The greatest discoveries in art history, as in so many fields, tend to come from those working outside the box. Interdisciplinary studies break new ground because those steadfastly lashed to a ...

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 ...

Walk into any contemporary gallery in Las Vegas, and you'll likely encounter a canvas splashed with colors that seem to defy logic. No recognizable shapes. No obvious subject. Just pure, raw visual ...

In his highly influential 1911 thesis titled “Concerning the Spiritual in Art,” Russian painter Wassily Kandinsky muses about the two-fold importance of color choice. The artist must, according to ...

Art is subjective. No one person can look at one piece and interpret it the same as another. Each and every brush stroke, line and dot holds meaning. And yet, despite that powerful message, I have a ...

SIOUX CITY (KTIV) - The Sioux City Art Center held family art lessons Saturday in the Gilchrist Learning Center on Saturday, Dec. 31. Families learned about abstract art, creating a New Year’s Ball ...

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 ...

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 ...