Lee B Anderson
20th Century North American Paintings
Acrylic
1990s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Paper, Mixed Media, Acrylic
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Water...
Charcoal, Archival Paper
1970s Abstract Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Acrylic, Masonite
Audrey E. Gabrielson1970s Feminist San Francisco Abstract Expressionist Figurative (Two Sided), 1976
2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Other Medium
1990s American Paintings
Enamel
Mid-20th Century Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Canvas, Oil
1980s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Monoprint, Monotype
2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Mixed Media
2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Mixed Media
2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Mixed Media
2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Mixed Media
Margo Margolis"Night into Day" Playful Abstract Matisse Calder Quality Blue Yellow Black White, 2022
2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Mixed Media
Margo Margolis"Overview" Playful/Sophisticated Abstract Matisse Calder Quality Turquoise Pink , 2022
2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Mixed Media
Margo Margolis"All the Greens" Playful Abstract Dark, Light, Olive Green - Orange, Red, Yellow, 2022
2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Mixed Media
Margo Margolis"Mapping the Day" Playful/Sophisticated Abstract Calder/Matisse-Like Pink/ Green, 2022
2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Mixed Media
Margo Margolis"White and Green" Playful/Sophisticated Abstract Matisse Calder Qualities Orange, 2022
2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Mixed Media
2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Mixed Media
2010s Abstract Abstract Prints
Monoprint
2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Mixed Media
2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Canvas, Mixed Media
2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Mixed Media
Margo Margolis"Red/Yellow"Large Abstraction, Red, Yellow, Black, Cream, White, Pop Sensibility, 2017
2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Mixed Media
1990s Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Charcoal, Archival Paper
2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Vinyl, Mixed Media
2010s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Other Medium, Mixed Media
2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Vinyl, Mixed Media
2010s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Other Medium
2010s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Other Medium
2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Other Medium, Mixed Media
2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Mixed Media, Other Medium
2010s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Mixed Media
2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Vinyl, Mixed Media
2010s Abstract Abstract Prints
Monoprint
2010s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Other Medium
2010s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Other Medium
2010s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Other Medium
Early 2000s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Oil
21st Century and Contemporary Mixed Media
Acrylic
Mid-20th Century Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Canvas, Oil
2010s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Other Medium
2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Other Medium
2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Vinyl
Early 2000s Abstract Abstract Prints
Lithograph
2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Mixed Media, Canvas
2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Canvas
2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Canvas
2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Canvas
2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Canvas
2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Canvas, Mixed Media
2010s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Other Medium
2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Vinyl
2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Mixed Media
2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Mixed Media
1970s American Modern Figurative Paintings
Wood Panel, Acrylic
Mid-20th Century American Modern Figurative Paintings
Oil, Masonite, Canvas
Mid-20th Century Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Canvas, Oil
1960s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Canvas, Acrylic
2010s Abstract Abstract Prints
Monoprint
2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Vinyl
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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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