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ACTION, GESTURE, PAINT Women artists and global abstraction 1940-70 Whitechapel Gallery, London, until May 7 IN 1966 THE ARTIST JOHN LATHAM checked Clement Greenberg's critical essays Art and Culture (1961) [...]

In Ed Clark's painting 'The Crescent,' there is a band of color that runs through the center of the painting that looks like molten lava. This churning of brown, red, [...]

Manet's work of painting is used by Foucault to illustrate a new way of painting and the changes in representing and looking at paintings objectively. It is observed that the transformation from the traditional representation to the objects of modernity reveals something that cannot be represented.

The last American painters of colossal spiritual ambition were such artists as Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, Barnett Newman, Willem de Kooning, Arshile Gorky, Clyfford Still, Adolph Gottlieb, Robert Motherwell--the Abstract [...]

'Kelmscott Chaucer', a joint writing effort of William Morris (1834-96) and Edward Burne-Jones (1833-98), is always appreciated as a major achievement in printing. Their work represents a reaction against the mode of abstract painting that has dominated art since the mid-twentieth century.

ERIC BANKS: One of the things that strikes me about the way you came to artmaking Is how incredibly collaborative your work was in the early '80s. ALBERT OEHLEN: That […]

UNTIL THE ADVENT of Andy Warhol, probably no postwar American artist had captured the popular imagination more than Jackson Pollock. His appearance in a feature article in Life magazine in [...]

Many musical compositions have been based on works of art and literature. One prominent example is how Paul Klee has inspired Peter Maxwell Davies's 'Five Klee Pictures,' Giselher Klebe's 'Die Zwitschermaschine: Metamorphose uber ein gleichnamiges Bild von Paul Klee,' and Gunther Schuller's 'Seven Studies on Themes of Paul Klee.'

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 [...]

GLOBALIZATION, OUR MANTRA OF THE MOMENT, only carries so far where art is concerned. A case in point: A major contemporary of Rothko, Newman, Pollock, Twombly, and Johns--an artist fully [...]

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 [...]