Chico >> Understanding abstract art is sometimes a challenge. It’s a visual language that is intended to evoke a feeling that is oftentimes hard to depict without a discernible reference. “Ardently ...

Katie Ruiz was finding it, her appreciation for abstract art. Trained as a figurative artist and working as a textile-based ...

The process of understanding abstract art is like learning how to swim by being thrown into the deep end. The experience forces a way of thinking and seeing that isn’t natural for most people. The ...

It is hard to tell if abstract painting actually got worse [after the 1960s], if it merely stagnated, or if it simply looked bad in comparison to the hopes its own accomplishments had raised. —Frank ...

When does a squiggly line cease to become a squiggly line and become abstract art? According to a new arts group in St George’s in doesn’t really matter. Paul Doughty and other local artists will ...

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 ...

Abstract art often gets an undeserved bad rap. Many people famously dismissed Jackson Pollock‘s signature drip paintings in the 1950s, for instance, as being something that a trained chimpanzee could ...