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 ...

San Francisco-based Foster Gwin Gallery has been a bastion of historically important art, from antiquity to today.

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 ...

Here are some of the most influential female painters who shaped modern art history. Frida Kahlo is famous for her intensely ...

a relatively new discipline when he began painting abstract art in the early 20th Century. This had a significant impact on the art he produced. Kandinsky, widely credited as the first abstract ...

Lucian Freud was one of the major figurative painters of the 20th century. Working in an uncompromisingly confrontational style, his portraits and nudes were rendered with a thickly laden brush. Often ...

Edo period Japanese painting, and 20th-century abstract art. They found that the values of α in these artworks range from 1.5 to 2.8, similar to the range of this value in natural trees.

In February 2013, the Moderna Museet, Stockholm’s national museum of modern art, opened a blockbuster show, “Hilma af Klint: A Pioneer of Abstraction,” heralding a then-obscure Swedish artist—a woman, ...