Byron Kim crouched on a small tarp unfurled in the middle of the atrium at the National Gallery of Art’s East Building, studying NGA housekeeper Leora Wilson’s skin and a dab of oil paint he ...

Lasting only a few short years, with a formal roster of just 10 artists (plus a few supportive associates), the abstract painting movement is high on the list of Best Kept Secrets in Modern art.

They named it the Transcendental Painting ... but abstract art in America was not mainstream at the time. Only two Americans were exhibited in the Museum of Modern Art’s 1936 show “Cubism ...

Suzan Frecon is a contemporary American artist best known for her Minimalist abstract oil paintings. Often repeating simple geometric ... in the public collections of the The Museum of Modern Art in ...

Tate Modern in London has unveiled an extensive exhibition celebrating the parallel evolution of photography and abstract art, voiced through more than 350 sculptures, paintings, installations and ...

The artist’s abstract work “Juin-Octobre 1985” is now the most expensive painting ever to go ... appetite for great examples of modern and contemporary art – be they Asian or Western ...

Yet, propelled by “modern ... The Art Institute of Chicago/Art Resource Moving to New York in 1956, he pioneered shaped canvases using collage, coating paper with strokes of oil paint that ...

Park Seo-bo, widely regarded as a seminal figure in the Korean modern abstract ... painting) movement that emerged in the early 1970s, Park emphasised the meditative aspects of art production ...

This week it was revealed that a huge stash of modern ... paintings were considered "degenerate" by the Nazis, who staged an exhibition especially to ridicule them. Why did Hitler hate abstract ...