Piet Mondrian was an early 20th-century abstract artist and art theorist obsessed with simplicity and essence of form. Even ...

Abstract art can be a tricky style for viewers to grasp, but it couldn’t be simpler for the artists currently setting up at Mare Island Art Studios. The shapes, squiggles and lines construct an ...

Viewing art is good for us, but new research may now tell us why — and that therapeutic uses may be better than previously ...

Abstract with Geometric Shapes [art work] / (photographed by Walter Rosenblum) Smithsonian American Art Museum and its Renwick Gallery. Click to open image viewer. ... Photograph Study Collection, ...

Tate Modern in London has unveiled an extensive exhibition celebrating the parallel evolution of photography and abstract art, voiced through more than 350 sculptures, paintings, installations and ...

Like Pollock’s late abstractions, Hankwitz’s art expands beyond the painting’s edges. We glimpse a fluid world of shapes in circular and wave-like motion whose inner workings we do not quite ...

Taking Shape explores mid-twentieth-century abstract art from North Africa, West Asia, and the Arab diaspora—a vast geographic expanse that encompasses diverse cultural, ethnic, linguistic, and ...

A famous abstract painting by the Dutch artist Piet Mondrian has been hanging upside down in museums for more than 75 years — after it was first displayed the wrong way at the Big Apple’s ...

A look at Wassily Kandinsky’s ‘Schaukeln’ which introduces abstract art and synaesthesia. ... It was just a collection of coloured shapes. He didn't know what it meant, but he LOVED it.