In recent years, abstract and impressionist art has continued to grow and change, with artists using new ideas and techniques to express deep emotions, spirituality, and the mysteries of life.

I have always marveled at the way in which Abstract Expressionism was able to transform a disparate group of painters, none of whom had shown any particular promise of artistic greatness, into fi By ...

As complex as the abstract impressionist paintings she created, Nellie Leaman Taft was spirited and social, and also needed time alone to paint and to curate exhibitions. Among her ancestors was ...

New exhibitions opening this month at the San Diego Museum of Art celebrate two often overlooked groups of artists: black photographers of the civil rights era and the women of abstract impressionism.

He’s been called Colorado’s most important artist. Clark Richert was an abstract expressionist whose colorful paintings of complex geometric shapes and intricate patterns were highly regarded around ...

Claude Monet cast a long shadow over 20th-century art after he died in 1926. Indeed, his impact still lives in the paintings of a contemporary such as the octogenarian Larry Poons. They continue the ...

TWICE during his long (86 years) lifetime, Pioneer Impressionist Claude Monet had to face the jeers and catcalls of critics. The first time was when his painting, Impression: Sunrise, appeared at the ...

COBDEN— A reception for abstract painter Lisa Hicks is set for noon to 5 p.m. Sunday, July 21, in Rustle Hill Winery. The abstract impressionism paintings by Hicks are currently on display at Rustle ...

In 1955, Alfred Barr brought one of Monet’s large panels of Water Lilies (W1992) into the collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York, at a time when these great "decorations", still in the ...

Berthe Morisot's 1880 oil-on-canvas painting "Winter" is among the highlights of “The Impressionist Revolution from Monet to Matisse,” which continues through Nov. 3 at the Dallas Museum of Art. Chad ...

The 15 April 1874 has a good claim to be the founding moment of modern art. A group of 31 artists, who'd often been rejected by the official Paris Salon, had decided to stage their own show at 35 ...