Kenneth Noland, the abstract artist ... with areas of color without actually filling the entire canvas. JEFFREY BROWN: What do we know about his roots and how he came to art?

If you’ve been online in the last five years, you’ve seen them: brightly colored human-like figures ... aesthetic principles of shape-based flat art into its in-house style, known as Alegria ...

At a time when the art world was still dominated by men, Helen Frankenthaler's abstract canvasses earned ... started painting with her canvasses flat on the floor after seeing Jackson Pollock ...

For his contribution to abstract art, Piet Mondrian is regularly ... I construct lines and color combinations on a flat surface, in order to express general beauty with the utmost awareness.