What can a flower — or a painting ... art and modern life. An abstract, geometric picture — black lines crossing at right angles against a white background, with scattered fields of blue, red, ...

“Quintessential works by Piet Mondrian rarely come to auction as many are housed in the most prestigious museum collections around the world,” Julian Dawes, Sotheby’s head of impressionist ...

Zao is known for combining classical Chinese painting techniques with the abstract influences of Western modernism. Sunday’s auction result “crowns (him as the) king of Asian oil painters ...

The TV serial Red Sorghum hit China's screens recently ... specially painted four oil paintings for the show's producer, Shandong Satellite, as a celebration for the series' broadcast as well ...

In his last completed oil, “Large Red Interior” (1948), paintings, flowers, furniture, and pets are all pressed against the same vermilion plane, as if to reiterate that the true world he ...

A canvas by Mark Rothko sold for $45 million and an American flag painting ... s “No. 21 (Red, Brown, Black and Orange)” dates from 1953 and once belonged to the oil magnate Pierre ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. In a photograph taken in Ed Clark’s Louisiana studio in 1978, the artist stands with balletic poise in ...

The collection combines literary themes and artistic techniques in abstract paintings that pull on different parts of the mind and memory. Britton is an associate professor of art at UGA who ...

However, artist Wassily Kandinsky feels that abstract art, what people ... in the case of a painting, for example, why a blue blob would evoke sadness, whereas some red squiggles would evoke ...