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Geometric Abstraction: NOT Another Heroic Tale of Malevich and Mondrian

Why straight lines still matter Geometric abstraction is one of those art histories everyone thinks they know. A few squares by Malevich, a Mondrian in primary colors, some Op Art that makes your e...

The Growing Tree of Emotions: Nikolaos Schizas’ Ever-Evolving Series

Nikolaos Schizas, a Barcelona-based artist, has become one of the most prolific and sought-after abstract painters of his generation. Despite only beginning his professional career in 2020, Schizas...

Did You Get the Message? How Abstract Artists Communicate Environmental Urgency

Without a figure, without a narrative, without literal representation: how do you pass a message in visual art? This is the activist's dilemma in abstract art, and it explains why truly activist ab...

The Language of Feeling: Artists Who Paint Pure Emotions

What if a painting could speak directly to your soul without showing you a single recognizable thing? What if color and form alone could make you feel joy, melancholy, or transcendence as powerfull...

10 South American Abstract Artists to Watch in 2025

South American abstract art is experiencing a remarkable renaissance, propelled by unprecedented market validation and global institutional recognition. This resurgence is not merely curatorial tre...

The Neuroscience of Beauty: How Artists Create Happiness

For centuries, philosophers and artists have sought to define the nature of "beauty." Thinkers such as Plato and Kant conceptualized beauty as a transcendent idea or an aesthetic experience detache...

Very Painterly Abstract Artists: The New Alchemists

In his Heidelberg studio, Arvid Boecker (featured image) scrapes methodically across his canvas with a screen printing squeegee. Layer by layer, he builds what he calls an "archaeology of color." E...

The Architecture of Abstraction - An Interview with Artist Robert Baribeau

Oregon-born, New York-based abstract artist Robert Baribeau has weathered innumerable aesthetic trends throughout his 47-year exhibition history. When his first New York show opened in 1979, at Al...

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...

Browsing the Artworks of the Digital Abstract Art Realm

The rapid development in digital technology had a profound impact on all aspects of our existence and art could hardly be spared of its disruptive influence. Today’s art emerges through the click ...

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...

Hard Edge Painting For Sale? Look No Further!

Forms are finite, flat, rimmed by a hard clean edge, notoriously explicated Jules Langsner, an art critic and curator, the emerging tendency of simplified, often geometric forms with razor-sharp c...

Contemporary Gestural Abstraction At Your Fingertips

Unpremeditated spontaneity and unconstrained freedom most distinctly captured in the gestural abstraction matured along with the artist's fervent quest for freedom, authentic self, and a myriad of...

Decorate Your Wall With Some Purple Abstract Art!

The scarcity of the pigment extracted from the Mediterranean sea snails made the Tyrian purple early on abundant with superlatives - the most prestigious, admired, and expensive of all colors. Fro...

Original Abstract Ink Art You Shouldn't Miss

The ink art has been around for millennia - from its uncouth and scanty Greek beginnings to the most sophisticated artworks created during Tang and Song dynasties in China and followed by the Muro...

This Week's Pick of Artworks to Collect - Abstract Drawings!

An indelible dilemma survives our times: are drawings - and to which extent - artworks in their own right or do they belong to an exploratory and even auxiliary form as they are absorbed in larger...

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...

Yellow Abstract Art For Sale to Brighten Up Your Home!

While vigorously applying yellow - in Yellow-Red-Blue or The Yellow Canvas, among others - Kandinsky claimed that yellow torments man, it imposes itself on him like a constraint, intruding with 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...

Don't Feel Blue - Buy Blue Abstract Art Instead!

For most of its early history, humans were blue-blind. Homer in his evocative descriptions alluded to a wine-red sea while the ancient elucidations of natural phenomena like rainbow plainly exclud...

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...

Celebrating Female Abstract Art!

While the contribution of female abstract artists was pivotal to the abstract art, their work was notoriously undervalued and lacked the recognition indisputably received by their male counterpart...

Abstract Watercolor Art You Simply Can't Miss Out On!

Adored for its unparalleled qualities - its unique translucency, impermanence, and vibrancy - watercolor art was for long short of the recognition or fame reserved for techniques such as oil paint...

Paint Your Abstract Art Collection Green!

As spring timidly arrived, green imposingly enters the spotlight with its elemental association with nature and blossoming vegetation. However, its copious metaphorical resonances are hardly exhau...

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...

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...

Your Best Buy This Week - Art by American Abstract Artists!

The recently unpretentious opening of Uncharted: American Abstraction in the Information Age at Hofstra University Museum of Art, a group show featuring 8 members of the American Abstract Artists...

Abstract Photography Prints For Sale You Shouldn't Miss!

In its transgression of boundaries, abstract photography went beyond simple definitions and characterizations. Although initially rooted in realism, the photographic medium embraced the non-repres...

Ten Black and White Abstract Pieces to Add to Your Collection

From Malevich’s pure geometric forms devoid of color to Soulages, the master of noir -- whose retrospective is currently on at the Louvre in celebration of his 100th birthday, abstract art explore...

IdeelArt Presents Homage to the Square Exhibition Curated by Richard Caldicott

An interdisciplinary artist known for his groundbreaking series of photographic abstractions, Caldicott has long been fascinated by the multitudinous properties of the square. Some of the oldest r...

Ten Affordable Abstract Art Pieces to Get Under £1000

If you are on the lookout for exclusive and affordable abstract art, you are in the right place! IdeelArt brings quality and original abstract art from the artists' studio directly to you, seamles...

Give the Gift of Abstract Art This Christmas!

As the premier online gallerists for contemporary abstraction, we at IdeelArt are passionate about the meaning and beauty to be found in abstract art. It is an honor for us to be able to represent...

Diversity is Key to the Future of American Abstract Artists

When American Abstract Artists (AAA) was founded in 1936, most critics and curators considered abstract art too “European” to be “American.” The irony of that prejudice, of course, is that America...

Finding the Best Art for Interior Designers

The relationship between art and interior design is complex. Every interior designer has an ongoing need for original fine art. But few fine artists embark on the creation of new work with the sta...

At Yossi Milo Gallery, A Group Show of Artists Painting with Light

On 17 January 2019, Yossi Milo Gallery in New York will open a group exhibition examining the contemporary state of Concrete Photography. Titled Painting with Light, the exhibition will include wo...

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 ...

Jaanika Peerna Interview: These Waters Have Stories to Tell

Jaanika Peerna embodies nature. In her performances, she flows with the rhythms of air and water. To the eye, her movements appear both intuitive and inevitable. She is creating something new on t...

Why Do Abstract Art Images Make us Feel so Good?

When you look at abstract art images, how do they make you feel? Do you find that they tend to cause you to have a visceral emotional response? Does abstract art make you feel happy? Does it make ...

How Photogram Introduced the Non-Representational to Photography

A photogram is a cameraless photograph: an image burned onto a photosensitive surface without the use of a machine. Photograms predate photographs. The earliest photographic images of reality capt...

Discover the Gouache Art You Can Collect

We have written before about gouache art, exploring its rich history and traditions in relation to abstraction. Gouache is a versatile paint medium that combines some of the most desirable traits ...

What is Hidden Inside an Abstract Design of a Painting

We have written before about the elements of art, such as line, color, texture, etc. Design principles are what we use to describe the ways those elements collaborate within a visual composition. ...

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...

A Cocktail of Abstract Thoughts in Paris

October definitely was the month of contemporary and modern art in Paris. In addition to FIAC (International Contemporary Art Fair, the most famous event) about 30 significant other exhibitions an...

IdeelArt Gathering in Brooklyn

IdeelArt recently had the pleasure of getting together for a few hours with more than thirty American abstract artists in a bar in Brooklyn. The experience was unique and powerful. We often meet o...

Artists Peter Soriano and Harald Kröner Featured at Drawing Now Paris

If you’re wondering about the status of contemporary drawing look to Drawing Now Paris, the world’s foremost contemporary drawing fair. This prestigious annual event returns on 30 March, again hig...

The Far-Reaching Influence of Momentous Modern Abstract Paintings

Modern is tricky. If I say I want a modern apartment I mean one suited toward today’s lifestyle: one that’s wired, green, open and light-filled. If I say I love modern abstract paintings, I mean o...

Drawn In: The Use of Line in Abstract Painting

Some painters profess that when it comes to the use of drawing in their work, there are only two traditions to follow: that of Matisse or that of Cézanne. Matisse’s lines define and often contain ...

Less is More: Minimalism

Minimalism is an abstract art movement which emerged in America in the 1960’s, and which mostly refers to painting and sculpture. Minimalist pieces in no way attempt to represent external visual r...