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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 ...

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...

Dana Gordon in Paris – New Abstract Painting from New York

Dana Gordon's elegant, powerful new work sings beautifully in its refined setting in Paris's Galerie Metanoia, on rue Quincampoix in the Beaubourg neighborhood. "Lucky Paris" is the response from ...

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 ...

Interview With American Abstract Painter Dana Gordon

New paintings by Dana Gordon are on view at Sideshow Gallery in Brooklyn until 4 June 2017. We recently had a chance to catch up with Gordon and talk to him about this exciting new body of work. I...

A Fine Relationship between Calligraphy and Abstraction

Calligraphy is where symbol and gesture meet. At its core, calligraphy is writing. It utilizes the traditional tools of the writer: pen and ink, or brush and paint. But the objective of writing is...

Justice to Pissarro by Dana Gordon

For over a century, the painter Paul Cézanne (1839-1906) has been considered the father of modern art. His ascendancy, which began around 1894, had a tidal influence on the development of the avan...

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 ...

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...

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...

A Brief History of Gouache in Abstract Art

Can paint speak? In 1964, Canadian philosopher Herbert Marshall McLuhan coined the now-famous phrase, “The medium is the message.” If McLuhan was correct, that means that whatever is communicated ...

Three of the Most Effective Ways to Light Your Art

"Let there be light" - if only it was that easy for abstract art lovers to display their collections optimally. Too much light and the intensity could overpower the artwork; too little and its bea...

The Beauty Found in Cubist Portraits

In 1878 Margaret Wolfe Hamilton, in her novel Molly Bawn, coined one of humanity’s most beloved sentiments: “Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.” Three years later Picasso was born. Though Hamil...

Poetic Charge of an Abstract Print

At an opening of your favorite abstract painter’s work, you’re immediately drawn to a painting, like a happy moon being pulled toward a welcoming star. You know you want it. Then you see something...