Piet Mondrian died in 1944, aged seventy-one, and by the time of his death he had pushed the concept of abstraction in painting on into the field of the non-objective and beyond it, into areas where ...
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Geometric abstraction, the almost mathematical deployment of color and form, boasts a rich history that dates back to such early 20th-century masters as ...
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 ...
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, ...
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 ...
NEWARK Art museums are in the business of sorting out history. And it often falls to our smaller institutions to tackle the initial, broad-stroke cuts. Over the years the Newark Museum has taken on ...
Lisa Corinne Davis, "Convulsive Calculation" (2025), oil on canvas (all images courtesy the artist and Miles McEnery Gallery, New York, NY; image by JSP Art Photography) Five years ago, I reviewed ...
When discussing 20th-century Korean art, dansaekhwa, or Korean monochrome paintings, take center stage. But in the western world, geometric abstraction was all the rage. Korea's view on the latter art ...
The sculpture scene in Colorado clearly takes a back seat to the state’s vast painting scene, an inequality that has been evident for a least a century. This doesn’t mean that there weren’t, or aren’t ...