Abstract art is a significant tradition in the art world that deliberately does not aim to depict visual reality accurately. Instead, it utilizes shapes, colors, forms, and gestural marks to ...

Abstract art has its roots in early human civilisation ... with a number of styles before eventually developing a vigorously gestural technique, dripping and spattering paint across his canvases ...

Grace Hartigan was a leading Abstract Expressionist painter known for combining gestural abstraction with imagery derived from art history and popular culture. In one of her best-known works The ...

White Cube has announced its representation of Yoko Matsumoto, the Tokyo-born artist whose career spans six decades of ...

Jiro Yoshihara was a Japanese artist known for his gestural abstract impasto paintings and zen-painting inspired hard-edge circles. He was associated with post-impressionism, surrealism, abstract art, ...

For about a decade, the Shah Garg Foundation has showcased work by women artists. It's a mission that shouldn't be necessary in the 21st century, yet the art world often celebrates small strides ...

elicited much buzz as they challenged two pillars of conventional art-world wisdom. First, back then, painting was thought to be a retrograde, even dying, medium. Second, gestural abstraction was ...

Room-sized canvases in tan, gray, and off-white with this distinctive gestural abstraction, scribbles, words, and omissions depicting a kind of chaos and order, fascinated writer Joshua Rivkin. After ...