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 ...

A mathematical method borrowed from topology can reveal structural properties of visual art that correspond to how people ...

This fun and easy chalk drawing is the perfect way for beginners to experiment with a new material! Use our easy chalk tutorial to start making cool abstract art today. I love using chalk pastels with ...

Mathematicians have calculated a “golden rule” for abstract art that famous artists tend to follow when they compose their ...

This type of art often seems confusing or even random to the average viewer. Abstract art has a bad reputation. For many ...

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 ...

With the return of sunlit evenings, warmer days and sprouting gardens, now is the perfect time for budding artists to celebrate the signs of spring through art. The new season brings about ...

Known for his bold and vivid yet composed depictions of nature -- especially mountains as a portrait of the inner mind -- Yoo ...

The oldest known abstract drawing has been found in South Africa's Blombos Cave -- on the face of a flake of siliceous rock retrieved from archaeological strata dated to 73,000 years before the ...

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 ...