Paper Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

This contemporary abstract acrylic painting on paper features intricate mark-making formations in black and white. D'Arcy’s train of thought is impulsive and random, the marks are in...

Spray paint, pencil, ink, watercolor on paper - Unframed Peter Soriano is an abstract artist who divides his time between New York City and Penobscot, Maine. Although he began his c...

Untitled 4 (Abstract painting) Pigment, silica medium and gouache on paper - Unframed. Marcy Rosenblat describes herself as having an affinity for process art, a method of art maki...

Untitled 10 (Abstract painting) Acrylic and oil on paper - Unframed Claude Tétot is a French abstract artist whose work expresses harmony in disharmony...

C. 20th Century Abstract Painting in Watercolor on Handmade Paper ( Signature on Bottom Left side ) Hertzberg

Digital creation, printed on Hahnemühle Photo Rag de 308 gr - Unframed. Fluctuating between illustration and expressionism, connecting the geometric and biomorphic worlds, Perea co...

Acrylic on paper - Unframed. The artist created this series shortly afterward arriving in NY. His interest was to see what responses the paintings evoke.

Untitled 9 (Abstract painting) Acrylic and oil on paper - Unframed Claude Tétot is a French abstract artist whose work expresses harmony in disharmony by exploring the enigmatic u...

Ambassade 47 (Abstract Expressionism painting) Watercolor on hot press paper - Unframed This work is part of the watercolour series titled Ambassade which was named after a visit a...

Gouache, pencil and collage on Japanese paper. Unframed. This gouache paint with collage on Japanese paper is a result of working with the accidental arrangements of found colored ...

Graphite on Arches Ingres paper - Unframed. Image's size: 55 x 55 cm/21.6 x 21.6" The simplest reading of Henderson’s work is that he is a painter with the sensibility of a sculpto...

This contemporary abstract acrylic painting on paper features intricate mark-making formations in black and white. D'Arcy’s train of thought is impulsive and random, the marks are in...

This contemporary abstract acrylic painting on paper features intricate mark-making formations in black and white. D'Arcy’s train of thought is impulsive and random, the marks are in...

Untitled, 2014 (Id. 382) (Abstract Drawing) Ballpoint pen and inkjet on paper. Caldicott has always had a habit of working serially; his works on paper are rapidly produced and lar...

Pigmented wax and ink on Shikoku paper. Unframed. Working on paper has always been an important part of Tracey Adams daily practice. For almost thirty years, drawing has provided a...

Untitled painting/collage #3 2022 acrylic and painted silkscreen mesh on 140 lb. cold press paper 30x22” unframed blue, green, yellow, white irregular texture surface abstract

Watercolor on hot press paper - Unframed This work is part of the watercolour series titled Ambassade which was named after a visit at Meyer's favorite hotel in Amsterdam. Melissa...

Sattva 40 (Abstract painting) Encaustic on Okawara paper - Unframed. Adams works on panel and paper, using a mixture of paint, encaustic and graphite as well as elements of monotyp...

"Talking Lines" This intuitive abstract drawing in chocolate tones is made with Chinese ink and pastel on thick kraft paper. It conveys an impulse born in the space of sensations. ...

Untitled 559 (Abstract painting) Acrylic on paper - Unframed. The technique Johnson employs is extremely rigorous, involving, as he says, “pushing paint around with palette knives ...

Acrylic and oil on paper - Unframed. Jill Moser is an American abstract artist whose work explores the intersection of “painting, writing and the animated image.” Her work is in t...

Beeswax, resin and pigment on archival paper mounted on archival board matted - Unframed. Image size: 20 cm x 31 cm, 7.75” x 12” mounted on archival board 41 cm x 51 cm, 16” x 20” m...

Screech of ice series 42 (Abstract drawing) Colored pencil and graphite on plastic paper. Unframed. Screech of Ice is a new series of drawings made by holding a bunch of pencils in...

"Talking Lines" This intuitive abstract drawing in chocolate tones is made with Chinese ink and pastel on thick kraft paper. It conveys an impulse born in the space of sensations. ...

"Talking Lines" This intuitive abstract drawing in chocolate tones is made with Chinese ink and pastel on thick kraft paper. It conveys an impulse born in the space of sensations. ...

DD2.15 (Abstract Painting) Handmade abaca paper - Framed "Framed dimensions: 18.7 x 16.7 x 1 in / 47.4 x 42.4 x 2.54 cm Artwork dimensions: 11.5 x 14.2 / 29.3 x 36.2 cm This sub...

Eckige Masse 045 (Abstract Drawing) Acrylic collage on Fabriano-pittura - Unframed In her work, Lee is responding to her emotional experiences within her physical surroundings. Col...

Organic Geometry (El Buey I) (Abstract Painting) Mixed media on paper - Unframed Artwork exclusive to IdeelArt. In this series, Michael Barringer wants to make deeply felt, poeti...

"Talking Lines" This intuitive abstract drawing in chocolate tones is made with Chinese ink and pastel on thick kraft paper. It conveys an impulse born in the space of sensations. ...

Untitled 1 (Abstract painting) Acrylic and oil on paper - Unframed Claude Tétot is a French abstract artist whose work expresses harmony in disharmony b...

Translated title: "Study for a sculpture". Watercolor on high-quality cotton paper, which is handmade in Italy. This is part of an album. The price refers to the single drawing.

Simon Samsonian (1912 - 2003) Colorful Geometric Abstraction, 1981 Oil on paper 16 x 22 inches Signed and dated lower right Provenance: Estate of the artist This survivor of the Armenian genocide wound up in a Cairo orphanage in 1927. He rose to fame as one of Egypt’s great modernists, but after moving to Long Island late in life he withdrew into anonymity. Now his compelling story is being told. Art historians are finally beginning to realize that the power of abstraction in its early years was a zeitgeist not limited to the major European centers of the avant-garde — Paris, Munich, and Moscow — but one that quickly rippled to major cities throughout the world. Within a few decades that original shock of a new vision had inspired thousands of artists from different cultures — particularly those the Middle East — whose translations were not slavish imitations of works by seminal figures like Picasso, Braque, Malevich, and Kandinsky but creative variants colored by their respective cultures. This essay focuses on an extraordinary Armenian artist, his harrowing survival of the genocide, his rise to fame in Cairo, and his creation of a unique style of abstraction. Art historians have typically formed a chorus that teaches the history of abstraction like this: Just before and during the World War I era, several avant-garde artists emerged to create shockingly different new forms by which artists could express themselves. In Paris, Picasso and Braque broke out with cubism, quickly followed by Mondrian. In Moscow, Malevich created Suprematism, the ultimate hard-edge geometric abstraction. And in Munich, Kandinsky emerged as the father of Abstract Expressionism. Within these few short years a zeitgeist was sensed throughout the art world. American pioneers, too — particularly Stanton Macdonald-Wright and Morgan Russell — felt this explosive freedom of expression. When Europe was recovering after World War I it became clear that Paris would retain its title as capitol of the art world, lasting through the Roaring Twenties and even through the Great Depression. But the end of World War II changed everything. A parallel war had been won by a group of irascible young Abstract Expressionists in New York — led by Pollock, Rothko, DeKooning, and Kline. No sooner had Paris been liberated from the Germans than Picasso, Matisse, Breton, and Duchamp surrendered to the Americans. From that point on New York would be the epicenter of the art world. But a lens that focuses myopically on the war between the avant-garde of Paris and New York misses the wider narrative of multiple aesthetic modernities that developed in the several decades following World War I. For Armenian artists the matter is even more complex owing to the genocide of 1915 where more than 1.5 million people — seventy-five percent of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire — were massacred. Those not shot on the spot were sent on death marches through the Mesopotamian desert without food or water. Frequently, the marchers were stripped and forced to walk naked under the scorching sun until they dropped dead. As a child Samsonian witnessed the murder of his parents and most of the members of his family. Soon thereafter, his older sister, Anahid, quickly shepherded him into a line of children being rescued by Greek nuns. But they became separated and he lost her, too. He was sent to a Greek orphanage in Smyrna (now Izmir), on Turkey’s west coast. Because he only knew his first name, the orphanage gave him a last name based on the place where they found him — Samsun — a major port on Turkey’s north coast on the Black Sea. His birth date was unknown, too. According to Samsonian’s vague recollections he assumed he was about three or four years old at the onset of the genocide, which would place his birth year in 1911 or 1912. In 1922, when Samsonian was about 10, the Turks ended their war with the Greeks by putting Smyrna to the torch in what has been called the “Catastrophe of Smyrna.” Once again, the child was on the run, escaping the fire and slaughter. He found temporary refuge in Constantinople, but within a year that major port would fall to the Turks, too, and become renamed as Istanbul. This time, Samsonian was whisked away to an orphanage in Greece founded by the American charity, Near East Relief — which is credited with saving so many Armenian orphans that the American historian Howard M. Sachar said it “quite literally kept an entire nation alive. Any understanding of Samsonian’s approach to modernism requires careful consideration of the impact of his early years because his art is inseparable from the anguish he experienced. In 1927, when he was a teenager, he was transferred to Cairo, Egypt, then a cosmopolitan city hosting a sizable portion of the Armenian diaspora. There he lived with thirty-two other children on the top floor of the Kalousdian Armenian School. Upon graduating in 1932 he won a scholarship to attend the Leonardo da Vinci Art Institute — an Italian art school in Cairo — where he won first prize in final examinations among one hundred students. He found work with an Armenian lithographic printer and he returned to the Kalousdian Armenian School to teach drawing. In 1939 he married one of his students, Lucy Guendimian. The Cairo in which Samsonian matured as an artist was home to many prominent art collectors after World War I. In this receptive environment Samsonian exhibited widely and won many awards. Beginning in 1937 and for the next thirty years he exhibited annually at the prestigious Le Salon du Caire hosted by the Société les Amis de l’Art (founded in 1921). After World War II he hit his stride as a modernist in Cairo, counting among his peers other artists of the Armenian diaspora such as Onnig Avedissian, Achod Zorian, Gregoire Meguerdichian, Hagop Hagopian...

Untitled ( ID 1277) (Abstract Painting) Oil on paper - Unframed In her abstract drawings, collages and paintings, Fieroza Doorsen brings to life the tensions and harmonies that eme...

Digital creation, printed on Hahnemühle Photo Rag de 308 gr - Unframed. Fluctuating between illustration and expressionism, connecting the geometric and biomorphic worlds, Perea co...

Title: House V:V fragment Artist: Marilina Marchica Medium: Mineral oxide on paper drawing dimensions:50x70 cm Description: "House Fragment V:V." is an original and non-reproducib...

Pastel on paper - Unframed. In her abstract drawings, collages and paintings, Fieroza Doorsen brings to life the tensions and harmonies that emerge when structure meets intuition. H...

Covers 13-Black B (Abstract painting) Gouache on handmade Khadi paper. Unframed. Joanne Freeman's works on paper are made with gouache on handmade Indian Khadi paper. She uses ta...

M252 (Abstract Drawing) Digital creation, printed on Hahnemühle Photo Rag de 308 gr - Unframed. Fluctuating between illustration and expressionism, connecting the geometric and bi...

Bottle (Dark Green), 2022 Additional information: Medium: Acrylic, gouache, graphite, and watercolor on paper Dimensions: 9 1/4 x 11 1/2 in Todd Hebert (b. 1972 in Valley City, ND)...

India ! (Abstract painting) Collage on Japanese paper - Unframed This collage on Japanese paper is a result of working with the accidental arrangements of found colored papers that...

Pastel on paper - Unframed. In her abstract drawings, collages and paintings, Fieroza Doorsen brings to life the tensions and harmonies that emerge when structure meets intuition. H...

Ink on paper - Unframed. Martín Reyna is an Argentinian-born abstract painter living in Paris, France. His gestural abstract paintings delight the eye and activate the mind with the...

"Lemon Accent" This intuitive abstract drawing is made with Chinese ink and pastel on watercolour paper. It conveys an impulse born in the space of sensations. "Every time I draw such abstract lines, a flow of energy moves my hand. For this to happen freely, I need to be calm and focused at the same time. I draw very quickly to keep expression and spontaneity. I never know what the result will be. The process of drawing like this is a kind of magic that turns an invisible impulse into a reflection on paper. Each drawing is unique and one of a kind." Sve Gri...

Pulse (Abstract drawing) Watercolour on Arches paper - Unframed Uchiyama works with watercolor on Arches paper. She often develops as many as eight compositions at one time, movin...

Spray paint, pencil, ink, watercolor on paper. Unframed. Peter Soriano works on relatively large sheets of Japanese paper with a tendency to work from something observed, ideally a...

Covers 13-Purple B (Abstract painting) Gouache on handmade Khadi paper. Unframed. Joanne Freeman's works on paper are made with gouache on handmade Indian Khadi paper. She uses ta...

Advance (Abstract drawing) Charcoal on paper - Unframed. Margaret Neill works for a time on a group of pieces in a series, using classic almost primal materials such as graphite, c...

Acrylic on paper - Unframed. Baribeau constructs his paintings layer upon layer, building color, form and texture into viscous, impasto compositions, on supports that are themselves...

Gouache on rag tracing vellum - Unframed. This work on paper is part of a series of collaged paintings titled “Jazz: Herbieʼs ʻDolphin Danceʼ #1-22”. Those brush paintings are Pri...

Intermezzo 6 (Abstract drawing) Charcoal on paper - Unframed. Image size: 46.3 x 43.8 cm/ 18 1/4 x 17 1/4 inches. Neill creates works on canvas, linen and paper using a variety of...

Covers 13-Black B (Abstract painting) Gouache on handmade Khadi paper. Unframed. Joanne Freeman's works on paper are made with gouache on handmade Indian Khadi paper. She uses ta...

P3.15 (Abstract Painting) Gouache and collage on Japanese paper. Unframed. This gouache paint with collage on Japanese paper is a result of working with the accidental arrangements...

Screech of ice series 41 (Abstract drawing) Colored pencil and graphite on plastic paper. Unframed. Screech of Ice is a new series of drawings made by holding a bunch of pencils in...

Untitled 5 (Abstract painting) Acrylic and oil on paper - Unframed Claude Tétot is a French abstract artist whose work expresses harmony in disharmony b...

Ink, gouache and acrylic on Fabriano paper - Unframed. Test Pattern series sets up a generic template as a poetic prompt to consider how behavioural responses to color and form stim...

19.6.17 (Abstract drawing) Pen and inkjet on paper - Unframed. Richard Caldicott drawings have a minimal esthetic, an architectural character, created with only one or two lines. P...

Quiver (Abstract painting) Oil on paper - Unframed. Spielman uses oil paint on canvas, paper and panel in various sizes; she works on up to forty paintings at a time, moving betwee...

4.29 15 (Abstract Expressionism painting) Gouache on archival paper - Unframed. Jill Moser is an American abstract artist whose work explores the intersection of “painting, writing...

Dashing into the day 3 (Abstract work on paper) Acrylics, ink and oil on paper - Unframed. This artwork is exclusive to IdeelArt. Knaut builds her compositions slowly over time, a...

Framed (Abstract painting) Casein on Arches paper. Unframed. Anne Russinof often does paintings on paper to loosen up for the larger canvas works. The point is to free her hand. ...