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Pink Abstraction

The color pink is all around us: in the sensual curves of a mouth; in the innocence of a valentine; in the leaves of the sacred Sakura; in a glass of rosé at a Roman cafe. Pink is essential to the...

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 ...

The Art of Displaying Multiple Perspectives

When a painting consists of two panels, it can be considered a diptych. The term comes from the late Greek words diptukha (two writing tablets) or diptukhos (folded in half). The tradition of dipt...

In the Dark

In visual art, darkness is the result of many factors: the interplay of hue and tint; the reflective qualities of a medium or a surface; the way light interacts with texture. But is darkness only ...

The Art of Lines

A line is said to connect two points. It is a one-dimensional visual element. But what else can a line be? When does a line become a plane? When does a line become a shape? When does a line obtain...

Minimalism: Less is More !

The drive toward Minimalism in abstract art is as old as abstraction itself. Seurat was on its trail when he pioneered Divisionism. Malevich nearly perfected it with his Suprematist compositions. ...

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...

Here's Some Soothing Grey Abstract Art For Your Wall

Falling between two absolutes - black and white - grey is nothing less but perfect neutral. Its complexity is deeply entrenched in the balance it embodies and its intermediate essence. Being expel...

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...

Abstract Art With A Twist - Our Mixed Media Works For Sale!

Merging two or more mediums and materials in a single artwork became increasingly popular in the 20th century. Picasso’s Still Life with Chair Caning is commonly considered the first modern collag...

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...

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...

Abstract Art for Sale

IdeelArt offers a curated selection of 3000+ original Abstract Art artworks from some of the greatest abstract artists in the world, including paintings, photography, drawings, and limited editions.

You'll Simply Love These Abstract Art Prints For Sale!

A centuries-old process of creating artwork by printing found itself at the forefront of contemporary art as horizons of the visual reflected the cascading transformations of human experience that...

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...

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...

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...

The Languages of Oil Painting

Oil paints are created by mixing dry pigments with a medium of “drying oil,” such as linseed oil or walnut oil, which binds the pigments, allowing them to be applied to a surface while wet where t...

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...

Hard edge, a response to gestural

The term Hard Edged was coined by art critic Jules Langsner and art historian Peter Selz, to describe a tendency that was becoming prominent in the late 1950s in the work of multiple California-ba...

Playing with Geometric

Geometric Abstract art employs geometric forms in a non-figurative way. The tradition of using geometry in visual art dates back centuries, however in many cases geometric forms were used in a dis...

The Art of the Process

The term process art describes the sentiment that an art object is less important than the process of its creation. The final artwork might be seen only as a remnant of the act from which it manif...

Improvisation and Uncontrolled Creativity in Gestural Abstraction

When we say that a work of art is gestural, what do we mean? A gesture is a signal; a sign; a movement of the body. Gesture is one of the aspects of a painting that tells us about the painter. We ...