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The D.C. Street Where Pioneering Abstract Artist Alma Thomas Lived for 70 Years Has Been Renamed in Her Honor
Thomas worked as an art teacher at the city's public schools for 35 years before dedicating herself to painting full-time ...
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Mary Abbott Worked Alongside Abstract Expressionists Like Mark Rothko and Jackson Pollock. Now, She's Finally Getting Her Due
Some say there were just two rules governing the Club, a group of leading Abstract Expressionists in mid-century New York ...
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Rockefeller University to Sell 2 Abstract Expressionist Paintings
Rockefeller University in New York City plans to sell two paintings by the abstract expressionist Joan Mitchell to help ... “I’m no connoisseur of art, but it did not escape our attention that Joan ...
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Philomene Bennett, a founding mother of Kansas City's contemporary art scene, dies at 89
Bennett was known for her large-scale, colorful, abstract paintings and prints. She was a fixture in the Kansas City art community. Photographer Roy Inman spent time with Bennett as she worked in ...
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A gem, but not hidden: What to know about The River Studio Gallery in Norwich
Brathwaite, originally from New York City, found his way to Norwich after several life changes. The River Studio Gallery currently features an exhibition by Brathwaite, Daniel Charron, and Chris ...
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Your brain looks like this on abstract art
When you look at an abstract painting ... For one, viewing art is a proven stress-reliever. Researchers in 2003 had London City workers spit into a tube before and after spending a lunch break ...
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The rebel painter who ushered in a new era of Indian art
"My paintings are nothing else but the reflection of nature," he once wrote in a 1963 questionnaire for New York's Museum of Modern Art. In 1963, Morris Graves, a famous abstract painter from the ...