The back story is this: By the mid-1960s, when abstract painting had lost much of its avant-garde thrust, sculpture acquired a new importance. But it wasn’t a return of cold, hard, carved stone ...

The mind processes abstract art and figurative art very differently, and the experience of viewing one or the other can change the way you think, a new study shows. Our minds process events and ...

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 ...

Saraswati Tirtha is considered to be a place of great religious importance and lakhs of people reach Pehowa every year.

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 ...

On July 24, 1997, architect I. M. Pei shared his thoughts on the relationship between sculpture and scale, including why abstract sculpture has no limit to scale compared to the lifelike elements of ...

Commuters along Speer Boulevard in downtown Denver will notice something different. Gerald Cross' 1975 untitled geometric sculpture consisting of orange-painted steel and blue plexiglass has returned ...

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 ...

Outside avant-garde artistic circles, the creation of The Abstract Group, in Pittsburgh, in late 1944, was greeted with something less than fanfare. In a contemporaneous installment of his column ...