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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 ...

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 ...

Watch a couple create a colorful abstract painting using a fun spin art technique. This creative art session explores ...

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 ...

Have you ever looked at an abstract painting and wondered what the artist was thinking? A splash of color on a canvas can stir something deep or nothing at all. According to research from Duke ...

Canvases stand on easels outside a quiet building in Nairobi, catching the afternoon light.On one canvas, bold white lines slice the surface into triangles and narrow strips, and inside each shape a ...

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 ...

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 ...