Abstract art often gets an undeserved bad rap. Many people famously dismissed Jackson Pollock's signature drip paintings in the 1950s, for instance, as being something that a trained chimpanzee ...

After World War II, realism was supplanted by abstract expressionism ... conspired not only to inundate the world with bad art but to render art irrelevant. Nothing irks Beal more.

The world of abstract art is a mystery to me ... “But as a piece of theater, the circus encircling her isn’t half-bad.” A few years earlier, a very similar circus had encircled a 4-year ...

The exhibition On Documentary Abstraction, now on view at the Art Center/South Florida (until ... ultimately ignored centuries of abstract and formalist practices from around the world,” Rakes ...

Why did Hitler hate abstract art so much? In July 1937, four years after it came to power, the Nazi party put on two art exhibitions in Munich. The Great German Art Exhibition was designed to show ...

The duo wanted to test the assertion that abstract expressionist art is devoid of talent – that it could be done by a mere child, or even an animal. With keyboards and enough time, monkeys could ...