Drawing from observation is a collaboration. In the act of drawing, you are participating in a breathing landscape, the curves of a human body, the stillness of an object, the lines of a building and ...

Alyse Rosner, "A Quieter Battle" (2021), wax and acrylic on raw canvas, signed and dated in graphite on the verso, 78 x 202 inches (photo credit: Tom Powel Imaging, courtesy Rick Wester Fine Art) “A ...

A central figure among the abstract expressionists who emerged in New York in the late 1940s, Mark Rothko brought a new sense of drama into abstract art. In his large floating rectangles of color, ...

“You can talk about light, scale, depth, beauty, color, shape, form, perspective,” the great mid-century abstract painter Helen Frankenthaler once said, “but it’s no formula of those things that make ...

Walk into any contemporary gallery in Las Vegas, and you'll likely encounter a canvas splashed with colors that seem to defy logic. No recognizable shapes. No obvious subject. Just pure, raw visual ...

It is hard to tell if abstract painting actually got worse [after the 1960s], if it merely stagnated, or if it simply looked bad in comparison to the hopes its own accomplishments had raised. —Frank ...

Some artists — young and old alike — just don’t like realistic drawing. The task of portraying something exactly as it appears in real life can be daunting, and many find the process frustrating. For ...