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 ...

With the return of sunlit evenings, warmer days and sprouting gardens, now is the perfect time for budding artists to celebrate the signs of spring through art. The new season brings about ...

All-seeing eyes and cosmic visions dazzle in the abstract art of a woman who claimed her hand was guided by the dead, from holy saints to famous male artists The eye of God stares out of a swirling ...

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 ...

Santa Fe-based artist Victor Teng was inspired by Chinese calligraphy in his abstract drawings of figures. His new exhibition In Conversation: Works on Paper opens in the Cinematheque Lobby Gallery on ...

As deliberate as a thought, or as primal as a cry, drawing can be many things. It can describe something seen or felt, and it can be a thing in itself, without reference to the visible world. There ...

Abstract art has its roots in early human civilisation. Cultures across the globe have used non-figurative, but highly symbolic, decoration for centuries. While abstract art became the dominant art ...

A fragment of stone found in South Africa provides the canvas for what archaeologists believe is the oldest human drawing ever found. As one of the earliest examples of artistic thinking in humans, ...