The power of abstract art lies in its ability to convey meaning ... These results support the simulation theory in emotion science, which predicts that our abstract feature-emotion associations ...

That's why abstract art is used in therapy for stress ... world through art and neuroscience In a certain sense, both art and science attempt to understand and describe the world around us.

As one of the abstract styles developing in the 1960s, Optical illusion (or Op) Art features games of lines and geometric ...

Paul Getty Trust: Art and science may at first blush look like ... It's also a way of grasping something that can feel very abstract and far away, like climate change. These paintings were made ...

Abstract art is more difficult. We are often unsure about what we are seeing. And uncertain of what response is expected. Can modern science play a role in helping us understand the processes ...

These paintings are both by the Dutch artist Piet Mondrian but display strikingly different styles. The house on the left is representational; the colorful squares on the right are more abstract.

"Our research indicates that engaging with the beauty of art can enhance abstract thinking and promote a different mindset to our everyday patterns of thought, shifting us into a more expansive ...

They found that the trees depicted in the artworks, even when abstract or stylistic ... important in science ends up being one of the last things to go (away) in the art,” Newberry said.

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 ...