"People often think abstract art is easy - it is not. It relies on your innate creativity which is often buried deep inside us with no previous outlet in which it could be released. It requires a ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

In his preface to Abstract Art: A Global History—arriving this month from Thames & Hudson—Joseph Low (“Pepe”) Karmel, a professor of art history at New York University, writes that the goal of the ...

It's a busy art week, and that's news worth repeating. "Repetition," an exhibition of painting and ceramics by Heather Patterson and KyoungHwa Oh, is on display at the Colorado Mesa University Art ...