Famous works of abstract art achieve popularity by using shapes that resonate with the neural mechanisms in the brain linked to visual information, a psychologist has discovered. Famous works of ...

Let’s start with one of art history’s great quotations, attributed to René Magritte: “A face isn’t a face unless it’s facing you.” I’ll get back to you on that, but first, a brief foray into Bosnian ...

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“You can talk about light, scale, depth, beauty, color, shape, form, perspective,” the great mid-century abstract painter Helen Frankenthaler once said, “but it’s no formula of those things that make ...

Klein resident Charlene Callahan never creates two pieces of art that look alike. When forming her fused glass artwork, Callahan said she designs each layer of glass before heating them together. "I ...

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 ...

Walking into Ethan Diehl’s studio apartment felt a bit like walking onto a movie set of how an artist’s home should appear, so perfectly artsy, it was very nearly cliché. The door opened into a long ...

The town of Gilbert is known nationwide as one of the fastest-growing communities. And locally, as one of the most homogenous. Recently, the town’s leaders solidified their white-bread image by ...

An optical illusion reveals personality traits based on what you see first: faces suggest empathy and connection, a butterfly ...