While today, abstraction is a widely deployed form of creative expression, this wasn’t always the case. At the turn of the 20th century, and evolving over the course of the next several decades, ...

“When I begin to paint, it’s like leaping suddenly into deep waters, and I never know beforehand whether I will be able to swim,” the German Expressionist artist Gabriele Münter remarked in a 1958 ...

George Grosz, “Attack (Attentat),” 1915, lithograph in black on laid paper. (National Gallery of Art/Purchased as the gift of Richard A. Simms and Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund/Estate of George ...

The paradigm of the “overlooked female artist” is both a cliché and a truth. We all know the art market is unceasingly hungry, and previously sidelined women artists are the perfect food. But that ...

In London, a new exhibition highlights how the movement emerged across the world during the mid-twentieth century. By Charlotte Jansen Reporting from London When the landmark Abstract Expressionism ...

In the aftermath of World War II, abstract expressionism burst onto the art scene as a defiant rejection of traditional forms and conventions. Artists like Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning ...

Thomas Berding, “Pie Chart Fanfare” (2015), oil and Flashe on canvas, 48 x 44 inches (courtesy The Painting Center) In terms of freewheeling, soul-bearing angst, Abstract Expressionism might once ...

Grace Hartigan, Cedar Bar, 1951. Oil on canvas, 39 x 31 ¾ in. Courtesy of Grace Hartigan Estate, The Levett Collection, and FAMM. Photo: Fraser Marr “We’re not writing them back into history,” ...

FOR half a century art critics have undertaken to address not a sophisticated minority like the readers of literary magazines, but the mass of unbelievers to whom twentieth-century art is a mystery or ...