Even cubism falls into this category. A distorted face still reads as a face, It never becomes truly abstract. Non-objective art by contrast, it's not representational at all. It is abstract.

When you look at a painting of parfaits and sundaes by Wayne Thiebaud, do you think of the bottles and vessels lined up in the still lifes of Giorgio Morandi? Or view a row of his cupcakes and see ...

Wilkinson wrote mystical prose, and in 1857, published a volume of terrible poetry equal to the teeth-grinding verses of William McGonagall, including a song praising chloroform, two doggerel elegies ...

Cubism, impressionism, expressionism and... Is there anything else? Many artistic currents did not achieve such renown, but ...

I have been privileged to witness, first-hand, the remarkable evolution of Modern and contemporary art from the Middle East, and this book aims to share that journey with a wider audience.

The question of why, at the turn of the 20th century, modern art flourished in Europe has long been one of art history’s most intriguing. Was it exposure to non-Western influences? The advent of ...

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These non-human identities (NHIs)—spanning API ... creating a sprawling network of identities that require immediate attention. Modern architectures—from DevOps pipelines to serverless ...

The establishment of the Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing in 1918 synchronized with the evolution of 20th-century Chinese art. Artists and educators reformed to awaken and motivate people ...

Abstract art is more difficult. We are often unsure about what we are seeing. And uncertain of what response is expected. Can modern science ... abstract art more than non-artists.

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 in ...

As Ayn Rand remarked: “An objective law protects a country’s freedom; only a non-objective law can give a statist the chance he seeks: a chance to impose his arbitrary will — his policies ...