Mathematicians have calculated a “golden rule” for abstract art that famous artists tend to follow when they compose their ...

This video shows a couple enjoying a spin art session where paint is transformed into a vibrant abstract design. The process highlights creativity, movement, and color blending as a unique artwork ...

Kenneth Noland, the abstract artist whose sensitive approach to color helped define and establish the Washington Color Field school of painting, died Tuesday at the age of 85 at his home in Maine.

On the legacy of post-painterly abstraction, occasioned by the exhibition and catalogue for “Color as Field: American Painting 1950–1975.” In 1964, Clement Greenberg was invited by the Los Angeles ...

Abstract art has a bad reputation. For many people, it’s just shapes and lines, sometimes also some smears of paint thrown in ...

The pioneers of abstraction—the Cubists, the Abstract Expressionists, the Minimalists—emerged from firm and identifiable aesthetic roots and developed their own philosophies. In the competitive ...

“You can talk about light, scale, depth, beauty, color, shape, form, perspective,” the great mid-century abstract painter Helen Frankenthaler once said, “but it’s no formula of those things that make ...

African bead art has been making waves in the world of modern abstract design. The colorful and intricate beadwork, which has ...

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 ...