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Action Painting or a Glimpse into the Emotions

The term “Action Painting” was coined by art critic Harold Rosenberg in his 1952 essay “The American Action Painters.” Rather than discussing paintings in terms of their “objectness,” or in terms ...

Ready, Set, Paint! Performative Painting from IdeelArt

When defining action painting in 1952, art critic Harold Rosenberg demarcated the emerging movement through re-interpretation of canvas not as a picture but as an event. American action painters n...

Enrich Your Home With a Large Abstract Painting!

Art may come in all sizes, but abstract art comes large. Jackson Pollock, Barnett Newman, and Mark Rothko - the progenitors of large canvases - with their unprecedented large-sized paintings put a...

Buy The Very Best Of European Abstract Art Today

From its beginnings in the 1900s, abstract art was a genuinely European phenomenon that heralded profuse possibilities that emerged from a rejection of representation as a passive mirroring of thi...

Fan of Red? This Abstract Art Is For You!

Red is the first color humans mastered, fabricated, reproduced, and broke into different shades, claims Michel Pastoureau in his seminal Red: The History of a Color. From our Paleolithic ancestors...