Dean Taylor Johnson
2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Canvas, Acrylic
2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Acrylic, Wood Panel
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2010s Abstract Impressionist Abstract Paintings
Oil
17th Century Old Masters Paintings
Copper
1920s American Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Board, Oil
Mid-20th Century Realist Landscape Paintings
Oil
1910s American Impressionist Landscape Prints
Etching
1960s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Oil, Canvas
Mid-20th Century Abstract Paintings
Oil
2010s Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Canvas, Oil, Cardboard
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Figurative Paintings
Canvas, Oil
Kate SalenfriendWestern Light-original modern abstract landscape oil painting-contemporary Art, 2024
21st Century and Contemporary American Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Canvas, Oil, Panel
Early 2000s Modern Figurative Paintings
Canvas, Mixed Media, Oil, Acrylic
2010s American Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Oil
2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Canvas, Paper, Oil Pastel, Mixed Media, Oil, Permanent Marker, Graphite
Late 20th Century Abstract Abstract Paintings
Acrylic, Plaster, Plywood, Mixed Media
2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Textile, Cotton Canvas, Acrylic
2010s Abstract Geometric Abstract Sculptures
Wood, Spray Paint, Vinyl
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1950s Black and White Photography
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, C Print, Archival Pigment
1950s Black and White Photography
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, C Print, Archival Pigment
20th Century Folk Art Mixed Media
Newsprint, Textile
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Abstract Sculptures
Ceramic, Wood
2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Wood Panel, Acrylic
2010s Abstract Abstract Sculptures
Ceramic, Birch, Mixed Media
2010s Abstract Abstract Sculptures
Ceramic, Stoneware, Birch
2010s Abstract Abstract Sculptures
Ceramic, Stoneware, Glaze
2010s Abstract Abstract Sculptures
Ceramic, Stoneware, Birch
2010s Abstract Abstract Sculptures
Stoneware, Birch, Ceramic
2010s Abstract Abstract Sculptures
Ceramic, Stoneware, Birch
2010s Abstract Abstract Sculptures
Stoneware, Cedar
2010s Abstract Sculptures
Ceramic, Wood
2010s Abstract Abstract Sculptures
Ceramic, Stoneware, Cedar
2010s Abstract Abstract Sculptures
Ceramic, Stoneware
2010s Abstract Abstract Sculptures
Ceramic, Birch
2010s Abstract Abstract Sculptures
Ceramic, Stoneware, Birch
2010s Abstract Abstract Sculptures
Ceramic, Stoneware, Birch
2010s Abstract Abstract Sculptures
Ceramic, Stoneware, Birch
2010s Abstract Abstract Sculptures
Ceramic, Stoneware, Birch
2010s Abstract Sculptures
Ceramic, Wood
A Close Look at abstract Art
Beginning in the early 20th century, abstract art became a leading style of modernism. Rather than portray the world in a way that represented reality, as had been the dominating style of Western art in the previous centuries, abstract paintings, prints and sculptures are marked by a shift to geometric forms, gestural shapes and experimentation with color to express ideas, subject matter and scenes.
Although abstract art flourished in the early 1900s, propelled by movements like Fauvism and Cubism, it was rooted in the 19th century. In the 1840s, J.M.W. Turner emphasized light and motion for atmospheric paintings in which concrete details were blurred, and Paul Cézanne challenged traditional expectations of perspective in the 1890s.
Some of the earliest abstract artists — Wassily Kandinsky and Hilma af Klint — expanded on these breakthroughs while using vivid colors and forms to channel spiritual concepts. Painter Piet Mondrian, a Dutch pioneer of the art movement, explored geometric abstraction partly owing to his belief in Theosophy, which is grounded in a search for higher spiritual truths and embraces philosophers of the Renaissance period and medieval mystics. Black Square, a daringly simple 1913 work by Russian artist Kazimir Malevich, was a watershed statement on creating art that was free “from the dead weight of the real world,” as he later wrote.
Surrealism in the 1920s, led by artists such as Salvador Dalí, Meret Oppenheim and others, saw painters creating abstract pieces in order to connect to the subconscious. When Abstract Expressionism emerged in New York during the mid-20th century, it similarly centered on the process of creation, in which Helen Frankenthaler’s expressive “soak-stain” technique, Jackson Pollock’s drips of paint, and Mark Rothko’s planes of color were a radical new type of abstraction.
Conceptual art, Pop art, Hard-Edge painting and many other movements offered fresh approaches to abstraction that continued into the 21st century, with major contemporary artists now exploring it, including Anish Kapoor, Mark Bradford, El Anatsui and Julie Mehretu.
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