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.

The pioneers of abstraction—the Cubists, the Abstract Expressionists, the Minimalists—emerged from firm and identifiable aesthetic roots and developed their own philosophies. In the competitive ...

Elisabeth Condon, “American Pastorale” (2016), ink, acrylic, glitter and pumice on linen, 59 x 59 inches (photo by Phillip Reed, all images courtesy Lesley Heller Workspace) It isn’t easy to make a ...

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 ...

“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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...