Flora Borsi created a world where abstract art is remodelled with real people as if the exaggerated features in abstract art were real. For this project the artist chose Picasso’s Woman with Green Hat, Rudolf Hausner’s Gelber Narrenhut, Amedeo Modigliani’s Portrait of a Polish Woman… Read More
A museum dedicated to painter Mark Rothko opened in his Latvian hometown Wednesday, a century after the abstract artist left and found fame and fortune in the United States. “It’s a wonderful homecoming for my father,” the late artist’s son, Christopher Rothko, told AFP at… Read More
Refractographs may look like computer candy, but they actually had their pictures taken with traditional photographic techniques. Refractographs are caustic patterns produced as light reflects and refracts through an object. Light painting photographer Rob Turney uses light, refraction, and long exposure light painting techniques for… Read More
Chinese-French abstract painter Zao Wou-Ki, a significant figure in 20th-century Chinese art, died Tuesday at his home in Switzerland aged 93, a lawyer for his wife told AFP. A lawyer for Zao’s son, who was in a legal battle with his father’s wife to obtain… Read More
In 1912, in several European cities, a handful of artists—Vasily Kandinsky, Frantisek Kupka, Francis Picabia, and Robert Delaunay—presented the first abstract pictures to the public. The exihibition “Inventing Abstraction, 1910–1925″ at the MoMA currently celebrates the centennial of this bold new type of artwork, tracing… Read More
The Musées Royaux des Beaux-Arts of Brussels shows the exhibition «Kandinsky & Russia». From 8 March up to 30 June, you can come and admire more than 150 works of art at the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium. Among these works of art:… Read More
One hundred years ago, Hilma af Klint painted pictures for the future. By 1906, she had developed an abstract pictorial imagery – some years before artists such as Kandinsky, Malevich and Mondrian. Moderna Museet is celebrating Hilma af Klint as a pioneer of abstract art… Read More
After semi-truck driver Teri Horton bought a large splatter painting for her friend for $5, she was forced to sell it in her own garage sale when her friend said she had no place for it. Eventually someone commented on the painting stating it might… Read More
A seminal work by abstract artist Mark Rothko fetched a huge $75.1 million at Sotheby’s Tuesday, while a new record was set for a Jackson Pollock drip painting as the big spenders came out in force. “No. 1 (Royal Red and Blue)” is seen by… Read More
Helen Frankenthaler (December 12, 1928 – December 27, 2011) was an American abstract expressionist painter. She was a major contributor to the history of postwar American painting. Having exhibited her work for over six decades (early 1950s until 2011), she spanned several generations of abstract… Read More
