Mathematicians have calculated a “golden rule” for abstract art that famous artists tend to follow when they compose their ...

This type of art often seems confusing or even random to the average viewer. Abstract art has a bad reputation. For many ...

Known for his bold and vivid yet composed depictions of nature -- especially mountains as a portrait of the inner mind -- Yoo ...

A mathematical method borrowed from topology can reveal structural properties of visual art that correspond to how people ...

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 ...

Swedish artist, now regarded as predecessor to Kandinsky and Mondrian, died thinking world was not ready for her work The Swedish artist Hilma af Klint died believing the world was not ready for the ...

New York’s spring auctions are expected to fetch at least $1.7 billion amid redoubled collector confidence in art values.

A new exhibition at the Fondation Louis Vuitton in Paris spotlights 300 of the sculptor's groundbreaking kinetic artworks, large-scale public sculptures, paintings, drawings and wire portraits ...

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 ...

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 ...