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This article examines the style of mark-making in the work of Australian abstract artists Allan Mitelman and Mostyn Bramley-Moore. The author suggests that the small, expressive marks and muted colors that define these paintings are meant to inspire inward contemplation.

Carroll Dunham's paintings range from the grotesque to the comic. Crude, angry characters wielding knives and toting guns pervade his works, and so do blotches and blobs in the form of anuses or vaginas. Some of Dunham's works are also inspired by cartoons.

A black painter who grew up in a family of musicians recounts his experiences of how and why he started to paint. The tragedy he witnessed as a serviceman during the Vietnam war left him shocked. Working on many jobs and becoming homeless after the death of his mother, taught him to be humble. During his homelessness, he started painting jazz abstractions and portraits of jazz musicians. His paintings were displayed in arts gallery in 1992. His joining a South Hampton artists' association gave him the opportunity to present the Congo Square, which described the origination of jazz.

THIS MONTH, MORE THAN FORTY YEARS AFTER JAMES ROSENQUIST BEGAN CAPTURING ON CANVAS THE LARGER-THAN-LIFE, COLOR-SATURATED IMAGERY OF CONSUMER CULTURE, A MAJOR TRAVELING RESTROSPECTIVE OF HIS WORK COMES TO THE [...]

Sidney Tillim began his career as an art critic by answering a 'Help Wanted' ad in the back of Arts Digest. It was 1953, and at the time, he was [...]

There currently seems to be a revival of interest in abstract painting. Richard Kalina, Fiona Rae, Stephen Ellis, Jonathan Lasker and Moira Dryer are some of the painters who are bringing their own individual sensibilities to the abstract field. The artists and their works are discussed.

Kay Walkingstick seeks an emotional rush through art making, painting with her hands rather than a brush and building up thick, viscous surfaces that bear the sinuous marks of the artist's fingers. The majority of her works are diptychs where almost all of her paintings feature an abstract geometric shape on one panel and a landscape on the other.

Fabian Marcaccio fossilizes painting, preserving its body without admitting tha it is completely dead. He uses the most traditional elements of painting--ground, brushstroke, color, frame--in ways that both acknowledge thei [...]

British-born painter and art critic Andrew Forge lives and works near Waterbury, CT, and will have the first retrospective exhibit of his work at the Yale Center for British Art. Forge, in his search for something 'real,' constructs his abstract paintings one dot at a time.

A new perspective on mythology, abstraction and mystery is described. The Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza in Madrid in July 2003 presented this information and the points of reference that help explain the way the paintings came to be.

This article examines the intersections between the work of Australian artists Savandhary Vongpoothorn and Helga Groves, focusing on their abstract painting styles that often employ a grid-structure. Topics include the distinctions between form and function, memory, and the creation of meaning.

This article examines the abstract paintings of native Australian artist Alison McMaugh, focusing on the influence of Modernism on her non-figurative work. Topics include aesthetic codes and the workings of color in McMaugh's art.

This article examines the abstract paintings of Australian artists Elisabeth Cummings, David Fairbairn, John Peart, and Suzanne Archer. Topics include how the natural environment and landscapes of Australia influence the color, mood and subject of their work.

I distrust narratives of origins--here is where my desire began--but I repeatedly feel compelled to concoct them. 1977: a college sophomore, naive, addicted to obfuscation, I visited the Jasper Johns [...]