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Spin Art Challenge | Friends Create Mesmerizing Paint Paintings

This Spin Art Challenge shows friends creating unique and colorful abstract paintings using a spinning art technique. Each ...
Hyperallergic

Abstract Paintings that Evoke Persian Gardens and a Bloody Coup

Bahar Behbahani, ‘Garden Coup,’ installation view (all images courtesy of the artist and Thomas Erben Gallery, New York) Bahar Behbahani’s incendiary photograph “Proceeding” (2007), of a woman ...
OPB

‘The Evergreen’: Celebrating artist and Portlander Mark Rothko

Mark Rothko is known for his colorful abstract paintings of stacked rectangles with billowy borders and layered textures. His art has been auctioned for up to $186 million, but he once turned down a ...
New Haven Independent

Erector Square Artist Goes Abstract

Herriot said he produced all of the art currently in his studio between June and October. Credit: MONA MAHADEVAN PHOTO Herriot’s studio, filled with colorful, abstract art of various sizes. Herriot ...
Ars Technica

Abstract art with “pseudo-profound” BS titles seen as more meaningful

Abstract art often gets an undeserved bad rap. Many people famously dismissed Jackson Pollock‘s signature drip paintings in the 1950s, for instance, as being something that a trained chimpanzee could ...