The Journal
Journal — Abstract Art & Painting Insights
Essays on abstract painting, technique and the artist's practice — new articles regularly.
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Kinetic Art: Definition, History and How It Differs from Op Art
Sculptures that move, canvases that seem to vibrate as you look at them: kinetic art reshaped geometric abstraction in the 1950s and 60s, driven by Latin American artists who settled in Paris. Definition, history and the difference with Op Art, told by a geometric painter who inherited the same colour tradition.
Acrylic or Oil Paint: Which Medium Suits Abstract Art?
Acrylic or oil? For abstract painting, the choice of medium changes almost everything — drying speed, palette-knife texture, how a canvas ages on a wall. A working painter's honest comparison, from a studio that works in acrylic alone.
Colour Theory in Abstract Painting: How to Build a Palette That Works
"How do you choose your colours?" It's the question that comes up most often, right after the one about price. Contrast, harmony, temperature: here's how I build a palette that holds together, canvas after canvas.
How to Pair an Abstract Painting with Your Home Decor: Size, Colour and Placement
Size, colour, hanging height, light: practical, concrete advice for choosing and hanging an abstract painting at home, from living room to bedroom, from my studio in the Tarn.
How to Choose an Abstract Painting for Your Interior Design
"Will this canvas work with my walls?" Size, colour and light: here, from the perspective of an artist who has sold her canvases directly since 2021, is how to pair an abstract painting with a room without neutralising it.
Abstract or Figurative Painting: How to Tell the Styles Apart (and What Monochrome Means)
A face half-emerges, a shape slips away, a canvas holds only one colour: abstract, figurative, semi-figurative, monochrome — I help you tell these styles apart from my studio, where I paint across all three registers.
Latin American Geometric Abstraction: History, Movements and Colour
Constructive universalism, Madí, concretismo, neo-concretism: where does the geometric abstraction born in Uruguay, Argentina and Brazil actually come from? Trained between Buenos Aires and São Paulo, I trace a history that still runs through my own painting.