Abstract art has a bad reputation. For many people, it’s just shapes and lines, sometimes also some smears of paint thrown in ...

Walk into any contemporary gallery in Las Vegas, and you'll likely encounter a canvas splashed with colors that seem to defy logic. No recognizable shapes. No obvious subject. Just pure, raw visual ...

At first glance, you might think the green blob with a single eye and jagged teeth is a child’s rendition of the monster under the bed. The placard underneath the 1947 oil canvas reads: Dwarf by ...

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 ...

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 ...

When does a squiggly line cease to become a squiggly line and become abstract art? According to a new arts group in St George’s in doesn’t really matter. Paul Doughty and other local artists will ...

Does abstract art turn you off, disturb your preconceived ideas about painting or send you running out of a gallery confused? Take heart, for you are not alone in the large world of viewers who expect ...

The process of understanding abstract art is like learning how to swim by being thrown into the deep end. The experience forces a way of thinking and seeing that isn’t natural for most people. The ...

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 ...