The first names that come to mind in Abstract Expressionism—Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning, and the like—may all be men, but women artists also played a crucial role in the internationally-renown ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. The abstract expressionists did not hurt for hubris. "It is one of the ...

George Morrison (Grand Portage Chippewa), "The Red Sky" (1955), oil on canvas; Tweed Museum of Art, University of Minnesota Duluth (© George Morrison Estate, unless otherwise noted) The landmark ...

“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 ...

"Expressionist" is one of those handy terms that we critics use rather promiscuously. Historically, it was coined by a French painter in 1901 to suggest an alternative to impressionism. Later it was ...

Lacma's latest show brings together over 40 artists to connect the French post-impressionists and their German peers At the turn of the last century, writers and artists looked inwards, and in many ...

The art movement was considered "diseased" until Essen's Folkwang Museum rallied to the cause, buying and displaying the novel works. A new exhibition at Folkwang looks back at expressionism's early ...

Tytus Czyżewski, Akt z kotem (Nude with a Cat), 1920, oil on canvas, 76 x 96 cm, from the collection of the National Museum in Warsaw, photo: NMW Works by young artists shown at the above mentioned ...