The great grandfather of geometric abstract painting was Piet Mondrian but his ideas of great simplicity -- few colors, fewer lines -- have been expanded exponentially by his children, grandchildren, ...

Don Voisine, "Odalisque" (2023), oil and acrylic on wood panel, 40 x 60 inches (all images courtesy McKenzie Fine Art, New York) By the time I reviewed Don Voisine’s work in 2013, he was a veteran ...

Gary Petersen, "Both of Us" (2022), acrylic and oil on canvas, 54 x 90 inches (all images courtesy McKenzie Fine Art, New York; photos by Jason Mandella) I have been following Gary Petersen’s work ...

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The exhibition “Both Sides of the Line” honoring Carmen Herrera & Leon Polk Smith in the A. Alfred Taubman Gallery at the UMMA Oct. 30. Randall Xiao/DAILY. Buy this photo. Born in Cuba in 1915, ...

Can we speak of a geometric abstractionist tradition within postwar American art? In 1936, when Alfred Barr, the director of the then-new Museum of Modern Art, wrote that the two main strands of ...

Since the 1960s, artists throughout Northeast Ohio have experimented with geometric abstraction and Op Art. Many local contemporary artists continue to advance the genre in new and unexpected ...

Claude Monet’s palette of blues, Vincent van Gogh’s bright yellows, the city of Oaxaca’s vibrant red and a Chicago-style hot dog. They’re all forms of inspiration in artist Chip Fesko’s watercolor ...

As a young American in Paris in 1949 — four years out of the Army and one year out of a Boston art school — Ellsworth Kelly had an epiphany. The key to creative inspiration was in the world around him ...

Abstract art blends structure and freedom, using composition, color, and texture to create impact. From matte painting’s compositional discipline to abstract painting’s playful experimentation, ...