A painting by New York abstract artist Barnett Newman sold for a record $43.8 million at Sotheby's last night. Onement Vi, a 8.5ft by 10ft dark blue canvas with Newman's distinctive 'zip' running ...

Detail of a painting by Ha Chong-Hyun, from the “Conjunction” series, hanging in his studio. In recent years, the Dansaekhwa movement in Korea has been having a moment, to say the least. The abstract ...

Abstract painting can be a way to explore ideas without focusing on exactly how something looks. Abstract paintings use bright colours and detailed patterns, or can be monochromatic and simple. They ...

Sam Gilliam, a Washington DC artist who helped redefine abstract painting by liberating canvas from its traditional framework and shaking it loose in lavish, paint-spattered folds cascading from ...

FOR half a century art critics have undertaken to address not a sophisticated minority like the readers of literary magazines, but the mass of unbelievers to whom twentieth-century art is a mystery or ...

What are the most expensive abstract paintings in the world? I know that deep down inside you’re pretty certain you can churn out an ‘abstract’ painting. There’s a community out there who sees value ...

Abstract painting can be a way to explore ideas without focusing on exactly how something looks. Abstract paintings use bright colours and detailed patterns, or can be monochromatic and simple. They ...

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Ed Sheeran has put one of his artworks on sale for the first time as part of a charity auction. The pop star, 29, has donated the artwork, Dab 2 2020, to the Ed Sheeran: Made In Suffolk Legacy auction ...

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