In the traditional sense, abstract painting requires a remarkable imagination. For both the painter and the observer. While inspiration may come from the actual, the end product rests more in the ...

Presented with a plain white wall, it can feel a little daunting to paint on that first splash of colour. But once you get past that anxiety, you can create something seriously magical – especially if ...

Some artists — young and old alike — just don’t like realistic drawing. The task of portraying something exactly as it appears in real life can be daunting, and many find the process frustrating. For ...

Strapped for cash and looking for a way to keep open her fledgling dog-training academy, Mary Stadelbacher hit upon a bizarre fund-raising scheme. If she could teach dogs to become service animals for ...

Explore how people perceive abstract expressionist art and can distinguish it from children's and animal paintings, despite initial doubts. If you wander through New York’s Museum of Modern Art, ...

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In a cluttered studio on South Flores, weak sunlight from the January morning suffusing two big windows, Sandy Whitby squats over a large canvas stirring a plastic bucket of white house paint. Dressed ...

In the 1990s, Rebecca Morris began to search for methods of constructing abstract paintings in surprising ways. And constructing is the operative term — as are synonyms like building, fabricating and ...

Diane Burko, "Unprecedented" (2021), mixed media, 8 x 15 feet (all images courtesy the artist) WASHINGTON, DC — At the heart of Diane Burko’s retrospective exhibition at the American University Museum ...

Artwork by Giant Panda, Yang-Yang, goes on sale. Giant Panda Yang Yang uses finger paint and a brush to create a picture at Schoenbrunn Zoo in Vienna, Austria, Aug. 10, 2018. Heinz-Peter Bader/Reuters ...