When Alexander Calder was 11, he made his parents two small animal figurines for Christmas: a dog and a duck, both sculpted ...

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 ...

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 ...

WAUKESHA, Wis. (CBS 58) -- Some people search far and wide, look inward and outward but still never quite find their purpose in life. But for Josseline Castillo, the answer was right there in front of ...

Get caught up in the abstract artwork of artist Julie Evans. "I feel like there's something illusionistic about the work." Get caught up in the abstract artwork of artist Julie Evans. Matt Rogowicz ...

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 ...

A recent gallery exhibition on abstract art and self-taught artists proposes a new story for the rise of abstraction. In the ...

Abstract painting is one of the most freeing art forms, allowing you to explore colors, shapes, and textures without the pressure of realism. Beginners can start with simple tools like acrylics, ...

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 ...

This December, Sotheby’s will auction off the estate of Barbara Sinatra, wife to Frank Sinatra, with a host of artwork, jewelry, furniture, and memorabilia. The sale, titled for Barbara’s memoir Lady ...