Gillian Ayres, one of Britain's leading abstract painters of the last 60 years ... She never painted portraits or landscapes. "Shapes. Spaces. It's the way I see the world," she once said.

And with those techniques and learning how to mix colors, I kind of started moving into painting. I did abstract at first, ...

Art critic Barry Schwabsky’s new book, Landscape Painting Now ... a revealing link between Abstract Expressionist painters like Mark Rothko and Clyfford Still and 19 th century Romantics.

Timeline of key artists and works of art who inspired and were involved in the development of the abstract art movement.