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Celebrating Female Abstract Art!

While the contribution of female abstract artists was pivotal to the abstract art, their work was notoriously undervalued and lacked the recognition indisputably received by their male counterpart...

Your Best Buy This Week - Art by American Abstract Artists!

The recently unpretentious opening of Uncharted: American Abstraction in the Information Age at Hofstra University Museum of Art, a group show featuring 8 members of the American Abstract Artists...

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...

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 ...

Three Chinese Artists Wed the East with the West in New York

A revelatory exhibition of recent Chinese abstract art is currently on view at Boers-Li Gallery in New York. Featuring the work of three artists—Wu Dayu, Yu Youhan, and Zhang Wei—Brush and Beyond ...

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...

What is Hidden Inside an Abstract Design of a Painting

We have written before about the elements of art, such as line, color, texture, etc. Design principles are what we use to describe the ways those elements collaborate within a visual composition. ...

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...

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...

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...

The Psychology of Colors - Why Certain Colors Appeal?

Colour is able to influence our state of well-being, how we feel and how we enjoy life. Although much of the appreciation and perception of colours may of course be dependent on personal experienc...