“At first glance the irregular shapes and geometric patterns of abstract art could appear difficult for the human brain to interpret. Art exhibitions like this one at the Saatchi Gallery in London, ...

Researchers at Columbia’s Zuckerman Institute found that people’s brain activity varied more when viewing abstract art, as compared with representational art. This was especially true in the default ...

Abstract art has its roots in early human civilisation. Cultures across the globe have used non-figurative, but highly symbolic, decoration for centuries. While abstract art became the dominant 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 ...

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 ...

Lindsey Fox’s watercolors transform Oregon landscapes into abstract patterns of art. Lindsey Fox is a watercolor artist and painter based out of Portland Oregon. Her work features plein air paintings ...

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 ...

What if you could distill the essence of creativity into 25 distinct visual languages, each brimming with texture, rhythm, and emotion? Abstract art, with its boundless capacity for interpretation, ...

A fragment of stone found in South Africa provides the canvas for what archaeologists believe is the oldest human drawing ever found. As one of the earliest examples of artistic thinking in humans, ...