Jan Cicero fell under the spell of abstract art as a teenager in La Grange in the 1950s, when she was introduced to the work of trailblazers like Jackson Pollock by an enthusiastic high school art ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Neurosis, schizophrenia and attention deficit disorders can all be predicted based on the kind of art you like, says this new study. Our mental state can affect how we perceive art, say scientists who ...