Each week, we publish a gallery of readers' pictures on a set theme. This week it is "Canvas".

To balance it out, add canvas pictures that offer a calming contrast—like landscapes, abstract shapes, or even framed artwork from your children. CanvasChamp Recommends: Use a combo of vibrant metal ...

But with an abstract canvas, ... Frank Sinatra, Abstract after Mondrian (1991). Photo courtesy of Sotheby’s. This is true both anecdotally and, it turns out, cognitively.

In post-World War II New York, abstract expressionism, sometimes called the New York School, emerged, led by male artists like Jackson Pollock, who made the cover of Time magazine in 1956. But "the… ...