And so de Kooning's big challenge was how to use the power of paint to again give some meaning to creating the image of a human figure on a canvas. And if what you see on the canvas before you has the ...

Painter, printmaker, watercolorist. First trained as a woodcarver; later studied painting and developed style involving intense color and thick, gestural impasto. Changed name to Nolde, his birthplace ...

MARINA ABRAMOVIĆ: When we was Australian desert and living with the Aborigines, we was looking to this report of astronauts who said that only construction who can be seen from moon, human-made, is ...

Artist, Gabriel Orozco: I was storing my works small pieces and objects and stuff in shoeboxes, and you know, recycling a shoebox to store things is a very common thing, I guess. So, when I was ...

Jack Whitten: I was interested in wood carving, because I had been introduced to African sculpture. In my naive mind, I figured, well, if I start wood carving, getting my hands on those shapes, maybe ...

Immerse yourself in ideas and see your world in new ways through art. In MoMA’s free Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) on Coursera, you will hear directly from artists and designers, look closely at ...

Painter, draftsman, printmaker known for pointed political satire and social criticism. Early work, from about 1914 to 1917, shows influence of Expressionism and Futurism, as well as caricature.

The result was Matisse’s first and only self-contained, site-specific cut-out. With its reduction of forms, its dynamic deployment of positives and negatives, and its lateral expansion across the ...

Luis Perez-Oramas: In 1968, Lygia Clark produced a sensorial object that she called Óculos – Eyes. Glenn Lowry: Óculos consists of goggles that can be worn and experienced either by one person alone, ...

MoMA | German Expressionism Styles: BrückePrintmaking and drawing were integral to the Brücke artists’ practice. The graphic techniques offered a less expensive, more immediate way of developing their ...

Pinning Matisse used pins (probably sewing pins), thumb tacks, and thin nails to secure the cut forms; for small formats the artist would work on a board while sitting in a chair or in bed. As ...

Frida Kahlo began to paint in 1925, while recovering from a near-fatal bus accident that devastated her body and marked the beginning of lifelong physical ordeals. Over the next three decades, she ...