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 ...

By demystifying the emotional language of abstract art, this research has the potential to open up new opportunities for interdisciplinary collaborations and applications in the real word ...

Before artists like Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning shot to fame, Janet Sobel was gaining ground as an important abstract painter — but largely disappeared from the art world.

In the spirit of melding form and subject, “Abstract: The Art of Design” is one of the most dazzling-looking shows anywhere on TV. The Netflix documentary series, executive produced by Morgan ...

Art museums in Los Angeles currently overflow with first-rate exhibitions. An unusually strong array of well-organized solo and thematic shows covering a variety of art has made the first months ...

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Rock art from 73,000 years ago shows abstract appeal. Credit: Craig Foster. If a picture tells a thousand words, a cross-hatched design drawn on a fragment of rock some 73,000 years ago could ...

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 for ...

A selection of 79 drawings from the collection recasts the most celebrated decade in American art as less American. By Roberta Smith As exhibitions go, “Degree Zero: Drawing at Midcentury” at ...

The birth of modern physics a century ago fired artistic as well as scientific imaginations. This can be seen in the Pompidou Centre's current exhibition of abstract art, covering Dutch painter ...