Have you ever looked at an abstract painting and wondered what the artist was thinking? A splash of color on a canvas can ...

This month, throughout the spring, and continuing all year at museums across America, great women abstract artists of today, and their predecessors, receive a hard earned spotlight. Women have never ...

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. The records of the American Abstract Artists measure 1.6 linear feet and date from 1936 through 1983. The records document the founding of the ...

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 ...

Adeola Davies-Aiyeloja took a winding and intuitive path to realizing her vision as an artist—from early enjoyment to a self-taught discipline and years as an educator, to a practice built on ...

This article is part of a series of interviews by Folasade Ologundudu exploring the evolving conversation about abstract art among Black artists across different generations. With a career spanning ...

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 ...

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 ...

A team of researchers at Columbia University has found that abstract art tends to evoke a more abstract mindset than does representational art. In their paper published in Proceedings of the National ...