In this video, we'll show you how to create abstract sea waves using acrylic paint and sugar. If you're looking for a way to ...

With the return of sunlit evenings, warmer days and sprouting gardens, now is the perfect time for budding artists to celebrate the signs of spring through art. The new season brings about ...

Lorri Kelly began painting to express emotions following the death of her daughter. Abstract shapes and slashes emerged in bold, layered, colorful splashes that spoke loudly and eloquently of her ...

František Kupka “Plans by Color (Woman in Triangles)” (1911) oil on canvas, 109 x 99,5 cm, collection Centre Pompidou, Musée national d’art moderne achat ...

Meg Cranston: (L) 'Palette (red, yellow, violet),' (R) 'Palette (red, yellow, blue)' at Meliksetian Briggs(Scott Cantrell) From impressionism on, modern art has sometimes been as much about process as ...

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 ...

Thomas Downing, “Center Grid” (ca. 1960), detail (Image by the author for Hyperallergic) WASHINGTON, DC — The magazine selection in the visitors’ waiting room at the George Bush Center for ...

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 ...

Brenden Spivey’s big abstract paintings explode with color and hundreds of circles. His mixed-media works — on view now in New Albany’s Hayley Gallery — are all about energy and joy. By day, Spivey, ...

Welcome to One Fine Show, where Observer highlights a recently opened exhibition at a museum outside New York City—a place we know and love that already receives plenty of attention. An installation ...

"Color as Field: American Painting, 1950–1975," on view at the Smithsonian American Art Museum Feb. 29 through May 26, is the first full-scale exhibition to examine the sources, meaning and impact of ...