From doodles to tattoos, Soraya Saghbini’s abstract line art fits on a multitude of mediums. The third-year biochemistry student said she launched her Instagram page @soosartsyshit and website to sell ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

This video demonstrates how to create DIY abstract line art featuring women's faces, offering a fresh approach to artistic portraiture. Follow along as basic lines are transformed into striking and ...

There is more than a little truth in the cliche that the average abstract painting could be reproduced by randomly spraying a canvas with paint, or by taking some hyperactive child's fingerpainting ...

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 ...