Edward Marecak On Sale
Mid-20th Century Abstract Abstract Paintings
Paper, Acrylic, Watercolor
1960s American Modern Abstract Paintings
Canvas, Oil
Mid-20th Century Abstract Abstract Paintings
Paper, Crayon, Acrylic
1960s Abstract Mixed Media
Pastel, Acrylic
1960s American Modern Portrait Paintings
Canvas, Oil
1980s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Oil
Edward MarecakAdam and Eve, 1980s Abstract Figurative Painting, Vertical Oil Painting, 30 x 48, 1983
1980s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Oil
20th Century Abstract Mixed Media
Crayon, Acrylic
20th Century Abstract Mixed Media
Ink, Acrylic
1950s Abstract Portrait Paintings
Oil, Board
Edward MarecakFertility Goddesses, Abstract Nude Figures 1950s Oil Painting, Pink, Blue, Green, 1950
1960s Abstract Figurative Paintings
Oil, Canvas
Edward MarecakSybils Telling Cosmic Jokes On Mankind, Framed Figurative Abstract Oil Painting, 1960s
20th Century Abstract Abstract Paintings
Canvas, Oil
Edward MarecakThe Four Winter Months, Semi-Abstract Figure Oil Painting, Red Black Orange Blue, 1985
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21st Century and Contemporary Portuguese Modern Sofas
Velvet, Walnut
2010s American Mid-Century Modern Wall Lights and Sconces
Brass, Bronze, Enamel, Nickel
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Antique Mid-19th Century English High Victorian Taxidermy
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2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Canvas, Acrylic
2010s Modern Still-life Paintings
Board, Oil
1970s American Impressionist Still-life Paintings
Oil, Canvas
2010s French Art Deco Chandeliers and Pendants
Brass
2010s Belgian Modern Sofas
Linen
21st Century and Contemporary Mid-Century Modern Dining Room Tables
Marble, Aluminum
Mid-20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Marble
Mid-20th Century Impressionist Still-life Paintings
Oil
Mid-20th Century Abstract Geometric Abstract Paintings
Canvas, Oil
Charles Stewart, 1922-2011The Warrior and the Star Precedes the Sun (Hopi Ceremony, Oraibe, Arizona)
20th Century Impressionist Still-life Paintings
Oil
Antique Late 19th Century French Louis XVI Benches
Upholstery, Wood
Artist Comments
"I got inspired to paint something related to the question, 'Is it luck or fate?'" says artist Jose H. Alvarenga. "As a representation of luck, I painted the ho...
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Oil
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1960s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Oil
1980s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Oil
1970s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Oil
Mid-20th Century Abstract Abstract Paintings
Oil, Masonite
1980s Abstract Portrait Paintings
Oil
1960s Abstract Figurative Paintings
Canvas, Oil
Mid-20th Century Abstract Abstract Paintings
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20th Century Abstract Figurative Paintings
Oil, Board
20th Century Abstract Abstract Paintings
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Edward Marecak was an American painter who was born in 1919. Growing up in the farming community of Brunswick, Ohio, he showed early artistic promise, hired by the National Youth Administration to document historic barns. In 1946, Marecak came to the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center for a year and after a semester interlude at Cranbrook returned to study lithography with Lawrence Barrett. There he also met his future wife and sometime collaborator, ceramicist Theresa Madonna Fortin. Given the opportunity to teach a summer course at the University of Colorado, he decided to obtain a teaching certificate at the University of Denver and subsequently embarked on his 25-year career in the Denver Public School system. Rather than pursue fame, Edward Marecak directed his zeal toward fostering younger generations in the principles of art as well as his simple philosophies. Moreover, his teaching salary allowed him to ply his prodigious talent at whatever he pleased, instead of bending to the dictates of trends and sales. Having inherited his faith in education from his Slovakian immigrant parents, Marecak could add the shaping of lives to his mastery of art forms, including lithographs, monoprints, drawings, hooked rugs, ceramics, paintings, wood sculptures, stained-glass windows and jewelry. While exhibiting in his lifetime, he was, in his wife’s words, “his own greatest collector”, but shows and his popularity at the Kirkland Museum have positioned Marecak posthumously among Colorado’s pre-eminent modernists. As a child, Marecak was enthralled by the Carpathian tales of magic and supernatural beings told by his grandmother. As with other artists with roots in Eastern Europe, his artistic turn to folk tradition would free him from learned practices of perspective and modeling in favor of flat patterns within patterns and brilliant, throbbing color. While others ventured further into abstraction, Marecak stylized figurative elements into crowded compositions that appeared like a mosaic or stained glass. As he matured, he could declare, “I am still very much a Byzantine designer and my joy with what color can do grows all the time”. The traceries of strong outlines and bold shapes provide compartments for vibrant colors, contrasts and rough textures that can scarcely be contained. The Kirkland Museum staged a retrospective of Edward and Donna Marecak in 2007.
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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Finding the Right abstract-paintings for You
Bring audacious experiments with color and textures to your living room, dining room or home office. Abstract paintings, large or small, will stand out in your space, encouraging conversation and introducing a museum-like atmosphere that’s welcoming and conducive to creating memorable gatherings.
Abstract art has origins in 19th-century Europe, but it came into its own as a significant movement during the 20th century. Early practitioners of abstraction included Wassily Kandinsky, although painters were exploring nonfigurative art prior to the influential Russian artist’s efforts, which were inspired by music and religion. Abstract painters endeavored to create works that didn’t focus on the outside world’s conventional subjects, and even when artists depicted realistic subjects, they worked in an abstract mode to do so.
In 1940s-era New York City, a group of painters working in the abstract mode created radical work that looked to European avant-garde artists as well as to the art of ancient cultures, prioritizing improvisation, immediacy and direct personal expression. While they were never formally affiliated with one another, we know them today as Abstract Expressionists.
The male contingent of the Abstract Expressionists, which includes Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning and Robert Motherwell, is frequently cited in discussing leading figures of this internationally influential postwar art movement. However, the women of Abstract Expressionism, such as Helen Frankenthaler, Lee Krasner, Joan Mitchell and others, were equally involved in the art world of the time. Sexism, family obligations and societal pressures contributed to a long history of their being overlooked, but the female Abstract Expressionists experimented vigorously, developed their own style and produced significant bodies of work.
Draw your guests into abstract oil paintings across different eras and countries of origin. On 1stDibs, you’ll find an expansive range of abstract paintings along with a guide on how to arrange your wonderful new wall art.
If you’re working with a small living space, a colorful, oversize work can create depth in a given room, but there isn’t any need to overwhelm your interior with a sprawling pièce de résistance. Colorful abstractions of any size can pop against a white wall in your living room, but if you’re working with a colored backdrop, you may wish to stick to colors that complement the decor that is already in the space. Alternatively, let your painting make a statement on its own, regardless of its surroundings, or group it, gallery-style, with other works.