Lynn Gamwell’s thesis is based on the unsupportable premise that abstract painting -- the complete absence of representational imagery -- is art. The argument on that matter (which Michelle Kamhi and ...

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 ...

The greatest discoveries in art history, as in so many fields, tend to come from those working outside the box. Interdisciplinary studies break new ground because those steadfastly lashed to a ...

Curator Suzanne Weaver knows that people sometimes struggle with abstract art. “We all do,” she said. “Because, what is it? What does it represent? Where is the content? But as we go through this, you ...

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Who invented modern art? Or, more specifically, abstract art? We all know the answer. It was the free-thinking American and European painters of the mid-20th century, heroes like Mark Rothko, Jackson ...

Adeola Davies-Aiyeloja took a winding and intuitive path to realizing her vision as an artist—from early enjoyment to a self-taught discipline and years as an educator, to a practice built on ...

Preston H. Haskell III ’60 has made a leadership gift in the Venture Forward campaign toward the creation of the new Princeton University Art Museum, to be recognized with the naming of a new ...

As our celebration of Bllack History Month continues we're taking the time to appreciate one of the many contributors of abstract art-As Greg Wiley Edwards, an arts activist tells 23ABC’s Kristin ...

The world of abstract art is a mystery to me, as I imagine it is for most people. When you’re talking about colorful splotches on a canvas, what invisible committee decides that one person’s talent ...