by Antonio Basso
Tag Archives: abstract art paintings
New abstract painting collection. Should I thank the muses? Yes. After quite some time around my already finished Space Occupancies abstract art series, I´ve just started a new collection of abstract paintings that promises to be hyper challenging. I hope the muses will still be around to keep offering me their creative generosity! By the way, I recommend you to watch this TED talk where writer Elisabeth Gilbert talks about …Read More
Some abstract paintings are more “complicated” than others. The following story is about one of my latest abstract paintings and the +/- eight months it has taken me to finished it. Space Occupancy #20 has been pretty tough to create. This fact gives it a special significance and value, at least from an artist point of view… Eight months ago, I bought a fabulous 130×190 cms burlap canvas to paint …Read More
Comparing Mark Rothko paintings with Hiroshi Sugimoto´s photography. London´s Pace Gallery a leading contemporary art gallery is exhibiting Mark Rothko paintings and Hiroshi Sugimoto´s seascapes. The abstract paintings and landscape photographies exhibited are worldwide considered as masterpieces. As you may already know, Rothko said that his colorful abstract paintings represented men´s inner and mainly desperate, sad, “depressive” moods. It all had to do with men´s existance self pain. He was …Read More
Buy fine art online at Artsia. The artist-buyer relationship got complicated after the era of commissioned works came to a close. Once artists moved from structured portraiture and landscapes into realms of their own inspiration, buyers had to physically move from gallery to gallery to find what they were looking for. The introduction of the internet seemed to offer a solution, but the “mega websites” that have sprung up since …Read More
New abstract painting by Antonio Basso. Some of my abstract art collectors and readers (to whom I dedicate this article) tell me they enjoy when I write about a new abstract painting explaining the whole creative process. This post shows you the process of one of my latest abstract paintings that belongs to the series Space Occupancies (find more info about the origen of this abstract series in the following …Read More