Some artists — young and old alike — just don’t like realistic drawing. The task of portraying something exactly as it appears in real life can be daunting, and many find the process frustrating. For ...

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, ...

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 ...

Don Voisine, "Odalisque" (2023), oil and acrylic on wood panel, 40 x 60 inches (all images courtesy McKenzie Fine Art, New York) By the time I reviewed Don Voisine’s work in 2013, he was a veteran ...

Can we speak of a geometric abstractionist tradition within postwar American art? In 1936, when Alfred Barr, the director of the then-new Museum of Modern Art, wrote that the two main strands of ...

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 ...

Kazimir Malevich unveiled his now iconic pared down painting of a black square on a white background in 1915. This was a moment that not only represented a turning point in art, but in politics too.

MOBILE, Alabama — Abstract art “should be enjoyed just as music is enjoyed,” said Jackson Pollock. “After a while you may like it or you may not.” Is abstract art something mere mortals are not meant ...

Frans Galea (1945-1994)'s sculptural practice occupies a marginal position within the narrative of Maltese modernism. His ...

Sheldon Harvey, "Convergence" (2022), oil on canvas, 59 x 84 inches (all images courtesy Modern West Fine Art) SALT LAKE CITY — Utah has never quite assimilated into the romantic lore of cowboys and ...