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Stanton Macdonald-Wright: Visual Haiku

Stanton Macdonald-Wright, Haiga Portfolio, An Old Pond, a Frog Leaps in the Sound of Water,

An exhibition of Stanton Macdonald-Wright’s late printmaking work shows how the pioneering abstract painter was influenced by Japanese art and literature. Continue reading →

Objective: Non-Objectivity

Rolph Scarlett joined the quest for a pure art so independent of the everyday world that it couldn’t even be called “abstract.” Continue reading →

Out of Frame

By folding, creasing, and ultimately draping his canvases, Sam Gilliam brought color abstraction closer to the viewer than any artist before him. Continue reading →

Half Animal, Half Symbolic

Karel Appel, Floating like the Wind, 1975

A Karel Appel exhibition opens at the Phillips Collection. Continue reading →

With his drip paintings, Jackson Pollock found a new kind of order that inspired future generations of artists in all media to strive for boundlessness. Featured Images: (Click to Enlarge) Jackson Pollock was born in 1912, in Cody, Wyo. Eight … Continue reading →

The Dappled Infinite

Robert Natkin’s serene abstract paintings open up to reveal luminous worlds of color and pattern. Continue reading →

Mark Rothko: A Theologian of Painting

Mark Rothko’s lifelong search for perfect clarity and truth through art produced great works on canvas and great anguish in the mind of the artist. Continue reading →