Humans are visual creatures. Objects we call “beautiful” or “aesthetic” are a crucial part of our humanity. Even the oldest known examples of rock and cave art served aesthetic rather than utilitarian ...

The Art of Hybycozo" is a new exhibition at the Missouri Botanical Garden made of 21 large geometric forms with intricate ...

Patternitechture 4, titled “Boundaries That Expand; Where We Stand,” places the focus of its projects and programs on the exploration of the world of new patterns. Through this lens, it aims to study ...

Recently, I’ve seen that many people in the Western world have begun to question our general collective aversion to color. Real estate agents recommend keeping walls in neutral colors and investing in ...

Steve Burn isn’t typically the type to try things he sees on YouTube. “I’m not normally that adventurous,” says Burn, of Kirkwood. Then he watched videos of people pumping 6,000 volts of electricity ...

For most of the last four decades, Pattern and Decoration art seemed wonderfully outré to many observers, an eccentric violation of the standards and norms of serious painting and sculpture that was ...

Pattern is a key part of organising and decorating design. In expressive art, pattern can be used to add variety to a composition, to reflect patterns used in the real world, or to help create a sense ...

The most common challenge facing any novice home decorator has got to be choosing paint color for walls. But right up there next to that is mixing patterns. "Marrying patterns is the hallmark of a ...