African river stones are becoming increasingly popular among artists for their unique textures and colors. These stones, which are naturally shaped by water over the years, provide a distinct medium ...

Adopting uncommon materials like latex foam and wire rope, these artists, who were often overlooked, are gaining new attention. By Nazanin Lankarani As a graduate student of sculpture in the 1970s, ...

Some artists — young and old alike — just don’t like realistic drawing. The task of portraying something exactly as it appears in real life can be daunting, and many find the process frustrating. For ...

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 ...

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 ...

On July 24, 1997, architect I. M. Pei shared his thoughts on the relationship between sculpture and scale, including why abstract sculpture has no limit to scale compared to the lifelike elements of ...

Outside avant-garde artistic circles, the creation of The Abstract Group, in Pittsburgh, in late 1944, was greeted with something less than fanfare. In a contemporaneous installment of his column ...

Commuters along Speer Boulevard in downtown Denver will notice something different. Gerald Cross' 1975 untitled geometric sculpture consisting of orange-painted steel and blue plexiglass has returned ...

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 ...

The show revisits the contributions of 32 visionary artists who helped expand the language of Abstract Expressionism beyond ...