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Best abstract art: originals and prints to heighten your home

Source: Helen Frankenthaler Foundation

A dramatic departure from realism, abstract art champions feeling over accuracy. Expressive brushstrokes, unexpected colour palettes and geometric structures form the foundation of the highly emotional genre, made famous by names such as Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko and Wassily Kandinsky. 

Abstract art can be near-impossible to comprehend. Luckily, it doesn't ask to be. Art tends to be inseparable from its socio-political and historical context, yet abstract art favours non-objective form, prioritising raw emotion over all else.

The modern medium concerns itself with simplicity and spirituality, acting on instinct rather than rationality. Consider the famed drip technique of Jackson Pollock and Helen Frankenthaler, which functions entirely on pure

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