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 ...

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 ...

Once during a conversation, artist Arpita Singh had said, “Encountering the blank surface of a canvas or paper fills me with anxiety. It represents a challenge and the first mark I make on it is ...

I was intrigued, surprised, and, most of all, thoroughly convinced by Pete Schulte’s first exhibition at McKenzie Fine Art, Properties of Dust and Smoke, pt. 2 (October 30–December 21, 2019). Working ...

John Pai, “Involution” (1974), welded steel, 40 1/6 by 40 1/6 by 40 1/6 inches (all images courtesy of the artist) FAIRFIELD, Connecticut — The last time John Pai had a solo show of his sculptures in ...

Abstract faces are adorning our favourite homeware pieces right now. Here are seven must-buy accessories to try the look yourself. Line drawing and abstract expression of the human form are nothing ...

Discover the oldest abstract drawing, a 73,000-year-old ochre design found in Blombos Cave that reflects ancient human cognition. It's a flake split from a larger piece of silcrete — a rock made from ...

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 ...