Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This undated handout image provided by the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery shows a portrait of Jacqueline Kennedy by Andy ...

Jack Smith: Abstract Portraits (18 March - 31 August 2015) is the latest display at the National Portrait Gallery to focus on unconventional approaches to portraiture and will be the first time that ...

A new work of art is in progress for Princeton’s collections, and 25 students — and their skin tones — are representing the campus community in the abstract collection of portraits called “Synecdoche.

Recently the Benton has been holding a weekly series of 30 minute art lectures. This week’s was centered on the idea of abstract and realistic portraiture. Lead by tour guide Shoshana Levinson, an ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — When abstract expressionism was all the rage in American art in the mid-20th century, many artists thought the art of painting portraits was dead. Artist Chuck Close went so far as ...