All-seeing eyes and cosmic visions dazzle in the abstract art of a woman who claimed her hand was guided by the dead, from holy saints to famous male artists The eye of God stares out of a swirling ...

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 ...

John Pai, “Involution” (1974), welded steel, 40 1/6 by 40 1/6 by 40 1/6 inches (all images courtesy of the artist) FAIRFIELD, Connecticut — The last time John Pai had a solo show of his sculptures in ...

I was intrigued, surprised, and, most of all, thoroughly convinced by Pete Schulte’s first exhibition at McKenzie Fine Art, Properties of Dust and Smoke, pt. 2 (October 30–December 21, 2019). Working ...

As deliberate as a thought, or as primal as a cry, drawing can be many things. It can describe something seen or felt, and it can be a thing in itself, without reference to the visible world. There ...

The oldest known abstract drawing has been found in South Africa's Blombos Cave -- on the face of a flake of siliceous rock retrieved from archaeological strata dated to 73,000 years before the ...

“At first glance the irregular shapes and geometric patterns of abstract art could appear difficult for the human brain to interpret. Art exhibitions like this one at the Saatchi Gallery in London, ...

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 ...