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 ...

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.

The parallels are uncanny: two abstract impressionist painters who lived more or less during the same time, whose work developed along similar lines, both with strong ties to Colorado. One was Vance ...

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.

It isn’t easy to believe that Impressionist art, now ubiquitous, was ever considered revolutionary. Claude Monet’s “Water ...

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 ...

An abstract painting of a woman hangs in the downstairs section of the Red Room Lounge (2736 Virginia), currently River Oaks's trendiest nightspot. This seems wildly appropriate. Abstractionism sounds ...

It's been a good week for brainy, idiosyncratic concerts in Washington. On Saturday, pianist Pierre-Laurent Aimard made the disparate works of Berg, Liszt, Debussy and Ligeti seem part of the same ...