A new exhibition at Artlink invites gallery visitors to spend time with abstract art, explore their reactions and get a look ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

When looking at an abstract work of art, ask yourself what it makes you feel rather than what it might represent, suggests ...

Women artists have been fighting continually for their rights. For equality, for gallery representation and institutional ...

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 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 ...

Researchers at Columbia’s Zuckerman Institute found that people’s brain activity varied more when viewing abstract art, as compared with representational art. This was especially true in the default ...