When L.A. native Charlie Edmiston went to art school to study painting, he found the emphasis on theory a little stifling. His current style — geometric abstract fine art — looks like an equal and ...

Are you familiar with the term "abstract landscapes?" Hmm. Sounds like an oxymoron, you say? That's what Shirley Gisi thinks, too, yet she admires some oil paintings of the Southwest that are referred ...

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 ...

It is hard to tell if abstract painting actually got worse [after the 1960s], if it merely stagnated, or if it simply looked bad in comparison to the hopes its own accomplishments had raised. —Frank ...