Willem de Kooning is best known for his frenetic, abstract canvases, but another aspect of his practice has long escaped attention: his drawings. A forthcoming exhibition at the Art Institute of ...

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 ...

Smudging. Tracing. Blotting. Collaging. Erasing. Swishing. Showing himself to be one of the great draftsmen of the 20th century, famed abstract expressionist Willem de Kooning employed all these ...

If Reinhardt’s most visible late work hovers near invisibility, what do we see at the beginning? Following from the image of Reinhardt as the creator of the “ultimate” painting, we might imagine a ...

The primary authors of this post are Dirk B. Walther (University of Toronto) and Claudia Damiano (KU Leuven) Have you ever stood before an abstract painting, feeling a surge of emotion but struggling ...

At five months old, John Christian Caldeira Weibull was already making pictures, although nobody could have known where those first marks would lead. Given an LED drawing tablet by his parents in ...

Canvases stand on easels outside a quiet building in Nairobi, catching the afternoon light.On one canvas, bold white lines slice the surface into triangles and narrow strips, and inside each shape a ...