The greatest discoveries in art history, as in so many fields, tend to come from those working outside the box. Interdisciplinary studies break new ground because those steadfastly lashed to a ...

When you look at an abstract painting, study it in a museum for example, what do you see and what do you feel? Does it conjure an old memory, a sense of spirituality, or confusion? Artists and ...

Researchers at Columbia’s Zuckerman Institute found that people’s brain activity varied more when viewing abstract art, as compared with representational art. This was especially true in the default ...

I RECENTLY VIEWED an exhibition of abstract paintings by the artist Josef Albers in the Lewis Glucksman Gallery at UCC. As usual, when I look at abstract art I find some of the images vaguely pleasing ...

Click through our gallery of some of the most beautiful artwork from the prehistoric era. Here, a bison graces the Cave of Altamira’s 25,000-year-old Hall of Polychromes. Its meaty body overwhelms its ...