thomas Downing, “Center Grid” (ca. 1960), detail (Image by the author for Hyperallergic) WASHINGTON, DC — The magazine selection in the visitors’ waiting room at the George Bush Center for ...

Have you ever looked at an abstract painting and wondered what the artist was thinking? A splash of color on a canvas can ...

Review: Hilma af Klint, The Secret Paintings. Art Gallery of New South Wales. In 1986, those art historians who see art as some form of linear progression “improving” with time received a rude shock.

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 ...

Viewers may imagine a watery landscape or a stormy sky, drawn into the natural drama of a monumental canvas. The effect is far more visceral and connected to nature than a depiction of a typical ...