Abstract Geometric Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

James Minden potential Holographic drawing- Hand incised plastic and acrylic on panel 24 x 24 inches 2017 To get a sense of the holographic effect look at the video on that vimeo's ...

Dana Piazza's creates abstract colorful drawings, full of the illusion of depth, movement, and three-dimensionality. His highly obsessive ink drawings on paper are built upon algorit...

Peter Halley Prison 30, 1995 Original graphite drawing on paper Pencil signed on the recto. Titled and dated verso. This unique work on paper was created by Peter Halley in 1995 to b...

James Minden Incidence Holographic drawing- engraved anodized aluminum and enamel paint 24 x 24 inches 2017 To get a sense of the holographic effect...

Evan Venegas works primarily in watercolor, a delicate medium through which he is best able to convey subtle meanings and emotions. Using geometric shapes in general and circles in p...

Evan Venegas works primarily in watercolor, a delicate medium through which he is best able to convey subtle meanings and emotions. Using geometric shapes in general and circles in p...

James Minden Fringe Holographic drawing- Hand incised plastic and acrylic on panel 36 x 36 inches 2013 To get a sense of the holographic effect look at the video on that vimeo's sit...

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...

ABBY GOLDSTEIN Untitled, 2012 8.0 x 11.3 inches; framed in white frame 13 x 16.1 inches watercolor and pencil on paper pencil signed recto American artist, Abby Goldstein has been f...

Dana Piazza's creates abstract black and white drawings, full of the illusion of depth, movement, and three-dimensionality. His highl...

James Minden Place Holographic drawing- Hand incised plastic and acrylic on panel 24 x 24 inches 2013 To get a sense of the holographic effect look at the video on that vimeo's site...

Cut-Up Paper II.3 (Abstract Painting) Acrylic on paper. Unframed. Pedersen works with acrylic paint. When painting a composition, she tends toward a limited color palette, often r...

Cut-Up Paper II.3 (Abstract Painting) Acrylic on paper. Unframed. Pedersen works with acrylic paint. When painting a composition, she tends toward a limited color palette, often r...

abstract geometric black and white ink drawing on mylar framed in white frame For over twenty years now Patrick Carrara has lived in Brooklyn, where he has maintained a studio and s...

Artist: Susan Michod, American Title: Untitled Year: 1977 Medium: Watercolor on Paper, signed and dated Size: 30 in. x 22.5 in. (76.2 cm x 57.15 cm)

Cut-Up Paper I.5 (Abstract Painting) Acrylic on paper. Unframed. Pedersen works with acrylic paint. When painting a composition, she tends toward a limited color palette, often re...

The colorful paintings of Jan Pieter Fokkens transport us to distant worlds beyond our comprehension. Within his seemingly infinite networks of lines, dots, and crosses, he decodes t...

This artwork is a part of the COVID-19 Documentary art (2020). Paintings on high quality, acid-free, high-density paper 360g/m2. All COVID paintings a...

Empath * Communication * Translate * Sharing (One of the Arts) Gouache and metallic ink on 1957 Encyclopedia page Feminist Art and Contemporary Feminist / Geometric Abstraction / G...

Accomplish (To Accomplish * Goals & Task) Gouache and metallic ink on 1957 Encyclopedia page Feminist Art and Contemporary Feminist / Geometric Abstraction / Gestural Abstraction /...

This mesmerizing ink drawing on clay-coated panel by Jenifer Kent shows off the artist's meditative process as she hand-draws, without assistance from a straight edge, a network of l...

"Singularity" is a monochrome graphic work made with acrylic on cardboard using sepia. The central element of the composition is a complex, dynamic figure resembling a sphere or lens...

Drawing / Geometric Abstraction / Mythology and Religion / Bright and Vivid Colors / Black and White Enamel, ink, colored pencil and alcohol ink on paper....

This mesmerizing ink drawing on clay-coated panel by Jenifer Kent shows off the artist's meditative process as she hand-draws, without assistance from a straight edge, a network of l...

This mesmerizing ink drawing on clay-coated panel by Jenifer Kent shows off the artist's meditative process as she hand-draws, without assistance from a straight edge, a network of l...

Geometric and serene in its complexity - abstract contemporary painting created with impeccable attention to detail by deconstructing original watercolors—based largely on landscape,...

Geometric and serene in its complexity - abstract contemporary painting created with impeccable attention to detail by deconstructing original watercolors—based largely on landscape,...

Guillermo Bublik is an Argentinian/American painter based in New Jersey. His works are easily recognizable by their bold combinations of colors and abstract geometric forms. Commonly...

charcoal on paper, mounted on curved wood Mark Pomilio’s work focuses on the research of fractals, cloning, and single cell manipulation. His mathematics-based drawings serve as ...

charcoal and pearl paint on paper 21.75 x 13.75 x 1.5 inches framed In the fields of sculpture and drawing, George Thiewes creates sharp, angular work with a focus on the interacti...

D. Tongen Pink, Blue, Mint, Black 1980s 12.75"x9.75" Soft pastel and pencil on paper Initialed in pencil lower right

D. Tongen "Orange and Blue" 1980s 11.75"x9.75" Soft pastel and pencil on paper Initialed and dated in pencil lower right

Paco Rabanne ( 1934 -2023 ) " Profil Orange " 41 X 31 cm 49 X 39 cm framed . colored pencil , Gouache, felt-tip pen and graphite on paper . signed and dated 1990.

charcoal on paper (41.75 x 36.75 x 1.75 inches) Mark Pomilio’s method, motives, and conceptual considerations are centered on visually articulating recent developments in the life ...

charcoal on paper Mark Pomilio’s method, motives, and conceptual considerations are centered on visually articulating recent developments in the life sciences. It is not his intent ...

Rudolph de Harak was a graphic and environmental designer and art director for Seventeen Magazine and teacher at Cooper Unio Yale and Parsons School o...

This striking original pen and ink drawing, titled “The Chicken”, was created by celebrated 20th-century American modernist Edward Marecak (1919–1993) in the 1940s. A powerful exampl...

watercolor on cold pressed Arches watercolor paper Michael Marlowe is a studio artist, art director and production designer working in the film and television industry. Marlowe’s la...

Guillermo Bublik is an Argentinian/American painter based in New Jersey. His works are easily recognizable by their bold combinations of colors and abstract geometric forms. Commonly...

charcoal on paper Travis Rice received his MFA from Arizona State University’s Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts. Influenced by his background in architecture, his work in...

Renelio Marin is a visual artist with a diverse range of influences and styles. Born in Cuba, he received his graduate degree from the San Alejandro School of Fine Arts in Havana in ...

This work on paper features deep hues of pink, orange and yellow. The unframed piece measures 25 by 19 inches. Lizzy Storm is an Atlanta-based Artist and educator creating weathered...

charcoal on paper 27.25 x 19.25 x 1.5 inches framed In the fields of sculpture and drawing, George Thiewes creates sharp, angular work with a focus on the interaction of light and ...

charcoal and pearl paint on paper 52.25 x 25.25 x 1.5 inches framed In the fields of sculpture and drawing, George Thiewes creates sharp, angular work with a focus on the interacti...

charcoal on paper Travis Rice received his MFA from Arizona State University’s Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts. Influenced by his background in architecture, his work in...

Renelio Marin is a visual artist with a diverse range of influences and styles. Born in Cuba, he received his graduate degree from the San Alejandro School of Fine Arts in Havana in ...

QUIRIJN VAN TIEL Rotterdam 1900-1967 Rhoon RUE DE BELLE VILLE II 1960 Gouache on paper 48 x 61 cm. Signed and dated: lower right ‘Quirijn 60’ Herkomst: Private collection, The Net...

acrylic on paper, framed b. 1975, Bellaire, OH Dion Johnson’s paintings combine and explore dynamic opposites: expansiveness and compression, surface and depth, and darkness and l...

Chicago-based artist Jan Pieter Fokkens uses his work as a means of processing the incomprehensible. Navigating the relationship between algorithmic abstraction and the tangible qualities of pattern and color, Fokkens meditates on how reality is mediated by digital image. Entitled "NGC-3201," this vibrant drawing offers a representation of the globular cluster NGC-3201. Using an image taken by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope...

accumulated smoke (carbon pigment) on paper 10 x 10 inches; image size / 21.25 x 17.25 x 1.25 inches; framed Bryan David Griffith's work explores the idea that dualities—light and ...

Pencil drawing of geometric forms and lines

Chicago-based artist Jan Pieter Fokkens uses his work as a means of processing the incomprehensible. Navigating the relationship between algorithmic abstraction and the tangible qualities of pattern and color, Fokkens meditates on how reality is mediated by digital image. Entitled "NGC-6397," this vibrant drawing offers a representation of the globular cluster NGC-6397, also known as Caldwell 87, located 7,800 light-years from Earth. Using an image taken by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope...

Abstract Still Life c/1935-1945) Gouache and watercolor on paper 17 3/4" x 24" 21 1/2" x 27 1/2" x 1 1/4" framed Signed "E Cory" lower right.

In Every Direction 7, 2015, Mixed Media on Paper, 11 x 9 Inches (Image), 17 x 14 Inches (Paper). This painting on paper is unframed. Playful geometric abstraction of rectangular sh...

Continuation 4, 2013, Mixed Media on Paper, 17.5 x 14 Inches (Image), 29 x 22 Inches (Paper). This painting on paper is unframed. Playful geometric abstraction of swirling linear...

Changing Perceptions 2, 2015, Mixed Media on Paper, 11 x 9 Inches (Image), 17 x 14 Inches (Paper). This painting on paper is unframed. Playful geometric abstraction of rectangular ...

Sandi Gehring (1957), American artist living and working in Amsterdam. Education; Art Students League, NY and Wackers Academie, Amsterdam. Currently repr...

Entitled "Study for Messier 17," this painting by Chicago-artist Jan Pieter Fokkens offers a representation of the spectacular star-forming region Messier 17, also known as the Omega Nebula or Swan Nebula. A vast region of gas, dust and hot young stars, Messier 17 lies in the heart of the Milky Way, tucked within the constellation of Sagittarius (the Archer). Inspired by telescope images of deep space, contemporary computer compression algorithms and early non-representational art...

Dana Piazza's creates abstract black and white drawings, full of the illusion of depth, movement, and three-dimensionality. His highl...

Dana Piazza's creates abstract black and white drawings, full of the illusion of depth, movement, and three-dimensionality. His highl...