Abstract art often gets an undeserved bad rap. Many people famously dismissed Jackson Pollock‘s signature drip paintings in the 1950s, for instance, as being something that a trained chimpanzee could ...

Jonathan G. Keller's art is abstract, but the message behind his bright, colorful, almost hypnotic paintings is anything but. "I like people to take away growth, whether it be spiritual growth or ...

The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth will host the first major retrospective in more than 25 years of one of America’s best-known abstract expressionist painters, Robert Motherwell. The museum has more ...

Art is subjective. No one person can look at one piece and interpret it the same as another. Each and every brush stroke, line and dot holds meaning. And yet, despite that powerful message, I have a ...

Researchers studying people's brain activity when looking at abstract art have revealed why we interpret blobs of paint on canvas so differently. When you look at an abstract painting, study it in a ...

In the 1960s, abstract painting was a controversial style for Black artists, overshadowed by social realist works. Now, it’s claimed its place as a vital form of expression. Howardena Pindell, a ...

Sam Weis works in her studio at her home in Springville on Dec. 12. Weis, who is also a guitarist, has an exhibit of her artwork at the downtown Cedar Rapids Public Library. (Jim Slosiarek/The Gazette ...