Shape-shifting — in art as in real life. By Steve Bennett, Book editor/Arts and architecture writer | San Antonio Express-News Updated Jan 22, 2013 5:47 p.m.

Art viewers are invited to find out how experiences can shape an artist's perspective during "Petit Genre", which is running at Tang Contemporary Art until July 13.This is a solo exhibition by ...

Scientists have studied trees depicted in various works of art and found they contain fractals, following relatively simple ...

Yet some artists are giving the tea bag a second life, letting their simple shapes and colors shine. Colorado artist Wewer Keohane has been making art from spent tea bags for over 20 years.

Shape is one of the seven basic building blocks of art. Using still life paintings of fruit, we look into how artists create their individual style and develop a unique approach to making shapes ...

Electriflow takes advantage of several different pouch shapes to create origami-like folds in flat plastic sheets. And it’s fast: Purnendu’s insects can beat their wings at a top speed of about 25 ...

It brings together dozens of still lifes realised between the 17th century and the present day, its informative captions providing a "potted social history" of Britain over the period.

Yet the work’s presence provides an opportunity to reflect, as does Jann Haworth’s Donuts, Coffee Cups and Comic (1962) which presents its subjects as soft toys on a real-life tabletop in a ...

Scientists have discovered that trees in famous artwork follow the same mathematical fractal patterns as real trees. Researchers analyzed tree art across cultures, finding consistent branch ...