The art world endured a number of significant shifts during the twentieth century, yet the advent of abstract painting was an enormous rupture that fractured how art was engaged in, studied and ...

While abstract art became the dominant art form of the 20th century, it started to evolve in the 19th Century. This timeline will lead you through some of the key works, with images from the BBC ...

U.S. painting of the immediate postwar era became dominated by what has come to be known as Abstract Expressionism. In 1955 the critic Clement Greenberg published American-Type Painting, championing ...

Wassily Kandinsky, often credited as the father of abstract art, played a pivotal role in its development. In the early 20th century, Kandinsky explored art as a means of expressing spiritual and ...

Alberto Burri was an Italian artist and one of the most prominent abstract painters of the 20th century. Associated with the Arte Povera movement ... Captured in Tunisia, Burri was interned at Camp ...

Havana-born American artist Carmen Herrera, a pioneer of 20th-century abstract painting, has died aged 106. She passed away peacefully in her sleep on Sunday 13 February 2022 at her apartment and ...

“Southern/Modern: Rediscovering Southern Art From the First Half of the Twentieth Century” doesn’t pull exclusively from that collection, however. It’s a collaborative traveling exhibition ...