A new study using sophisticated brain scans shows how simple line drawings can capture the essence ... these scenes seem to be a bit more abstract than some may have thought -- we don't need ...

We scan an abstract painting for links between line segments ... at formal art is actually a form of passive narrative reading, because the artist has given us everything our brain expects ...

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 ...

To investigate the question of how we humans perceive line drawings, scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences in Leipzig, in collaboration with the Freie ...

In the museum context, the drawings look like abstract works of ... Except now, his muse was the brain. "I see huge connections to contemporary art, because the line work is so detailed and ...