A behind-the-scenes look at an abstract painting in progress, showing evolving textures, color layering, and brushwork as the ...

The mind processes abstract art and figurative art very differently, and the experience of viewing one or the other can change the way you think, a new study shows. Our minds process events and ...

How do people see images? It’s a deceptively simple question that’s been historically difficult to study. But over the past five years, eye-tracking hardware startups have made it easier and cheaper ...

It is hard to tell if abstract painting actually got worse [after the 1960s], if it merely stagnated, or if it simply looked bad in comparison to the hopes its own accomplishments had raised. —Frank ...

Great abstract painters like Pollock and Monet lose themselves in colour, sensation and memory to show that reality is subjective Abstract art is a kind of miracle. How can a painting that is just a ...

The primary authors of this post are Dirk B. Walther (University of Toronto) and Claudia Damiano (KU Leuven) Have you ever stood before an abstract painting, feeling a surge of emotion but struggling ...

A retrospective celebrating the 110th anniversary of Yu Young-kuk (1916–2002), a pioneer of Korean abstract painting, has ...

Abstract art often poses a challenge for many viewers due to its lack of connection to the physical world. Like other modernist art forms, it raises questions about how we understand and appreciate ...

FOR half a century art critics have undertaken to address not a sophisticated minority like the readers of literary magazines, but the mass of unbelievers to whom twentieth-century art is a mystery or ...

If you've been looking for an excuse to visit the Guggenheim and you're an abstract art fan, here it is! The famous Fifth Avenue museum is exhibiting Wassily Kandinsky's work. Kandinsky was a ...