Her artistic journey began at the age of 15 with her first oil painting. Her work can be seen this month at the Tollhouse Gallery in Roscoe Village.

Viewing art is good for us, but new research may now tell us why — and that therapeutic uses may be better than previously ...

Famous works of abstract art achieve popularity by using shapes that resonate with the neural mechanisms in the brain linked to visual information, a psychologist at the University of Liverpool ...

Researchers studying people's brain activity when looking at abstract art have revealed why we interpret blobs of paint on canvas so differently.When you look at an abstract painting, study it for a ...

Sandra Kensler. Nature's Last Stand. And like Tejada, Sandra Kensler’s Nature’s Last Stand deploys the right amount of abstraction to bring out the starkness in her subject.Her sharp angles and burned ...

Abstract art dares our visual system to interpret an image that is fundamentally different from the kind of images our brain has evolved to reconstruct. Kandel describes the difference between ...

If you wander through New York’s Museum of Modern Art, you’ll eventually come across Painting Number 2 by Franz Kline, a set of thick, unruly black lines on a white canvas. Elsewhere, you will ...

If abstract art, or any other art, finds us at a loss for words, it is because there is no ready vocabulary to express the fundamental values that are peculiarly those of the visual arts, and we ...

Wassily Kandinsky’s 1932 painting Decisive Pink, like much of the early abstract painter’s work, is fun to look at.The titular pink rectangle on the left contrasts with a bright yellow ...

The classic late defense of abstract painting, Michael Fried’s delightfully severe “Art and Objecthood” of 1967, had slammed Minimalism—and Robert Morris’s art specifically—for its ...

University of Liverpool. (2008, November 22). Evolution Of The Visual System Is Key To Abstract Art. ScienceDaily. Retrieved June 4, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2008 / 11 ...