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 ...

It is largely thanks to her that the Centre Pompidou has a significant collection of works by Wassily Kandinsky. The Paris museum houses and exhibits various paintings, drawings, engravings, and ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

A fragment of stone found in South Africa provides the canvas for what archaeologists believe is the oldest human drawing ever found. As one of the earliest examples of artistic thinking in humans, ...