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Few people fully appreciate how abstract art can complement their home living space. If you want to impress visitors to your home, displaying the right piece of art will do the job like nothing else. There's no need to clutter up your walls with paintings, removing all the empty space. A judicious piece of art mounted here and there though will make your bare walls so much more interesting.

The term Abstract Expressionism was first coined in 1919 in Der Sturm, a popular German art periodical. Today, most people connect it with the 1940s art movement that arose in the USA after the Second World War. Also known as the New York School, the movement boasted many famous artists, including Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko and Franz Kline.

Christmas is coming around again, and the perennial problem of finding the right gift for friends and loved ones arises. Have you considered buying artwork as a Christmas gift? Art is far more than just a stocking-filler, and is a more affordable gift idea than you might think.

A question which often pops up asks what the difference is between Modern and Contemporary Art. Our next question might be how we should define the latter? But let's take one question at a time, and address the first question before we enter into definitions.

With many people around the world enjoying increases in disposable income, there has been a sizeable uptick in art sales. Some people buy art solely as an investment, although the market can be volatile and high returns not always easy to come by.