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A famous abstract painting by the Dutch artist Piet Mondrian has been hanging upside down in museums for more than 75 years — after it was first displayed the wrong way at the Big Apple’s MoMA ...
This abstract piece became world famous when it broke the record for the most expensive painting by a living European artist, selling for a whopping £30.4 million in 2015 at Sotheby's in London.
Created by American Abstract Expressionist painter Jackson Pollock, No. 5, 1948 ranks 16th in our list of most famous paintings in the world. It was done on a fiberboard eight feet high and four ...
Picasso, who lived to 91, was famous for switching his artistic techniques and styles throughout his life. His critical acclaim in the modern art scene gained him a mass following the likes of ...
Can textiles made in the deep South by the granddaughters of slaves provide fresh insights into 20th century abstract painting? A new exhibit of Gee's Bend quilts at the Metropolitan Museum of Art ...
The hidden drawing was found beneath Picasso's abstract work "Still Life" painted in 1922. It is now in the Art Institute of Chicago. (Image credit: Photo courtesy Art Institute of Chicago) ...
This cartoon, based on a famous Rembrandt painting, lampoons the art establishment's promotion of abstract expressionism in the mid-20th century. Jonah Kinigstein/Fantagraphics ...
The urge to tell posterity “I was here” runs through art from Jackson Pollock, who allegedly hid a giant signature in one of his most famous abstract paintings, right back to Jan van Eyck, the ...
In the 1960s, abstract painting was a controversial style for Black artists, overshadowed by social realist works. Now, it’s claimed its place as a vital form of expression.
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