Walk into any contemporary gallery in Las Vegas, and you'll likely encounter a canvas splashed with colors that seem to defy logic. No recognizable shapes. No obvious subject. Just pure, raw visual ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...