Abstract Art

Features From Previous Issues

Hans Hofmann: Drawing an Outline

A current exhibition shows the importance of works on paper in Hans Hofmann’s long and lauded career. Continue reading →

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 →