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

He began snapping up overlooked masterpieces by the likes of Yvonne Thomas, Sonia Gechtoff, Deborah Remington, and Ethel Schwabacher. These were works priced in the tens or hundreds of thousands, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Join Nick Bultman as he takes you on an exhilarating journey through the world of abstract art. In "Art in Action: Speed Painting with Nick Bultman," watch as he masterfully blends action painting ...

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 ...

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 ...

If you’re not particularly gifted in the art department, it can be hard enough to draw with a pencil and paper, let alone on a canvas as tiny as your nail bed. That’s why abstract nail art is so great ...

There is more than a little truth in the cliche that the average abstract painting could be reproduced by randomly spraying a canvas with paint, or by taking some hyperactive child's fingerpainting ...

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 ...

Mary Mathews has come a long way since her first log cabin crazy quilt in 25 years. She started improvising and learned to see her art with a different lens. Duluth abstract quilter Mary Mathews ...