Kenneth Noland, the abstract artist whose sensitive approach to color helped define and establish the Washington Color Field school of painting, died Tuesday at the age of 85 at his home in Maine.

“You can talk about light, scale, depth, beauty, color, shape, form, perspective,” the great mid-century abstract painter Helen Frankenthaler once said, “but it’s no formula of those things that make ...

Here’s an old question that I find is still alive for a lot of people: How do you look at an abstract painting? Are you meant to just immerse yourself in the wordless presence of its colors? Or does ...

The primary authors of this post are Dirk B. Walther (University of Toronto) and Claudia Damiano (KU Leuven) Have you ever stood before an abstract painting, feeling a surge of emotion but struggling ...

In this video, discover how to turn basic materials into breathtaking abstract art. Using texture paste and acrylic paints, I’ll guide you step-by-step through the process of creating a rich, ...

Alma Thomas developed her unique abstract painting style only after retiring at age 68, in 1960, as a Washington, D.C., junior-high-school teacher. She called her forms “Alma’s Stripes” for their ...

The Bay Area artist opens 2026 with “Large New England Landscapes (Selected Paintings 2008-2025)” and “Giant Abstract and ...

RAWALPINDI: For the first time, an exhibition titled Wandering Forms showcased abstract painting by Abdullah Qureshi, a London-based artist, at the National College of Arts’ Potohar Gallery on ...