"Number 7A, 1948" is considered one of history's "first truly abstract paintings," according to Christie's New York ...

A Jackson Pollock artwork, described as one of history's "first truly abstract paintings", has sold at auction for $181m ...

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

This type of art often seems confusing or even random to the average viewer. Abstract art has a bad reputation. For many ...

History was made this week when Jackson Pollock's Number 7A, 1948 painting fetched the most of any 'truly abstract painting' ...

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 ...

A mathematical method borrowed from topology can reveal structural properties of visual art that correspond to how people ...

Great abstract painters like Pollock and Monet lose themselves in colour, sensation and memory to show that reality is subjective Abstract art is a kind of miracle. How can a painting that is just a ...

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 ...

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 ...