“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, ...

Sri-Lankan-British artist and designer Cecil Balmond once said, "The abstract has no emotional content ... the abstract is more powerful the more abstract it is." Abstract art plays with the ...

The longest-running independent art fair in the city is scheduled to take place at the Los Angeles Convention Center's West ...

A survey at the Walker Art Center celebrates the interdisciplinary artist Dyani White Hawk, whose works are grounded in the ...

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 ...

I’m sitting in on a Zentangle workshop at St John of God Hospital in Stillorgan, south Dublin. The participants – men and women of all ages – sit at two tables with pencils and black markers at the ...

Who invented modern art? Or, more specifically, abstract art? We all know the answer. It was the free-thinking American and European painters of the mid-20th century, heroes like Mark Rothko, Jackson ...

Abstract patterns carved on bone fragments discovered in China could be the oldest art ever made, dating back to between 105,000 and 125,000 years ago. The marks on two bones were found at a site in ...

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 ...