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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...

Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac Pays Homage to the American Minimal Art

The legacy of American Minimal art is on view in Monumental Minimal, at the Paris Pantin location of Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac. The exhibition includes more than 20 objects created by six of the mos...

Getting the Most in the Simplest Form - Anne Truitt at Matthew Marks

A rare exhibition of paintings by Anne Truitt is currently on view at Matthew Marks Gallery in New York. Truitt (1921 – 2004) is mostly known for her sculptures, or structures as they are most oft...

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 Importance of Texture in Abstract Art

Broadly speaking there are two categories of texture in art, just as in life: rough and smooth. Both can be hard or soft, wet or dry, organic or synthetic, etc. And infinite gradations of roughnes...

Abstraction and the Use of Different Types of Line in Art

Line is one of the formal elements of art. Along with elements like color, shape, texture and space, it is something aesthetic to contemplate aside from the subjective, interpretive components of ...

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...

Carmen Herrera: Lines of Sight

Cosmologists say that when we look into outer space we look back in time. The galaxies we see through telescopes may not even exist any more. But does that matter to the light? It is here now to h...

Post-Painterly Abstraction - The Meaning and the Scope

In art historical terms, Modernism wasn’t a movement. It was more a process of art self-awareness. Rather than focusing on objective representation, Modernist painters explored what they could exp...

Abstraction and Nature in Ellsworth Kelly Paintings

When an artist becomes famous for making a particular type of work, prime examples of that type of work tend to become the most valuable pieces in the artist’s oeuvre. Perhaps that’s why so many o...

Hard-Edge Painting and the Aesthetics of Abstract Order

Would you like to climb inside of a hard-edge painting? Next time you’re in Las Vegas, go to the Cosmopolitan Hotel and Casino. At street level there’s a Starbuck’s coffee house. Walk inside of it...

The Week in Abstract Art – Life is a Cabaret

By abandoning logic and embracing the absurd the Dadaists invented so-called Anti-Art. But now we see rather than destroying art, their aesthetic contribution in fact became a monumental influence...

Minimalist Sculpture as the Pristine Contemplation of Space

Is Minimalist sculpture defined by a set of rules? Does a Minimalist sculpture’s success have to do with its own properties, or does it depend on how it interacts with its surroundings? The art cr...

Love in the Age of Medium Specificity

As art lovers, we seek ways of increasing our enjoyment of art. One reliable way we’ve found to do this is to converse with each other about the art we love, to talk about what we like, what we do...

Art Packaging

In an ever-increasing cosmopolitan and international art world, in which online platforms like IdeelArt are facilitating sales to and from all corners of the globe, artwork can travel thousands o...

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...

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...

Benefitting (From) the Arts

Art is not an allegory. When a work of art, or a particular artist's oeuvre, seems to be trying to make some metaphorical point it can be a bit of a turn off. It somehow reduces the experience of ...