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What makes a tree a tree? Or rather, why can we recognize trees in even quite abstract depictions when they are so varied in nature? Researchers have found a clue in the branches, and used math to ...

Trees depicted in the artwork of famous painters like Leonardo da Vinci and Piet Mondrian follow the math behind their branching pattern in nature, a new study says. This hidden math in some abstract ...

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 ...

Kandinsky took up painting by chance and rather late in life, when he was already 30 years old and a successful lawyer. Wassily Kandinsky (1866–1944) is one of Russia’s most famous artists and the ...

Great abstract painters like Pollock and Monet lose themselves in colour, sensation and memory to show that reality is subjective Abstract art is a kind of miracle. How can a painting that is just a ...

ECSTASY. Joy. Sadness. Despair. The sweeping lines and blocks of colour in abstract art prompt us to respond emotionally in ways that we do not really understand. Now computers are getting in on the ...

“We must not be afraid of this word ‘abstract.’ All art is primarily abstract.” Korean art historian Kim Boggi quoted British art historian and philosopher Herbert Read (1893-1968) in the introduction ...