By folding, creasing, and ultimately draping his canvases, Sam Gilliam brought color abstraction closer to the viewer than any artist before him. Continue reading
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Abstract Art
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Half Animal, Half Symbolic
A Karel Appel exhibition opens at the Phillips Collection. Continue reading
Jackson Pollock: No Chaos
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
Kurt Seligmann: The Magus in the Mirror
The Surrealist painter and occultist writer Kurt Seligmann is having his first retrospective in 55 years. Continue reading
John Marin: The Romantic Cubist
Rejecting urbanism and irony, John Marin used European avant-garde methods to make a quintessentially American art. Continue reading
Ed Mieczkowski: Apollonian Op
Ed Mieczkowski’s “perceptual abstraction” can teach us to see how we see. Continue reading
Carioca Contemporary
Beatriz Milhazes layers Brazilian exuberance over abstractionist rigor. Continue reading
Anti-Oedipus
The abstract painter Michael Goldberg never felt the need to kill his artistic fathers, and he gladly acknowledged the roots of his originality. Continue reading