If you see the words “Abstract Painting” and think we are just going to throw some paint at a canvas willy-nilly, well think again! Acrylic paint is a versatile water-based medium that allows for a ...

The inquisitive minds of the scientific community who most appreciated the dimmed lights and hushed lecture rooms of their early morning undergrad art history lectures might have figured out what ...

There is more than a little truth in the cliche that the average abstract painting could be reproduced by randomly spraying a canvas with paint, or by taking some hyperactive child's fingerpainting ...

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 ...

Abstract art often gets an undeserved bad rap. Many people famously dismissed Jackson Pollock‘s signature drip paintings in the 1950s, for instance, as being something that a trained chimpanzee could ...

The Abstract Expressionists emerged from obscurity in the late 1940s to establish New York as the centre of the art world – but some say they became pawns of US spies in the Cold War. Alastair Sooke ...