The great grandfather of geometric abstract painting was Piet Mondrian but his ideas of great simplicity -- few colors, fewer lines -- have been expanded exponentially by his children, grandchildren, ...

NEWARK Art museums are in the business of sorting out history. And it often falls to our smaller institutions to tackle the initial, broad-stroke cuts. Over the years the Newark Museum has taken on ...

For much of human history, people made art by trying to represent the world as it appeared around them. Until about 100 years ago, when a bunch of artists stopped trying to do that. It was shocking ...

Claude Monet’s palette of blues, Vincent van Gogh’s bright yellows, the city of Oaxaca’s vibrant red and a Chicago-style hot dog. They’re all forms of inspiration in artist Chip Fesko’s watercolor ...

Guillermet, a prominent Costa Rican artist with a focus on geometric abstraction, engages viewers through her pioneering reinterpretation of urban landscapes within the framework of geometric ...

Al Loving, an innovative abstract artist whose work evolved from geometric paintings to colorful collages and murals, has died. He was 69. Loving died June 21 in New York’s Memorial Sloan-Kettering ...

Documentary which tells the story of abstract art in Britain through the words of some of its leading lights and documents the often-uncertain public response to abstract art. Show more Documentary ...

A paper published in the most recent issue of Adaptive Behavior significantly updates the long-standing thesis that the global prevalence in prehistoric art of “certain types of geometric visual ...