At a time when the art world was still dominated by men, Frankenthaler's canvasses earned the respect of critics and influenced generations of artists. One of the major abstract expressionist ...

ARTHUR GIARDELLI, the artist best known for his “salvage” works of art, has died at the age of 98. Oxford-educated Giardelli studied at the Ruskin School of Art and under Cedric Morris.

One study into the stress-reducing effects of art in pediatric health care found that when compared with a range of impressionist and abstract images, representational artworks of nature were the ...

Erin Morrison uses a monoprint process to make low-relief sculptures that look like contemporary abstract paintings — of the lyrical variety — while putting visitors in mind of ancient ruins ...

Frank Stella, a towering figure in the field of abstract art for the past 65 years, has died, aged 87. His death on 4 May, at home in New York City, was announced by Marianne Boesky Gallery, which ...

Seattle Art Museum is getting a major gift of abstract expressionist and European masterworks — including those by Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning — from the collection once owned ...