There's something very powerful that happens when people look at the abstract paintings of Mark Rothko, says art historian Susie Hodge. As they observe his technique and color — perhaps two shades of ...

The brevity of an abstract belies its importance to a manuscript. It’s what catches a reader’s attention and helps them to decide whether a paper is relevant. Yet ...

Realistic artwork often appears detailed and literal on the surface, but beneath that finish lies a framework built from ...

There's something very powerful that happens when people look at the abstract paintings of Mark Rothko, says art historian Susie Hodge. As they observe his technique and color — perhaps two shades of ...

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 ...

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 ...

In 1961, Piero Manzoni created his most famous art work—ninety small, sealed tins, titled “Artist’s Shit.” Its creation was said to be prompted by Manzoni’s father, who owned a canning factory, ...

Full disclosure: Several years ago, I took a Big Five Personality Test for my study with Natalie Denburg, Ph.D. at the University of Iowa, regarding collector personalities. I scored high on openness.

Researchers studying people's brain activity when looking at abstract art have revealed why we interpret blobs of paint on canvas so differently. When you look at an abstract painting, study it in a ...

How long will the naked eye be able to spot the difference between images made by generative artificial intelligence and art created by humans? Ari Melenciano, an artist who works at Google's Creative ...