Abstract art often gets an undeserved bad rap. Many people famously dismissed Jackson Pollock‘s signature drip paintings in the 1950s, for instance, as being something that a trained chimpanzee could ...

The definition of abstract art has no one clear consensus, although expert commentary has weighed in for centuries, from Plato to Pablo Picasso. Some say it began with Stone Age Paleolithic cave art ...

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 ...

The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth will host the first major retrospective in more than 25 years of one of America’s best-known abstract expressionist painters, Robert Motherwell. The museum has more ...

Jonathan G. Keller's art is abstract, but the message behind his bright, colorful, almost hypnotic paintings is anything but. "I like people to take away growth, whether it be spiritual growth or ...

With the return of sunlit evenings, warmer days and sprouting gardens, now is the perfect time for budding artists to celebrate the signs of spring through art. The new season brings about ...

Through his scribbles, wiggles and broad brush strokes, Suhas Shilker an abstract artist for over 30 years, has continuously captured the imagination of viewers who find meaning in the bold reds and ...

Researchers studying people's brain activity when looking at abstract art have revealed why we interpret blobs of paint on canvas so differently. When you look at an abstract painting, study it in a ...

WILLIAMSTOWN — Abstract art can be off-putting. Visiting “Make It New: Abstract Painting From the National Gallery of Art, 1950-1975” in the new Clark Center exhibition space at the Clark Art ...

Early in the 1990s, when Sheila Makhijani was painting with an orange blob of paint on white ground, people interpreted it as spirituality in her work. The experience unnerved Makhijani so much that ...