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Charles Karsten, Piet Mondrian in his Paris studio with Lozenge Composition with Four Yellow Lines (1933) and Composition with Double Lines and Yellow (1934), October 1933. Collection RKD, Netherlands Institute for Art History via artnet

Margaret Allen

Piet Mondrian and the Philosophy of Neo-Plasticism

Neo-Plasticism shaped modern abstraction through balance and order as Piet Mondrian developed a universal visual system rooted in balance and order.

Francis Bacon’s 7 Reece Mews Studio, London, 1998. Photographed by Perry Ogden, © The Estate of Francis Bacon. All rights reserved, DACS via World of Interiors

Eleanor Brooks

The Art of Francis Bacon’s Infamous Chaotic Studio

Francis Bacon’s studio functioned as an active creative system, shaping how images formed, how memory surfaced, and how painting unfolded across decades.

Edward Hopper, Two Comedians, 1966 via Sotheby's

Nathan Cole

Edward Hopper’s Lesser-Known Paintings and Inne...

Edward Hopper’s lesser-known paintings reveal how space, light, and restraint shape emotional awareness and interior experience in modern American art.

Shigeo Otake, Mushroom Nirvana, 2019 via Hive Center for Contemporary Art

Rebecca Levenson

Ten Contemporary Paintings That Shaped the Last...

These ten paintings from the last ten years embrace allegory, interiority, and symbolic figuration to address memory, power, intimacy, and belief.

Henri Matisse, Dance II, 1910 via WikiArt/Public Domain

Louisa Penrose

If You Love Dance, You’ll Love These Famous Pai...

These key paintings from modern art history depict dance as discipline, abstraction, expression, and social ritual through the moving body.

Judit Reigl, Guano (Palisade), 1958, © Judit Reigl / ADAGP, Paris, via The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Taylor Grant

Judit Reigl and the Discipline of Gestural Pain...

Judit Reigl transformed gestural painting through repetition, discipline, and bodily rigor, showing how sustained movement builds structure and visual clarity.

René Magritte, Les grâces naturelles, c. 1961 © René Magritte via Christie's

Arthur Kingsley

Magritte’s Leaf Birds and the Logic of Transfor...

Magritte’s privately collected leaf-bird works reveal how this quiet motif shaped his thinking on metamorphosis, perception, form, and visual logic.

Imogen Cunningham, Ruth Asawa, 1957. Image © 2024 Imogen Cunningham Trust. All Rights Reserved. Art © 2024 Estate of Imogen Cunningham / 2024 Ruth Asawa Lanier, Inc. / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Courtesy David Zwirner via Sotheby's

Jack Lowry

When Sculpture Entered Everyday Life in Postwar...

Postwar sculpture shifted toward lived space, material awareness, and civic presence through the work of Ruth Asawa and Isamu Noguchi.

Florine Stettheimer, Asbury Park South, 1920 via Artforum

Margaret Allen

Florine Stettheimer and the Visual Language of ...

Florine Stettheimer developed a distinct visual language to portray modern American society through ritual, spectacle, and self-authorship.

Why Artists Rarely Control Their Own Legacy After Death

Samuel Reed

Why Artists Rarely Control Their Own Legacy Aft...

Artists often shape their work but lose authority over how it is remembered. Estates, museums, and markets play a defining role in legacy.