Walk into any contemporary gallery in Las Vegas, and you'll likely encounter a canvas splashed with colors that seem to defy logic. No recognizable shapes. No obvious subject. Just pure, raw visual ...

Originally published: The new art--the new life. 1st Da Capo Press ed. New York : Da Capo, 1993. Also issued online. HMSG copy purchased with funds from the S. Dillon Ripley Endowment. Internationally ...

The Russian lawyer-turned-painter sought to simplify art through a deconstructive approach to painting and by visualizing his inner workings. Wassily Kandinsky ...

Perry Owens is a fabricator, artist, and game developer with a passion for surrealism. Inspired by the limitless possibilities of abstract reality, he creates art that encourages viewers to experience ...

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 ...

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 best adults are experts at feigning excitement over a toddler’s drawings. Kind, loving grown-ups know how to make a big deal about a tyke’s art so that children think they’ve made something ...

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 ...

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 ...

In his preface to Abstract Art: A Global History—arriving this month from Thames & Hudson—Joseph Low (“Pepe”) Karmel, a professor of art history at New York University, writes that the goal of the ...

Student Lily Glantz warps reality with abstract, digital elements in artwork Rising third-year civil engineering student Lily Glantz is pictured surrounded by photos of her various artworks. With her ...