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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...

How Sonya Rapoport Used Abstraction to Pioneer Computer Art

Sonya Rapoport is having a moment. Or more accurately, since the Berkeley, California-based artist passed away in 2015, the immense artistic legacy she left behind is having a moment. Following ma...

Gagosian Paris Gathers Artists Who Create Art Blanc sur Blanc

An exhibition at Gagosian Paris titled Blanc sur Blanc (White on White) has once again ignited the timeless debate about the validity of all-white art. This conversation goes back at least as far ...

Ten Black and White Abstract Pieces to Add to Your Collection

From Malevich’s pure geometric forms devoid of color to Soulages, the master of noir -- whose retrospective is currently on at the Louvre in celebration of his 100th birthday, abstract art explore...

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...

Four Finalists Win the Turner Prize

For the first time ever last year, the Turner Prize had four winners. Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Helen Cammock, Oscar Murillo and Tai Shani were all hailed as the 2019 winners. Four Finalists Win the Tu...

The Languages of Oil Painting

Oil paints are created by mixing dry pigments with a medium of “drying oil,” such as linseed oil or walnut oil, which binds the pigments, allowing them to be applied to a surface while wet where t...

How Piero Dorazio Brought Abstraction to Italy

Once again today we find ourselves in a time when the art field seems dominated by politically relevant art. As such, an age old question is again being debated: is abstract art inherently politic...

Light, Space and Abstraction in the Work of Santiago Calatrava

Twice I have had the pleasure of seeing the work of Spanish architect Santiago Calatrava in person. The first time was the Milwaukee Art Museum. The city of Milwaukee takes its name from a native ...

Agnes Pelton, The Unsung Visionary Painter of the Sublime

A two-year, traveling retrospective of the work of Agnes Pelton will soon open at the Whitney Museum of American Art, re-introducing contemporary New Yorkers to an esoteric abstract artist who onc...

Give the Gift of Abstract Art This Christmas!

As the premier online gallerists for contemporary abstraction, we at IdeelArt are passionate about the meaning and beauty to be found in abstract art. It is an honor for us to be able to represent...

Mnuchin Gallery Thinks It's Time You Heard About Mary Lovelace O'Neal

Mnuchin Gallery in New York recently announced it will present Chasing Down the Image, a solo exhibition tracing the entire career of Mary Lovelace O’Neal, in early 2020. This is great news for fa...

One (More) Word About Maurizio Cattelan’s “Comedian”

In the name of abstract art I say, “Thank you, Maurizio Cattelan. And bravo!” An Italian artist known for making hyper-realistic artworks, Cattelan has received ample scorn of late from critics, j...

7 Times Abstract Art and Artists Were Featured on US Stamps

The United States has issued thousands of postage stamps over the course of its history. Hundreds have featured images of important artists and artworks, and a respectable number of those US stamp...

Remembering Emilio Vedova, a leader of Arte Informale

This winter in Milan, Italy, the Palazzo Reale will host an exhibition celebrating what would have been the 100th birthday of the Italian abstract painter Emilio Vedova, who died in 2006. Born in ...

Finding Contemporary Insights in the Art of Leon Polk Smith

In the 1940s, the American artist Leon Polk Smith pioneered a unique abstract visual language that added curvilinear properties to the flattened planes and simplified geometry of Neoplasticism. An...

The Most Important Collection of Latin American Abstract Art Opens at MoMA

The Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros (CPPC) has become recognized as the largest and most influential collection of Latin American abstract art in the world. In 2016, its founder Patricia Phe...

Can MIT's Latest Blackest Black End an Artist Feud?

The race towards total blackness has hit another milestone: in collaboration with the MIT Center for Art, Science and Technology, German-born conceptual artist Diemut Strebe has created the blacke...

Female Abstract Artists Finally Get in The Much-Overdue Spotlight

The Katonah Museum of Art in New York recently spotlighted overlooked female abstract artists from the past in an exhibition titled Sparkling Amazons: Abstract Expressionist Women of the 9th St. S...

Abstraction and Arte Povera Through The Spirit of Giuseppe Penone’s Lymph Matrix

Visitors to the Palais d’Iéna in Paris during the Foire Internationale d'Art Contemporain (FIAC) 2019 received a rare treat: the installation of Matrice di Linfa (Lymph Matrix), a 40-meter-long bi...

The Lightness and Transparency of Gina Werfel

In a 2013 interview in the Huffington Post, Gina Werfel and her husband Hearne Pardee, both lifelong painters and longtime teachers at UC Davis, were asked where their practices intersected and wh...

A World of Beauty, Science and Visual Delights-Takis On Tour

It is rare that an art exhibition gives me chills, yet it happened numerous times as I toured Takis: Sculptor of Magnetism, Light and Sound at the Tate Modern. Knowing little about the artist befo...

Behind the Scenes of Maison Matisse, Soon To Be Opened in Paris

It has been nearly 65 years since Henri Matisse died: sixty-five years since this artist who spent his career committed to the expression of beauty created anything new. This year would also have ...

Steven Parrino, The Bad Boy of the 1980s Abstract Art

The artist Steven Parrino never made a living off of his art. He died in 2005, so you could be forgiven for thinking recent press reports that Parrino is “enjoying an art market renaissance” are a...

Artist in Spotlight - Cyril Lancelin

French artist Cyril Lancelin makes hybrid sculptures that might make a person question whether there is really any difference between art, architecture and toys. Lancelin is a specialist in specta...

Pierre Soulages Celebrates His 100 Birthday at The Louvre

Born on Christmas Eve in Rodez, a small town in the South of France, the French abstract painter Pierre Soulages has turned out to be a very special gift to the world. Indeed, The Musée du Louvre ...

Sennelier – Art and Invention in One of the Oldest Art Supply Stores in Europe

Have you ever stood in front of a masterpiece and wondered about the origin of its parts—the canvas, the stretcher bars, or the paint? The Sennelier art store in Paris has been selling high qualit...

Hans Hartung's Triumphant Return to Paris, Courtesy MAM

On 11 October 2019, the Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris (MAM) will re-open, following a year-long renovation, with Hans Hartung: La fabrique du geste, a large-scale retrospective tracing the entire c...

How Ken Kelleher Digitally Reimagines Public Spaces with Abstract Art

Ken Kelleher is one of the most misunderstood artists of our time. Most people who claim to be fans of his work do not even seem to know exactly what it is that he does. Trained as a sculptor at A...

A Word on the 100 Untitled Works in Mill Aluminum by Donald Judd

Few contemporary art destinations are more notable than Marfa, Texas. Though some complain that the mecca of Modernist asceticism has lately become more of a laboratory of Post-Modern avarice, at ...

Remembering Palestinian Abstract Artist Kamal Boullata

Beloved Palestinian artist and writer Kamal Boullata is dead at age 77. Boullata passed away on 6 August 2019 in Berlin, where he was a resident fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies. Boull...

Bernar Venet's Arc Majeur To Become World's Tallest Work of Public Art

If you drive the E411 in Belgium between Luxembourg and Namur in the coming weeks, you might notice a fantastical form rising up from the horizon. “L'Arc Majeur,” the latest work by French sculpto...

Legendary Kinetic and Op Artist Carlos Cruz-Diez Dies at 95

Carlos Cruz-Diez (b. 1923), an artist of the people, has died. An obituary posted on his official website reads, “It is with deep sadness that we announce the death of our beloved father, grandfat...

Robert De Niro Sr., Between European Modernism and Abstract Expressionism

You have likely heard the name Robert De Niro before—the two-time Academy Award winning actor has starred in 53 motion pictures. But you might not realize the connection De Niro has to some of the...

Inside the Reichstag, Gerhard Richter's Birkenau Tells of the Holocaust Horrors

This year marks the 20th anniversary of the re-opening of the Reichstag, the building that houses the Bundestag, or German federal parliament. It also marks the second anniversary of the arrival o...

The Splendor of Alberto Burri's Grand Cretto of Gibellina

This year marks the 35th anniversary of the start of construction on the Grand Cretto, by Alberto Burri, a sacred work of land art built on the site of a lost Sicilian town. Nowhere in the history...

The Persistence of Form in The Art Of Jiro Yoshihara

This summer, Fergus McCaffrey gallery in Tokyo is reviving interest in the work of Gutai Group founder Jiro Yoshihara. Jiro Yoshihara: The Persistence of Form focuses on a specialized aspect of hi...

Farewell to Eberhard Havekost

On 6 June, the German Press Agency (dpa) reported the death of German painter Eberhard Havekost at age 52. His gallerist, Frank Lehmann, owner of Galerie Gebr. Lehmann, was quoted as saying he was...

The Story of Atomium, A Brussels Gem That Almost Wasn't

More than 60 years after it was built, the Atomium in Brussels has become one of the most beloved buildings in Europe. When it was first constructed, however, critics panned it as a disgrace. A st...

A Long-Overdue Artist Spotlight on Marlow Moss

Marlow Moss was a master of constructivist art, yet few today know her name. That could be because Moss was more than just a constructivist; she was a female, lesbian, British constructivist in a ...

Richard Kalina Curates an Abstract Art Show at DC Moore Gallery

Richard Kalina is easily one of the most informed experts on contemporary art in America today. He has taught at Fordham University, Yale and Bennington College; is an influential art critic with ...

8 Works of Abstract Public Art That Can Be Found in Chicago

We recently ran a story about “Nuclear Energy,” a.k.a. “Atom Piece” (1964–66), a work of abstract public art by British artist Henry Moore, which is installed on the campus of the University of Ch...

Pier Paolo Calzolari and an (Abstract) Art that Happens

Pier Paolo Calzolari has returned to Naples for the first time in more than 40 years, with a grand survey of his entire career at The Museo d'Arte Contemporanea Donnaregina (a.k.a. Museo MADRE). T...

Meet an Italian Spatialist Who is Not Lucio Fontana

Next month in London, a survey of more than 40 works will trace the entire career of Italian artist Paolo Scheggi (1940 – 1971). Paolo Scheggi: In Depth at the Estorick Collection of Modern Italia...

Bernard Frize, Without Remorse at Centre Pompidou

Bernard Frize has returned to Paris this summer for his first major exhibitions there in 15 years. Bernard Frize—Without Remorse is on view until 26 August at the Centre Pompidou, and Bernard Friz...

How Henry Moore Portrayed Nuclear Energy Through Sculpture

As you stroll along South Ellis Avenue on the bucolic campus of the University of Chicago, you come upon an unusual abstract form protruding from a cement plaza next to The Joe and Rika Mansueto L...

Black Abstract Artists from the Thelma and Bert Ollie Memorial Collection Come to Saint Louis

This autumn, the Saint Louis Art Museum will expand the contemporary understanding of abstract art with an exhibition highlighting the contributions of Black abstract artists. The Shape of Abstrac...