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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...

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...

This Week's Pick of Artworks to Collect - Abstract Drawings!

An indelible dilemma survives our times: are drawings - and to which extent - artworks in their own right or do they belong to an exploratory and even auxiliary form as they are absorbed in larger...

Don't Feel Blue - Buy Blue Abstract Art Instead!

For most of its early history, humans were blue-blind. Homer in his evocative descriptions alluded to a wine-red sea while the ancient elucidations of natural phenomena like rainbow plainly exclud...

Abstract Photography Prints For Sale You Shouldn't Miss!

In its transgression of boundaries, abstract photography went beyond simple definitions and characterizations. Although initially rooted in realism, the photographic medium embraced the non-repres...

IdeelArt Presents Homage to the Square Exhibition Curated by Richard Caldicott

An interdisciplinary artist known for his groundbreaking series of photographic abstractions, Caldicott has long been fascinated by the multitudinous properties of the square. Some of the oldest r...

Ten Affordable Abstract Art Pieces to Get Under £1000

If you are on the lookout for exclusive and affordable abstract art, you are in the right place! IdeelArt brings quality and original abstract art from the artists' studio directly to you, seamles...

Finding the Best Art for Interior Designers

The relationship between art and interior design is complex. Every interior designer has an ongoing need for original fine art. But few fine artists embark on the creation of new work with the sta...

At Yossi Milo Gallery, A Group Show of Artists Painting with Light

On 17 January 2019, Yossi Milo Gallery in New York will open a group exhibition examining the contemporary state of Concrete Photography. Titled Painting with Light, the exhibition will include wo...

Connecting Points of Milan Houser

Czech artist Milan Houser is proving himself to be a perfect aesthetic representative of this era, in which humanity more and more seeks beauty and meaning in ambiguity. So much is known that we l...

Why Liz Nielsen’s Photography Is So Unusual

Liz Nielsen is part photographer, part conjurer. She coaxes into existence vividly colored photograms from the pitch dark confines of her analog photographic dark room. The images that emerge out ...

Sam Falls’ Abstract Shapes of Nature

Multi-disciplinary artist Sam Falls was raised in rural Vermont, one of the least populated parts of the United States. He grew up wandering his natural surroundings and marveling at the ways the ...

Light Meets Chemicals in Mariah Robertson’s Photography

The work of Mariah Robertson has been described as exciting, extreme, even explosive. One look at her large-scale photo paper roll installations and you will understand why. The work is undeniable...

At LACMA, Sarah Charlesworth Presents Doubleworld

The Pictures Generation sounds like a great name for children born today. Never before in history have so many people had immediate access to picture-taking technology, along with the ability to s...

Edward Burtynsky and Landscapes Like No Other

Canadian photographer Edward Burtynsky has been photographing the natural world for nearly four decades. He began his career in the late 1970s, photographing natural landscapes from a strictly for...

Merging Science and Photography - The Art of Fabian Oefner

Chances are you have seen the work of Swiss photographer Fabian Oefner at some point in recent years. Since he opened his professional photography studio in 2013, his magical-looking photographs c...

The Versatile Photographic Practice of Ryan Foerster

Conservation is one of the core ideas of photography. Capture a vision of reality. Do not waste time by letting it slip away. Conserve a fragment of the moment so it might be experienced after the...

Redefining Photography - The Mediums of Kate Steciw

If we were conducting an investigation into the term Post Internet Art, Kate Steciw might appear at first to be an excellent Artist of Interest. Steciw makes abstract, three-dimensional objects us...

Can We Consider Andreas Gursky an.. Abstract Photographer?

The physical world often seems like a vast and indifferent place; a fact German photographer Andreas Gursky will not let us forget. Some call Gursky a documentary photographer because of the reali...

Reflections in the Water - Barbara Vaughn Photography

One measure of the success of an abstract photograph is how easily it allows viewers to look beyond evidence of objectivity, and to open themselves up to connections with the unknown. By such a me...

When William Klein Turned to Abstraction in Photography

William Klein is considered one of the most influential photographers of the past century. His reputation comes largely from his work as a street photographer, a genre he all but invented in the 1...

The Assembled Art of Barbara Kasten

At first glance the art of Barbara Kasten may not seem subversive. Kasten builds architectonic sculptural compositions in her studio then lights and photographs them, transforming temporary, three...

How Aaron Siskind Found Abstraction on the Streets

Aaron Siskind was one of the most influential photographers of his generation. In part, that influence manifested through the various teaching positions Siskind held at some of the most prestigiou...

How Wolfgang Tillmans Used Technique to Reach Abstraction in Photography

Nothing can be fully appreciated without understanding its opposite. We appreciate warmth when we freeze. We love light when trapped in darkness. So it is no surprise that Wolfgang Tillmans, who f...

Abstract Photographers to Follow

Abstract photography has blossomed since the invention of digital cameras, especially since cameras merged with our mobile devices. Abstract photographers work in a form that demands experimentati...

Clarity of Tone and Form in Barnett Newman Paintings

The iconic zip paintings of Barnett Newman, featuring thin, luminous vertical bands surrounded by immersive fields of color, are considered some of the most emotive and powerful works of the 20th ...

Ten Unforgettable Examples of Abstract Drawing

Drawing is one of the simplest and most accessible ways to make in art. Almost anyone can do it. All it takes is a writing implement and a flat surface. Yet as simple as the medium can be, some of...

The Abstract Side of Thomas Ruff Photographs

We may complain that digital manipulation has made all photographs suspect; but even in its non-manipulated condition every photograph is only a partial truth at best. The biggest illusion photogr...

Abstraction in Photography of László Moholy-Nagy

Today, photography is ubiquitous. Cameras are imbedded in billions of electronic devices, and it is hard to imagine any subject that has not been thoroughly explored ad nauseam in photographs. But...

Defining Abstract Photography

When you read the words abstract photography how do you react? Do you perk up, fascinated to discover more about this topic? Or do you recoil, annoyed at the very thought of it? Or are you ambival...

Richard Caldicott and Luuk de Haan - Group Show “Prime Time” Archetypes of Abstraction in Photography

Photography has given us the ability to perfectly capture images of what’s visible to our eyes. But what exactly is it that our eyes see? We call it reality as though it’s fixed, unquestionable. B...

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...

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...

What is Drawing?

From pencil to ink, charcoal to pastel, drawings represent an important part of our offering at IdeelArt. But, what is drawing actually? Though most often associated with figurative artistic movem...

Photographing Paintings: How to Take a Good Photograph of Your Art ?

Whether you want to create prints of your work, share it online or simply keep a personal record before selling it, knowing how to take the perfect picture is vital. With photographs often being t...

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...

Today's Artists Inspired by Rothko's Color Field Painting Style

Silence is so accurate.-Mark Rothko As we seek out today’s inheritors of Mark Rothko’s iconic color field painting style, we can’t only search for work that looks similar to his. We must also purs...

Drawn In: The Use of Line in Abstract Painting

Some painters profess that when it comes to the use of drawing in their work, there are only two traditions to follow: that of Matisse or that of Cézanne. Matisse’s lines define and often contain ...

An Art Buyer's Practical Guide to Color Theory

Color is to art is like flavor is to cuisine. The range of possible manifestations of both qualities is so vast it seems infinite. We can only describe colors and flavors in terms of our experienc...

Abstraction at Art Miami 2015 - By IdeelArt

It's art week once again in Miami. The world's most esteemed artists, dealers, curators and of course collectors have descended on the city to soak in the warm, moist air and the effortlessly chic...

Richard Caldicott at 886 Geary Gallery, San Francisco - By IdeelArt

We are pleased to announce Richard Caldicott's forthcoming exhibition at 886 Geary Gallery, San Francisco. Richard Caldicott is an English artist who explores abstract photography and creates abst...