The incredible story of how America's CIA used the art of Abstract Expressionism as a weapon during its Cold War fight ...

The walls of the Iowa City Parks Department lobby and offices are lined with intricate quilts that use colorful fabrics to ...

Mary Abbott modeled for Vogue and moved among icons like de Kooning. Now, her bold work is the subject of an overdue New York ...

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Sam Gilliam was a famous American abstract painter known for his suspended canvases, soaked in acrylic paint. As a young ...

Palmira Magliocco was 22 years old when she moved from her native Sicily to the United States. There, she was able to study art in school and find her way to abstract, a painting style that puts her ...

A new study finds that actively engaging with artistic beauty—rather than just looking at art—enhances abstract thinking and psychological distancing, helping people see the bigger picture beyond ...

Its Gold White Abstract Wall Art Canvas Print costs £43.85, but is far larger than Dunelm's offering. Dunelm's Gold Abstract Framed Canvas has an impressive customer score of 4.8 stars out of ...

Staring at beautiful objects really can spark inspiration ... found that pausing to contemplate the beauty of art encourages “big picture” abstract thinking, which transforms our state ...

"Our research indicates that engaging with the beauty of art can enhance abstract thinking and promote a different mindset to our everyday patterns of thought, shifting us into a more expansive ...

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 ...

These paintings are both by the Dutch artist Piet Mondrian but display strikingly different styles. The house on the left is representational; the colorful squares on the right are more abstract.