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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...

Geta Bratescu - 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 glo...

18 Contemporary Abstract Artists Open Up About Their Lineage

It is dangerous and impossible to teach art. Yet it is also imperative. For art to exist, artists must learn how to become whatever it is that they are going to become, and how to create whatever ...

A Cocktail of Abstract Thoughts in Paris

October definitely was the month of contemporary and modern art in Paris. In addition to FIAC (International Contemporary Art Fair, the most famous event) about 30 significant other exhibitions an...

Finding the Color-Field Heritage in Sterling Ruby Paintings

The multiple simultaneous realities of the city speak in visual bursts on its innumerable surfaces. Glitzy, rotting, rusting, ancient, new, some marked for destruction, all intermingling, building...

Meet Minimal Artists - The Masters of Purity and Reduction

Studying art movements is a bit like Alice going down the proverbial rabbit hole. The more you think you have figured out, the more still remains to be discovered. When first learning about Minima...

Less is More: Minimalism

Minimalism is an abstract art movement which emerged in America in the 1960’s, and which mostly refers to painting and sculpture. Minimalist pieces in no way attempt to represent external visual r...

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...

What is Abstraction? A Journey to Antarctica - by Pierre Auville

As the 20th Century was just dawning, explorers unveiled two new continents: Antarctica and Abstract Art. Coincidentally both terms appear to relate to each other - Ante Artica: the land before th...