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 ...

Pete Schulte, "Untitled" (2021), graphite and ink on paper, 11 x 11 inches (all images courtesy the artist and McKenzie Fine Art) Already a member? Sign in here. We rely on readers like you to fund ...

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 ...

Santa Fe-based artist Victor Teng was inspired by Chinese calligraphy in his abstract drawings of figures. His new exhibition In Conversation: Works on Paper opens in the Cinematheque Lobby Gallery on ...

Sri-Lankan-British artist and designer Cecil Balmond once said, "The abstract has no emotional content ... the abstract is more powerful the more abstract it is." Abstract art plays with the ...

Critic Sarah Swan visits a show by Derek Simmers and Lauren Pelc-McArthur. When many local artists make work that resembles their northern surroundings, the drawings and paintings of New Address look ...

Abstract art has its roots in early human civilisation. Cultures across the globe have used non-figurative, but highly symbolic, decoration for centuries. While abstract art became the dominant art ...

MUSCAT: Abstract art reflects the artist’s inner world — a translation of emotion into colour, feeling into form and memory ...

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 ...