The back story is this: By the mid-1960s, when abstract painting had lost much of its avant-garde thrust, sculpture acquired a new importance. But it wasn’t a return of cold, hard, carved stone ...

The titans of Abstract Expressionism are on view now at The Royal Academy of Arts in London. It’s a massive show comprising 163 works by 30 painters, sculptors, and photographers, and will likely go ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Outstanding, astounding, filled with thrills but also with melancholy, Abstract Expressionism at the Royal Academy is ...

25 x 19.6 in. (63.5 x 49.8 cm.) A stunning and uncommon 1960s Abstract Expressionist screenprint by the renowned American artist Kimber Smith, who spent many years living and working in Europe.

LONDON — In 2016–17, the Royal Academy mounted a blockbuster Abstract Expressionism show featuring many of the heavy hitters long recognized by art history: Pollock, Rothko, Still, de Kooning, etc.

The diversity of its very loosely allied participants means that the labelling is just a convenient handle: here are midwesterners, westerners, city boys, immigrants, working class to upper class ...

“Scarred by war, schooled in surrealism, hip to psychotherapy,” the painters known as the abstract expressionists took the art world by storm in the 1950s, said Barbara Hoffman in the New York Post. A ...

Introduction -- Background and early work -- The question of a heritage -- The ideographic picture -- The process of painting -- Being and field -- The later work -- After abstract expressionism ...