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 ...

In this video, we'll show you how to create abstract sea waves using acrylic paint and sugar. If you're looking for a way to ...

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 ...

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Nanette Carter may have been making abstract art since the 1970s, but her work has never felt more urgent. Carter's elegant, off-kilter forms articulate the alienating experience of life in the thick ...

It feels ridiculous to say, but abstract painting has come to the Northwest Territories. Ridiculous, because its arrival is a tad late. Although abstraction has no concrete birth date, it gained ...

Gopi Gajwani’s work encompasses cheeky cartoons and graphic design. But it is his delicate abstracts that tell stories of ...

In the latter years of World War II, the New York art scene started coalescing around a group of artists including Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning, visionaries who would develop a daring new ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American Hashtags have become a standard in ...