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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...