SEOUL, Oct. 28 (Yonhap) -- Korean abstract master Kim Whanki (1913-1974) was already a well-established artist in South Korea when he moved to New York at the age of 50. A relentless innovator in his ...

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 ...

Gilliam, one of the most celebrated Black artists of his generation, was known for his Drape works. Vibrantly painted pieces of fabric were hung by clips and couldn't be presented the same way twice.

Landscape painters are rarely the stuff of big headlines, or shocking revelations. And then there’s Andrew Wyeth. The Delaware County painter, famous for his painstakingly realist portraits and ...

Richard Pousette-Dart, “Center of Being IV (Original Black Circle)” (1979), etching, plate: 17 13/16 x 23 3/4 inches, sheet: 21 15/16 x 28 inches (all images courtesy Del Deo & Barzune) A member of ...

This season on American Masters, Rothko: Pictures Must Be Miraculous tells the story of the art world giant whose signature color fields helped define the Abstract Expressionist movement. In the late ...

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 ...

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 ...