DESIGNING ANCESTORS Engraved patterns on a mussel shell, shown in close-up, were made by Homo erectus on the island of Java at least 430,000 years ago, researchers say. Wim Lustenhouwer, VU Univ ...

Abstract thought allows us to conceptualize, to make a symbolic representations, or draw connections and patterns to things that are not necessarily present or real to us now.

Three-month-old babies cannot sit up or roll over, yet they are already capable of learning patterns from simply looking at the world around them, according to a recent study. For the first time ...

Spatial thinkers think in abstract patterns, while object visualizers see photorealistic images. Not everybody thinks verbally. ... Patterns, and Abstractions.” ...

It is an abstract pattern, a crosshatch of red lines, like a hashtag, on a rock flake. The scientists who found it determined that the pattern is about 73,000 years old.

Lindsey Fox’s watercolors transform Oregon landscapes into abstract patterns of art. Lindsey Fox is a watercolor artist and painter based out of Portland Oregon. Her work features plein air ...

Lottie Consalvo says to make sense of abstract art is to kill it. Credit: Ben Adams We learn how Antonia Perricone Mrljak didn’t start painting until the age of 38, and that Nathan Feldman, like ...

Her paintings are uncompromisingly abstract, from the grids and pattern works of the late 1960s to the laser-cut, sculptural pieces she produces today.