Abstract art often gets an undeserved bad rap. Many people famously dismissed Jackson Pollock‘s signature drip paintings in the 1950s, for instance, as being something that a trained chimpanzee could ...

Nanette Carter may have been making abstract art since the 1970s, but her work has never felt more urgent. Carter's elegant, off-kilter forms articulate the alienating experience of life in the thick ...

“At first glance the irregular shapes and geometric patterns of abstract art could appear difficult for the human brain to interpret. Art exhibitions like this one at the Saatchi Gallery in London, ...

DENVER — The story goes like this. It is 1950. Virginia-born painter Judith Godwin learns that dancer and choreographer Martha Graham will be in the region and all Godwin can think about is her desire ...

Abstract art has its roots in early human civilisation. Cultures across the globe have used non-figurative, but highly symbolic, decoration for centuries. While abstract art became the dominant art ...

The greatest discoveries in art history, as in so many fields, tend to come from those working outside the box. Interdisciplinary studies break new ground because those steadfastly lashed to a ...

The world of abstract art is a mystery to me, as I imagine it is for most people. When you’re talking about colorful splotches on a canvas, what invisible committee decides that one person’s talent ...

It has been written about Dyani White Hawk (Sičáŋǧu Lakota, b. 1976) that she honors Lakota culture while expanding its expression through new art forms and innovations. Better stated, she honors ...

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 ...

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 ...