Only fools want to be famous (avoid at all cost ... he was in New York, studying art at Cooper Union. The Abstract Expressionist Norman Lewis (a Black American) befriended and mentored him ...

Sam Gilliam was a famous American abstract painter known for his suspended canvases, soaked in acrylic paint. As a young ...

He's generally thought of as the first entirely abstract artist, drawing inspiration from impressionist painters and music to develop his style of expression using colours and geometric shapes.

"My paintings are nothing else but the reflection of nature," he once wrote in a 1963 questionnaire for New York's Museum of Modern Art. In 1963, Morris Graves, a famous abstract painter from the ...

Isolated in the rural American Southwest and navigating the harsh realities of poverty in the 1930s, a small group of artists made sublime abstract art that sought to intuitively connect viewers ...

Then I learned about the Black artists during the Harlem Renaissance, and of Kehinde Wiley, and Jean-Michel Basquiat, and felt more seen. They helped inspire me to paint abstract pictures ...

Canelake says the work is bright and fun, but grounded in a deep knowledge of art history. Many of the paintings are homages to famous abstract painters, but Canelake says Millikan's style is all ...

This is one of Dutch artist Piet Mondrian’s famous abstract pieces, titled New York City I—and it may have been hanging upside down in museums since 1945, a year after the painter’s death.

Learn about Abstract Arts by studying the works of famous Russian artist Wassily Kandinsky then create your own abstract ...