As a youngster, I adored art class. I savored the opportunity to fashion absurd objects out of papier-mâché, construct miniature furniture out of old toilet paper tubes and try my hand at the messy ...
The uncertainty of the Great Depression era, along with exposure to European surrealists such as Dali, Mondrian and Leger, who sought refuge in the United States during the Second World War, produced ...
The image of a straight-laced CIA agent hardly goes hand and hand with the rebellious, chain-smoking, avant-garde artist, but ...
Several artists have made a mark in the world of abstract art. Jackson Pollock is famous for his drip paintings that emphasize spontaneity and movement. Mark Rothko is known for his color field ...
Her paintings infused a once-male-dominated genre with a feminist, lesbian sensibility. By Neil Genzlinger Louise Fishman, a widely exhibited artist who imbued her Abstract Expressionist paintings and ...