Any painting created nearly 80 years ago would most certainly have something of a storied past. But the history of Mark Rothko’s Untitled (Yellow, Orange, Yellow, Light Orange), painted in 1955, is ...

THE DAILY PIC (#1694): Is there any artist who suffers more from his own clichés than poor old Mark Rothko? All that “expression” his abstraction is supposed to be paired with, all that angst, all ...

Abstract Expressionism is a non-representational way of making art, concerning less to reveal the subject but the manifestation of the painting act. Painting gestures or the capacity of the medium — ...

The titans of Abstract Expressionism are on view now at The Royal Academy of Arts in London. It’s a massive show comprising 163 works by 30 painters, sculptors, and photographers, and will likely go ...

A new documentary on Mark Rothko, one of the most influential artists of the 20th century, will debut tonight on PBS’ American Masters. His signature style helped define Abstract Expressionism, the ...

NEW YORK — In 1949, the avant-garde American sculptor Philip Pavia declared, "The first half of the century belonged to Paris. The next half century will be ours." He was referring to a loose ...

David Anfam during a preview of the exhibition Jackson Pollock's Mural: Energy Made Visible at the Deutsche Bank KunstHalle on November 24, 2015 in Berlin, Germany (photo by Adam Berry/Getty Images) ...

You might as well get one thing straight . . . I’m not an abstractionist. —Mark Rothko to Selden Rodman, 1957 It has long been one of the curiosities of abstract art that so many of its practitioners ...

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 ...