In March 1979, he wrote a piece for the Observer newspaper protesting against the Tate Gallery’s bias for abstraction, insisting that although “we know, in fact, that art can be full of joy”, the ...

Raised in Paris, Texas, Hancock earned his BFA from Texas A&M University, Commerce, and his MFA from the Tyler School of Art at Temple University ... Influenced by the history of painting, especially ...

Oliver Lee Jackson has always been wary of politics. That is not to say that the artist, who was born in St. Louis, Missouri in 1935, at a time when very few African-American working-class men made ...

That is not to say that the artist, who was born in St. Louis, Missouri in 1935, at a time when very few African-American working-class men made their way to art school, has not been involved in ...

Following his throat cancer diagnosis in 2015, his art became both a refuge and a revelation. Working in a style that mixed abstract expressionism with symbolic collage, he created pieces that felt ...

“So the Pollock-Krasner foundation is based in New York and it was established from the generosity and support of abstract expressionist Lee Krasner, who happened to be married to another famous ...

At the time, French artists like Victor Vasarely and Bernard Buffet were prized by U.S. collectors, but shifting tastes soon favored Abstract Expressionism, Pop Art, Minimalism, and Conceptual art.

That movement represents an art historical milestone: the first art movement to originate solely from the United States. Unsurprisingly, Abstract Expressionism ... of Jackson Pollock and his ...