Sam Francis Monotype
1980s More Prints
Ink, Oil, Watercolor, Handmade Paper, Pigment, Monotype
Vintage 1980s American Contemporary Art
Paint, Paper
1990s Abstract Abstract Prints
Etching, Aquatint, Monotype
1970s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Prints
Offset, Lithograph
1980s Abstract Abstract Prints
Lithograph
1980s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Prints
Aquatint, Etching
1990s Abstract Mixed Media
Paper, Acrylic
1980s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Paper, Acrylic
1980s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Prints
Silk, Paper, Ink, Mixed Media, Lithograph, Offset, Board
Early 2000s Abstract Expressionist More Art
Ceramic, Mixed Media, Screen
20th Century Abstract Prints and Multiples
Monotype, Screen
1980s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Prints
Monotype
1980s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Prints
Ink, Oil, Watercolor, Handmade Paper, Pigment, Monotype
1970s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Prints
Pencil, Lithograph
1980s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Prints
Lithograph, Pencil
1970s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Prints
Lithograph
1980s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Prints
Lithograph, Offset, Pencil
1960s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Prints
Lithograph, Pencil
1960s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Prints
Lithograph, Pencil
1960s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Prints
Lithograph, Pencil
1970s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Prints
Lithograph
1980s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Prints
Lithograph
1980s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Prints
Lithograph
1980s Abstract Abstract Prints
Lithograph
1980s Abstract Expressionist Mixed Media
Mixed Media, Handmade Paper, Monoprint
1990s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Monotype
1990s Contemporary Abstract Prints
Monotype
1980s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Monoprint, Monotype
1980s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Oil, Mixed Media, Monotype
1980s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Paint, Mixed Media, Monotype
1990s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Paint, Mixed Media, Monotype
1980s Pop Art Figurative Paintings
Monoprint, Monotype
1980s Pop Art Figurative Paintings
Monoprint, Monotype
1990s Abstract Expressionist Mixed Media
Monoprint, Monotype
1990s Abstract Expressionist Mixed Media
Monoprint, Monotype
1980s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Mixed Media, Oil, Monotype
1980s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Mixed Media, Oil, Monotype
1980s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Acrylic, Archival Paper
1980s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Paper, Acrylic
1980s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Canvas, Oil
1980s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Acrylic, Archival Paper
1980s Abstract Expressionist Mixed Media
Acrylic, Gouache, Archival Paper
1980s Abstract Expressionist Mixed Media
Archival Paper, Acrylic, Gouache
20th Century Abstract Expressionist Abstract Prints
Paper
Mid-20th Century Abstract Expressionist Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Monotype
1970s Abstract Abstract Prints
Aquatint
20th Century Abstract Mixed Media
1980s Abstract Mixed Media
Monotype
Late 20th Century Abstract Abstract Prints
Monotype
1980s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Monotype
1980s Abstract Expressionist Mixed Media
Ink, Handmade Paper, Monotype
1980s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Prints
Oil, Watercolor, Handmade Paper, Pigment, Monotype
1980s Abstract Abstract Prints
Etching, Aquatint, Monoprint, Monotype
Late 20th Century Abstract Expressionist Abstract Prints
Oil, Watercolor, Handmade Paper, Pigment, Monotype
20th Century Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Monotype
1970s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Prints
Monotype
1980s Abstract Abstract Prints
Etching, Aquatint, Monoprint, Monotype
1970s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Prints
Ink, Oil, Watercolor, Handmade Paper, Pigment, Monotype
1980s Abstract Expressionist Mixed Media
Mixed Media, Handmade Paper, Monoprint
1980s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Paint, Mixed Media, Monotype
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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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