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Less Is More! Collect Your Minimal Abstract Art Here

Less is more, a popular aphorism by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, not only succinctly captured the essence of emerging minimalism, but inspired the movement that continues to evolve in a number of aes...

Brighten Up Your Quarantine With Some Colorful Abstract Art!

The COVID-19 outbreak is changing the world and disrupting our lives in the most unprecedented way. Many countries around the globe introduced quarantine measures to prevent further spread of COVI...

Why Small Paintings Can Make a Big Impression on Your Abstract Art Collection

The trend of large, loud and largely unsellable paintings, dubbed festival art by an American art critic Peter Schjeldahl, dominated art fairs for two decades - stretching throughout the 90s to ea...

Anton Ginzburg’s Interpretations of Eastern Europe's Modernist-Formal Vocabulary

For the past few years, Russian-born multi-media artist Anton Ginzburg has been exploring novel ways to bridge trends in global contemporary art with the aesthetic principles of early Russian Mode...

18 Contemporary Abstract Artists Open Up About Their Lineage

It is dangerous and impossible to teach art. Yet it is also imperative. For art to exist, artists must learn how to become whatever it is that they are going to become, and how to create whatever ...

The Secret of Making the Perfect Pastel Drawing

Pastel is a versatile word. It can be a noun when referring to a pastel, a general term for a pastel drawing or a pastel painting. It can also be a verb, as in to pastel something, meaning the act...

Decorating a Small Living Room with Abstract Art

Every interior design philosophy comes down to one overarching idea: you should feel comfortable inside your home. Abstract art can play an important role in creating that perfect interior space w...

The Complex Minimalism of Robert Mangold

The magic in art is personal. It begins when someone is transformed through an aesthetic experience, and becomes inspired in turn to transform the world. Many viewers perceive the art of Robert Ma...

The Revolution Abstract Acrylic Painting Brought to the Medium

Every artistic medium possesses qualities that affect the way viewers interact with it. As one of the newest mediums, acrylic paint communicates, among other things, modernity. What else is unique...

Meet Minimal Artists - The Masters of Purity and Reduction

Studying art movements is a bit like Alice going down the proverbial rabbit hole. The more you think you have figured out, the more still remains to be discovered. When first learning about Minima...

Brilliant Examples of Minimal Art

Minimal art is easy to misunderstand. Partly that’s because artists, critics, art historians and art theorists often disagree about Minimalism’s objectives and defining characteristics. Some of Mi...

The Will to Restraint: Tendencies of Reductive Art

When thinking about art, it’s rare to arrive at terminology that transcends the limiting concepts of style, period, or movement. But when we do it can be liberating, even unifying, to discover lan...

How Colorist Painters Speak With Hues

What a colorist gives us isn’t a yellow that says, “Yellow,” or even a yellow that says, “Mountain,” or “Tree,” but rather a yellow that says, “Eternity,” or “Fierceness,” or “Kindness,” or “Power...