In a study published Jan. 5 in the Cambridge Archaeology Journal, a team of scholars suggests that these seemingly abstract dots and lines, when positioned near animal imagery, actually represent ...

Patterns of lines and dots associated with specific animal species ... in the Lascaux cave aroused Ben Bacon’s curiosity about the meaning of the abstract signs and symbols in Ice Age art.

Lines, dots and other symbols painted in caves during the last Ice Age may be the earliest example of proto writing – symbols that communicate a small amount of information like an emoji.

A chain to unveil a multiverse through millions of colour drops. An inflation of lines and dots to create a trajectory that leads to the core which is the source of everything and yet in existence ...

In a bid to shed light on the inspiration(s) that form the core of abstract art, cultural theorist Ranjit Hoskote and artist Mehlli Gobhai have curated an exhibition titled Nothing is Absolute ...

His own work became much more expressionistic—just as Abstract Expressionism was losing steam. As he put it: “I was always working against the grain.” The show at Mitchell-Innes & Nash makes ...