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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...

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...

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...

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...

Geta Brătescu - Drawing Stories of Forms

Geta Brătescu was 90 years old when the Romanian Culture Ministry chose her to represent her native Romania in the 57th Venice Biennale. Her third appearance at the Biennale, it attracted global a...

Female Abstract Artists You Should Know

There is a gender bias in art. But important female abstract artists are not in short supply. The problem is market demand. In 1971, Linda Nochlin wrote an influential article on gender bias in ar...

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...

The Week in Abstract Art – Patterns and Randomness

Revelation is often associated with abstract art. Sometimes a revelation inspires an artist to begin working. Other times a revelatory moment lets an artist know a work is done. Viewers frequently...

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 ...

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...

How to Define Monochrome Painting

In 1921, the Constructivist artist Alexander Rodchenko exhibited three monochrome paintings – titled Pure Red Color, Pure Blue Color, and Pure Yellow Color – which he deemed the ultimate pictorial...

Synthetic Cubism Explained - Planes, Shapes and Vantage Points

Pablo Picasso, the father of Cubism, was famous for his eagerness to evolve. After inventing Analytic Cubism in 1907, he easily could have just kept painting in that style for decades and still go...

How Monochrome Paintings of Yves Klein Shifted the Focus in Art

Labels are relative. When a painter paints perfect likenesses of trees and boats and mountains, most people call those paintings representational, because they supposedly represent reality. When a...