The rise of a great art never was the result simply of a shift in symbolism. If certain outstanding artists had not demonstrated how powerful an expression could be achieved within the abstract ...

Researchers studied an ancient granite pebble naturally shaped like a face, marked with a red ochre fingerprint. It happens ...

Pollock became a leading figure of the Abstract Expressionist movement ... art was pure abstraction, rendering art emptied of any historical or symbolic representation. In a 1952 ARTnews article ...

Archaeologists in Spain have unearthed a 43,000-year-old pebble bearing a Neanderthal fingerprint, potentially the oldest ...

The artifact indicates that symbolic art existed in the region well before ... the people who lived in the region around 6400 BCE. Its abstract form and the absence of exaggerated features suggest ...