Avigdor Arikha was a French and Israeli artist known for his painting, drawing, and printmaking. His work often explored portraits, nudes, still lifes, and landscapes within the abstract and ...

Now, scientists are having a go. A new study has analyzed what happens in people's brains when they look at abstract art. Published in the journal PNAS, the study provides insight into how the ...

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 ...

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 ...

Instead, Audu lets his abstract art speak for itself ... He later received his Master of Fine Arts at the University of Georgia in 1984. Audu said it was not a conscious decision to make his ...

Researchers studying people's brain activity when looking at abstract art have revealed why we interpret blobs of paint on canvas so differently. When you look at an abstract painting, study it in ...