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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Does abstract art turn you off, disturb your preconceived ideas about painting or send you running out of a gallery confused? Take heart, for you are not alone in the large world of viewers who expect ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The issue of what makes an artwork good has probably been debated since the first splotch of pigment touched a cave wall. It is nearly impossible to define what true art is. Despite this, many ...