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

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 ...

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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 ...

One of the points brought out by the exhibition of “Abstract Painting in America” held at the Whitney Museum last spring was the fact that between 1915 and 1935 a surprising number of American ...

A famous abstract painting by the Dutch artist Piet Mondrian has been hanging upside down in museums for more than 75 years — after it was first displayed the wrong way at the Big Apple’s ...

This Artist’s Powerful Abstract Pieces Reimagine What a Painting Is Adam Pendleton brings his geometric artworks to the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden. Stephanie Rudig - Freelance Writer.

Imagine you’re on a first date, sipping a martini at a bar. You eat an olive and patiently listen to your date tell you about his job at a bank. Your brain is processing this scene, in part, by ...

“The brain painting software along with the EEG cap is trying to capture a wave from the brain that we all have called the P300 wave,” Andujar told Hyperallergic in an interview.

‘Another World: The Transcendental Painting Group’ at LACMA presents an overdue survey of the abstract painting movement started in New Mexico. Jan. 6, 2023.