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 ...

A new study out of Columbia University suggests that abstract art can literally change your state of mind.

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 ...

When you consider art, it might initially appear as a luxury rather than a necessity for those earnestly engaged in life. However, delving deeper into the influence of art on our lives uncovers 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 ...

HYDERABAD: Some art aficionados gravitate towards Rembrandt and Frida Kahlo, while others sing praises for Vincent Van Gogh and Pablo Picasso. Whoever the artist and whatever the style, one thing is ...

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 ...

Abstract art can make you look at the world in a whole new way. Associated with artists like Paul Cezanne, Man Ray and Picasso, this style is based around implication — creating images with shapes, ...