Sean Scully, "Heart of Darkness" (1982), oil on canvas, 8 x 12 feet. Art Institute of Chicago, Gift of Society for Contemporary Art (image courtesy the Art Institute ...

Walk into any contemporary gallery in Las Vegas, and you'll likely encounter a canvas splashed with colors that seem to defy logic. No recognizable shapes. No obvious subject. Just pure, raw visual ...

In a literal sense, every artist contemplates and reckons with a lifetime's worth of places and encounters. A Wisconsin native who studied at Columbia College, and now resides in Tacoma, Washington, ...

John Mendelsohn, whose work should be better known, belongs to the small group of abstract artists for whom art and research are inseparable. The best-known proponent of this union was Josef Albers, ...

A brilliant colorist, he hung his canvases from ceilings in great curves and loops, or pinned them, gathered, to walls, taking his medium into three dimensions. By Roberta Smith Sam Gilliam, a ...

Viewers may imagine a watery landscape or a stormy sky, drawn into the natural drama of a monumental canvas. The effect is far more visceral and connected to nature than a depiction of a typical ...

Created half a century apart, two exhibitions by two painters make ardent cases for abstraction. By Jonathan Griffin “Art should be about nothing,” my friend, the abstract painter Liam Everett told me ...

Principal Fellow (Hon), Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne. Editor in Chief, Design and Art of Australia Online, The University of Melbourne In 1986, those art historians who see ...

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 ...