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Lyrical Abstraction: The Art That Refuses to Be Cold

Tokyo, 1957. Georges Mathieu, barefoot, wrapped in a kimono, his long body coiled like a spring about to release, stands before an eight-metre canvas. He has been invited by Jiro Yoshihara of the G...

Very Painterly Abstract Artists: The New Alchemists

In his Heidelberg studio, Arvid Boecker (featured image) scrapes methodically across his canvas with a screen printing squeegee. Layer by layer, he builds what he calls an "archaeology of color." E...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

What Is Abstraction in Art - Definition and Examples

The concept of Abstraction tends to divide opinion and has done for many years. What does it mean? How is it art? Something so apparently difficult to understand has naturally prompted many miscon...