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 ...

37 x 36 x 48 in. (94 x 91.4 x 121.9 cm.) ‘Almost a Tear’ is an abstracted glass sculpture featuring brilliant multi color dichroic glass. The sculpture strikes beautiful simplicity with its ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Britain’s largest single work of stained glass celebrates its 50th birthday this month. The Baptistry of Coventry ...

Great abstract painters like Pollock and Monet lose themselves in colour, sensation and memory to show that reality is subjective Abstract art is a kind of miracle. How can a painting that is just a ...

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 ...

“We must not be afraid of this word ‘abstract.’ All art is primarily abstract.” Korean art historian Kim Boggi quoted British art historian and philosopher Herbert Read (1893-1968) in the introduction ...

Abstract art often poses a challenge for many viewers due to its lack of connection to the physical world. Like other modernist art forms, it raises questions about how we understand and appreciate ...