Explore realistic and abstract drawing techniques for beginners while learning to experiment with shapes, textures, shading, ...

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 ...

On the 10th anniversary of its opening, the National Museum of African American History and Culture highlights artists who didn't shirk from a critique of power.

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 ...

John Pai, “Involution” (1974), welded steel, 40 1/6 by 40 1/6 by 40 1/6 inches (all images courtesy of the artist) FAIRFIELD, Connecticut — The last time John Pai had a solo show of his sculptures in ...

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 ...

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 ...

The world of abstract art is a mystery to me, as I imagine it is for most people. When you’re talking about colorful splotches on a canvas, what invisible committee decides that one person’s talent ...