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 has discovered.

Researchers studying people's brain activity when looking at abstract art have revealed why we interpret blobs of paint on canvas so differently.

But our first visual abstract had 10 times the retweets as normal." The study documents the impact of the journal's first 44 visual abstracts, from July to December 2016.

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Visual abstract of a meta-analysis to investigate the effects of healthy and unhealthy diets on gestational diabetes risk across ethnic groups.

Seattle Art Museum is getting a major gift of abstract expressionist and European masterworks — including those by Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning — from the collection once owned by the ...

A filmmaker and artist, Oskar Fischinger is best known for making art using abstract visuals with musical accompaniment.