With the return of sunlit evenings, warmer days and sprouting gardens, now is the perfect time for budding artists to celebrate the signs of spring through art. The new season brings about ...

What makes a tree a tree? Or rather, why can we recognize trees in even quite abstract depictions when they are so varied in nature? Researchers have found a clue in the branches, and used math to ...

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Katharina Grosse, “I Think This Is a Pine Tree” (2013) at Berlin’s Hamburger Banhof Museum for Contemporary Art (all images courtesy the artist) BERLIN — In a large room, three tree trunks lie ...

Abstract art has its roots in early human civilisation. Cultures across the globe have used non-figurative, but highly symbolic, decoration for centuries. While abstract art became the dominant art ...