Explore the world of textured and layered abstract art with this step-by-step tutorial showcasing three innovative projects. Learn how to use modeling paste, acrylic paints, and stencils to create ...

It has been written about Dyani White Hawk (Sičáŋǧu Lakota, b. 1976) that she honors Lakota culture while expanding its expression through new art forms and innovations. Better stated, she honors ...

At just 30, the art of Patrick Alston is already immediately identifiable, with a signature materiality and use of gestural marks to create dynamic and colorful abstractions. The central themes of his ...

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 ...

In the 1950s, Jonah Kinigstein was on the verge of making it big in New York's art world. He won a Fulbright to Rome. His paintings got into the Whitney Museum's annual show of contemporary art (the ...

The primary authors of this post are Dirk B. Walther (University of Toronto) and Claudia Damiano (KU Leuven) Have you ever stood before an abstract painting, feeling a surge of emotion but struggling ...

Art is subjective. No one person can look at one piece and interpret it the same as another. Each and every brush stroke, line and dot holds meaning. And yet, despite that powerful message, I have a ...

A survey at the Walker Art Center celebrates the interdisciplinary artist Dyani White Hawk, whose works are grounded in the Lakota philosophy of connectedness. The artist Dyani White Hawk, in her ...

FOR half a century art critics have undertaken to address not a sophisticated minority like the readers of literary magazines, but the mass of unbelievers to whom twentieth-century art is a mystery or ...

What if you could distill the essence of creativity into 25 distinct visual languages, each brimming with texture, rhythm, and emotion? Abstract art, with its boundless capacity for interpretation, ...