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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...

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...

Defining the Lyrical Abstraction

Lyrical Abstraction is a seemingly self-defining term, and yet for generations its origin and meaning have been debated. The American art collector Larry Aldrich used the term in 1969 to define th...

The Importance of Color in the Art of Hans Hofmann

It would be difficult to name a more influential 20th Century painter than Hans Hofmann. The biographies of hundreds of important artists, teachers and innovators would not be complete without men...

What is Gestural Abstraction in Painting ?

The phrase gestural abstraction refers to a way of making art. It is a process, not a movement. With an abstract gestural painting, the point is not what gets painted. The point is how it gets pai...

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...

How Action Painting Changed Art

If the phrase “action painting” sounds confusing, that could be because it seems to contain a redundancy. Painting implies action. Can there be inaction paintings? But neither the fact that painti...

Dynamic Sequences of Giacomo Balla - The Abstract in Futurism

The martial artist Bruce Lee used to instruct his students to learn everything, keep what’s useful and then throw away the rest. This is precisely what abstract artists have done with the legacy o...

Spontaneous, Ecstatic and Free: A Primer on Lyrical Abstraction

Before discussing what Lyrical Abstraction is, and what it means to art lovers and collectors, we should give due respect to the most persnickety among us by stating that the origin of the term is...

What Makes Someone Choose a Piece of Art?

Art is uniquely personal, not only to the artist who creates it, but also to the person viewing it. Nowhere is this truer than with abstract art. Art is an extension - a reflection of - the viewer...