The Debrief

A Hidden Pattern in Famous Abstract Art Reveals a Secret Mathematical “Golden Rule” Linked to Human Perception

A new study reveals that famous abstract art may follow hidden mathematical patterns linked to human perception.
The Washington Post

From natural and political disaster, she became one of America’s great artists

Miyoko Ito survived an earthquake, incarceration and illness. Her transporting paintings defied ideas about abstract art. By the time she painted this mysterious work in 1975, Miyoko Ito — the Chicago ...
Los Angeles Times

How a group of abstract painters in New Mexico — and the U.S. government — changed modern art

Isolated in the rural American Southwest and navigating the harsh realities of poverty in the 1930s, a small group of artists made sublime abstract art that sought to intuitively connect viewers to a ...
The Lantern

The Abstract Athlete art exhibition highlights former athletes, veterans turned artists

Former Ohio State football player Percy King first learned his love of art in elementary school, but when football forced him into a busy schedule, his artistic endeavors were put on the back burner.
insider.si.edu

American Abstract Artists records

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. The records of the American Abstract Artists measure 1.6 linear feet and date from 1936 through 1983. The records document the founding of the ...
CNN

How Ethiopian-born abstract artist Julie Mehretu is helping African artists

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The Atlantic

Abstract Art and the Critics

FOR half a century art critics have undertaken to address not a sophisticated minority like the readers of literary magazines, but the mass of unbelievers to whom twentieth-century art is a mystery or ...