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Lee Seung Jio and The Origin of Nucleus

In addition to boasting one of the most effective COVID-19 responses on the planet, South Korea is also currently home to one of the most fascinating abstract art exhibitions of the summer: Lee Se...

Ready, Set, Paint! Performative Painting from IdeelArt

When defining action painting in 1952, art critic Harold Rosenberg demarcated the emerging movement through re-interpretation of canvas not as a picture but as an event. American action painters n...

6 Important South Asian Female Abstract Artists

Yet another museum exhibition sidelined by the COVID-19 Pandemic is Fault Lines: Contemporary Abstraction by Artists from South Asia, which opened at the Philadelphia Museum of Art in early spring...

Otto Freundlich - A Revelation of Abstraction

The year was 1912. At age 34, the still relatively young Otto Freundlich, who had only recently committed himself to becoming an artist, had reason to celebrate. He had just sold a major new work ...

Here's Some Soothing Grey Abstract Art For Your Wall

Falling between two absolutes - black and white - grey is nothing less but perfect neutral. Its complexity is deeply entrenched in the balance it embodies and its intermediate essence. Being expel...

Pat Passlof - Six Decades of Important Art

Pat Passlof gave me one of the most significant gifts an artist can bestow upon an art viewer, besides the gift of pure sensorial pleasure: she convinced me to question my own taste. My first enco...

Browsing the Artworks of the Digital Abstract Art Realm

The rapid development in digital technology had a profound impact on all aspects of our existence and art could hardly be spared of its disruptive influence. Today’s art emerges through the click ...

José Parlá's Abstract Love Letter To New York City

José Parlá is quickly becoming one of the most beloved public artists in the world. His first public mural, unveiled early in 2011, graced an interior wall of a condominium development in Toronto....

Enrich Your Home With a Large Abstract Painting!

Art may come in all sizes, but abstract art comes large. Jackson Pollock, Barnett Newman, and Mark Rothko - the progenitors of large canvases - with their unprecedented large-sized paintings put a...

Abstraction is in the Physical - Jules Olitski

The career of the Ukrainian-American artist Jules Olitski (1922 – 2007) reminds us that art is not a fixed human endeavor, which has to be done the same way by every practitioner, like, say, flyin...

The Most Influential Living African American Abstract Artists

African American abstract artists - especially those descended from slaves - face continual pressure, from both inside and outside, to make their identity a central part of their work. This pressu...

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...

Art Beyond Mexican Muralism - Manuel Felguérez Barra

Mexican artist Manuel Felguérez Barra has died at age 91 - one of nearly half a million members of the human family whose lives have so far been taken by COVID-19. A legend, whose abstract paintin...

Contemporary Gestural Abstraction At Your Fingertips

Unpremeditated spontaneity and unconstrained freedom most distinctly captured in the gestural abstraction matured along with the artist's fervent quest for freedom, authentic self, and a myriad of...

Eva LeWitt - Harmonizing Color, Matter, Space

For the past few years, Eva LeWitt has been delighting a growing fan base with her completely fresh, lively and luminous sculptures. The first encounter many viewers had with her work was in her s...

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...

The Art of Christo and Jeanne-Claude, Monumental in Every Way

Christo and Jeanne-Claude were the kind of artists you could study your entire lifetime and never grow tired. Their life together was filled with love, art, and incredible planning: three insepara...

Centre Pompidou Celebrates Henri Matisse’s 150th Birthday

In 1971, the French poet Louis Aragon published an unprecedented work of literature titled Henri Matisse, which Aragon described as a novel. It more closely resembles a loose amalgam of memoir, po...

Original Abstract Ink Art You Shouldn't Miss

The ink art has been around for millennia - from its uncouth and scanty Greek beginnings to the most sophisticated artworks created during Tang and Song dynasties in China and followed by the Muro...

On Abstract Illusionism - Taking Reality Out Of Illusion

Thanks to the spread of COVID-19, the art field has entered a strange time of extreme flatness as every exhibition in the world is re-imagined in digital form. That makes this the perfect time to ...

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...

Semiabstractions with a Soul - The Legacy of Zarina Hashmi

Indian-American artist Zarina Hashmi, who preferred to simply be called Zarina, has died at age 82. Zarina has been described as a semi-abstract artist, a label that suggests the liminal zone her ...

Less Is More! Collect Your Minimal Abstract Art Here

Less is more, a popular aphorism by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, not only succinctly captured the essence of emerging minimalism, but inspired the movement that continues to evolve in a number of aes...

A New Book Celebrates Alice Trumbull Mason, Pioneer of American Abstraction

Alice Trumbull Mason was a rarity in the art field: a die hard practitioner motivated entirely by the desire to learn. Mason died in 1971, at age 67, leaving behind hundreds of paintings and print...

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...

Callum Innes' Painting and Unpainting

Scottish painter Callum Innes is an ideal artist for us to pay attention to during our current, shall we say, apocalyptic time. After all, the word apocalypse, in the original Greek, only means to...

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 ...

6 Online Exhibitions of Abstract Art To See Right Now

The art field has had to quickly shift to an online model in response to COVID-19. The downside is that any art institution unable, or unwilling, to make the shift could cease to be relevant, or c...

Buy The Very Best Of European Abstract Art Today

From its beginnings in the 1900s, abstract art was a genuinely European phenomenon that heralded profuse possibilities that emerged from a rejection of representation as a passive mirroring of thi...

Farewell to Siri Berg

Swedish American abstract artist Siri Berg, a member of American Abstract Artists whose work is in the collection of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, among other institutions, has died in New Yor...

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...

Charlotte Park, An Abstract Artist To Know

I find familiar things in the work of Charlotte Park. I see in her paintings an almost boundless anxiety and searching, replaced in certain moments by a quietude or stillness, but always confident...

Brighten Up Your Quarantine With Some Colorful Abstract Art!

The COVID-19 outbreak is changing the world and disrupting our lives in the most unprecedented way. Many countries around the globe introduced quarantine measures to prevent further spread of COVI...

4 Documentaries and 1 Movie on Abstract Art and Artists You Can Watch Now

Are you desperate for fresh viewing options to make COVID-19 self-isolation more tolerable? Instead of putting sit-coms on auto-play or sitting in front of the news all night, why not watch some o...

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...

When Romare Bearden Went Abstract

If, like a lot of people, you missed out on seeing Abstract Romare Bearden at DC Moore Gallery in New York this winter thanks to the appearance of COVID-19, fear not: an even larger exhibition, ti...

Abstract Watercolor Art You Simply Can't Miss Out On!

Adored for its unparalleled qualities - its unique translucency, impermanence, and vibrancy - watercolor art was for long short of the recognition or fame reserved for techniques such as oil paint...

7 Books on Female Abstract Artists To Read While in Self-Isolation

In times like this I consider myself lucky. I obsessively acquire art books from exhibitions and estate sales, so even when cooped up inside for weeks, or months, I at least have plenty to read. M...

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...

The Unpredictable, Nature-Inspired Abstractions of Vivian Suter

For the second time in her life, Guatemala-based artist Vivian Suter is becoming one of the most buzzed about abstract painters in the world. Following a breakout appearance in documenta 14, score...

Why Small Paintings Can Make a Big Impression on Your Abstract Art Collection

The trend of large, loud and largely unsellable paintings, dubbed festival art by an American art critic Peter Schjeldahl, dominated art fairs for two decades - stretching throughout the 90s to ea...

How JMW Turner Influenced Abstract Art

Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775–1851) was considered one of the most famous painters in Europe when he died. Introspective and experimental, he pushed himself far beyond his contemporaries. Co...

Abstract Art for Sale

IdeelArt offers a curated selection of 3000+ original Abstract Art artworks from some of the greatest abstract artists in the world, including paintings, photography, drawings, and limited editions.

You'll Simply Love These Abstract Art Prints For Sale!

A centuries-old process of creating artwork by printing found itself at the forefront of contemporary art as horizons of the visual reflected the cascading transformations of human experience that...

Inside Donald Judd's MoMA Blockbuster

Though he passed away in 1994, Donald Judd remains one of the most influential American artists ever. This spring, we will have a chance to reconsider his legacy thanks to the retrospective Judd, ...

Fan of Red? This Abstract Art Is For You!

Red is the first color humans mastered, fabricated, reproduced, and broke into different shades, claims Michel Pastoureau in his seminal Red: The History of a Color. From our Paleolithic ancestors...

The Content and Emotion in the Art of Grace Hartigan

Grace Hartigan (1922 – 2008) has not been treated well by the self-appointed writers of art history. Throughout her career she was misunderstood and mislabeled, excluded from the movement she love...

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...