After five decades of working with drawing, printmaking, painting and mixed media, artist Kanchan Chander is now turning to abstraction, exploring architectural forms, geometry and space while ...

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 ...

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 ...

Here is another way to look at abstract or non-representational art. . . .Most of us appreciate the beauty of nature. Most of us appreciate art that makes us aware. perhaps in a heightened way, the ...

On the 10th anniversary of its opening, the National Museum of African American History and Culture highlights artists who ...

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When people say, with a twinge of frustration, that they “don’t get modern art”, they’re probably referring to abstract work. Jackson Pollock’s splotches, Piet Mondrian’s geometrics, SH Raza’s Bindu, ...

There’s no quicker way to whip up a pointless debate than to discuss abstract art. Does it defy and profoundly challenge our preconceived notions of what art can be…or is it just some crap any second ...

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Abstract art has become the defining visual statement in Mediterranean homes, replacing ornamental tradition with bold, expressive compositions that feel entirely at ease against whitewashed walls and ...

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 ...