Often today in art galleries and hotels or even in wall art one would find the rise of abstract art. While at first glance these are just an amalgamation of colours spread over the canvas without any ...

For me, it’s raw and primal, like peering directly into an artist’s soul to explore the jumbled mess of humanity inside. It’s a powerful, emotional, awe-inspiring journey. But there’s far more to ...

Does abstract art truly evoke different cognitive states than figurative art? This was the driving question behind a new study. Across three experiments, researchers showed that abstract paintings ...

While religious art often features recognizable figures and scenes, abstract art, by its very nature, eschews the literal. Yet, within the realm of non-representational forms, colors, and textures ...

In this essay I focus on the question of why we are attracted to abstract art (perhaps more accurately, non-representational or object-free art). After elaborating on the processing of visual art in ...

In a world inundated with literal messaging and constant definition, abstract art stands as a silent but powerful counterpoint. It doesn’t tell us what to see or feel; instead, it invites us to ...

Great abstract painters like Pollock and Monet lose themselves in colour, sensation and memory to show that reality is subjective Abstract art is a kind of miracle. How can a painting that is just a ...

Mondrian’s bold grids, Malevich’s Black Square, Jenny Holzer’s top secret redacted government documents ... a new exhibition celebrates the point and edge of 100 years of abstraction Last year Tate ...

Abstract art makes no reference to the real world, instead drawing attention to its status as an art object – “art for art’s sake”, as some might say. But it can take a huge variety of forms, from ...

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 ...