From abstraction to realism, artists are drawn to nature, one of the most enduring themes in art. Combining observation with interpretation, artists express a profound and multifaceted connection the ...

here are not many days in the life of a peony," says John Steffl, the erstwhile painter now a digital photographer. When Steffl was going through round after round of chemotherapy for lymphoma a ...

The Standard's journalism is supported by our readers. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. A dramatic departure from realism, abstract art champions ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 art ...