Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
ABSTRACT STYLE
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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Style: Abstract
Color: Green
Shape 40 (2019) - Abstract shape, minimalist gestural, bright green, white paper
Located in Jersey City, NJ
Shape 40 (2019) by Ryan Park of Shapes Only
Abstract, nonobjective, gestural, geometric art, acrylic on 300GSM archival paper. Abstract shape innovated by the artist. Neutral pal...
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2010s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Archival Paper, Acrylic
Shape 12 (2019) - Abstract shape, minimalist gestural, green & white on paper
Located in Jersey City, NJ
Shape 12 (2019) by Ryan Park of Shapes Only
Abstract, nonobjective, gestural, geometric art, acrylic on 300GSM archival paper. Abstract shape innovated by the artist. Neutral pal...
Category
2010s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Archival Paper
Golden Green 10 (Abstract Painting)
Located in London, GB
Golden Green 10 (Abstract Painting)
Acrylic on Hahnemühle paper - Unframed
Emma Godebska is a French abstract artist living in Nimes, France.
Her use of natural pigments, reflectiv...
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2010s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Acrylic
Golden Green 08 (Abstract Painting)
Located in London, GB
Golden Green 08 (Abstract Painting)
Acrylic on Hahnemühle paper - Unframed
Emma Godebska is a French abstract artist living in Nimes, France.
Her use of natural pigments, reflectiv...
Category
2010s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Acrylic
Remains (Body in the Field 13) - 21st Century, Green, Blue, Oil
Located in Berlin, DE
Remains (Body in the Field 13), 2022
oil on paper (signed on reverse)
16 17/32 H x 11 13/16 W in.
42 H x 30 W cm
Zsolt Berszán embodies in his works the dissolution of the human bod...
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2010s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Oil
Remains (Body in the Field 9) - 21st Century, Green, Blue, Contemporary
Located in Berlin, DE
Remains (Body in the Field 9), 2022
oil on paper (signed on reverse)
16 17/32 H x 11 13/16 W in.
42 H x 30 W cm
Zsolt Berszán embodies in his works the dissolution of the human body...
Category
2010s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Oil
Remains (Body in the Field 14) - Contemporary, Green, Yellow, Pink, 21st Century
Located in Berlin, DE
Remains (Body in the Field 14), 2022
oil on paper
16 17/32 h x 11 13/16 w in.
42 H x 30 W cm
Zsolt Berszán embodies in his works the dissolution of the human body through the prism ...
Category
2010s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Oil
Untitled, Kirsten Hawthorne
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Kirsten Hawthorne received her MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and she lives and works in New York City. Hawthorne is a master oil pastellist creating works on p...
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2010s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Oil Pastel, Graphite
Indian Contemporary Art by Sumit Mehndiratta - Composition No. 388
Located in Paris, IDF
Acrylics on Yupo paper
Sumit Mehndiratta is an Indian artist born in 1986 who lives & works in New Delhi, India. He has pursued Master of Scienc...
Category
2010s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Reflection of What, Original Contemporary Abstract Ink Painting on Yupo Paper
Located in Boston, MA
Reflection of What, Original Abstract Painting, 2020
11.5" x 8.5" (HxW) Alcohol Ink on Yupo Paper
A lovely abstraction, almost geometric in nature, switches colors as it moves diago...
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink
Belted Kingfisher and Foliage, Original Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
Artist Suren Nersisyan paints an impressionist Belted Kingfisher in gentle brush strokes. The bird roosts on the dense summery ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Chinese Contemporary Art by Wu You - A Companion Like a Tiger
Located in Paris, IDF
Ink & colour on paper - The artwork comes with COA
Framed 101 x 51 x 4 cm
Category
2010s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink
Chinese Contemporary Art by Wu You - If I Want to Die, I Must Die at Your Hands
Located in Paris, IDF
Ink & colour on paper - The artwork comes with COA
Framed 101 x 51 x 4 cm
Category
2010s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink
Blue lagoon - abstract painting, made in blu, turquoise color (wave, sea, ocean)
By Mila Akopova
Located in Fort Lee, NJ
Interior design paintings. The work was done with alcohol ink in blue color on Yupo paper. The work is 11 by 14 inches in size, framed (gold or black) with a styrene face on a mat bo...
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2010s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink
11.7 (Abstract Expressionism painting)
By Jill Moser
Located in London, GB
11.7 (Abstract Expressionism painting)
Casein and ink on paper - Unframed
Jill Moser is an American abstract artist whose work explores the intersection of “painting, writing and t...
Category
Early 2000s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink, Casein
Dolphin Dance 30 (Abstract Drawing)
By Ellen Priest
Located in London, GB
Dolphin Dance 30 (Abstract Drawing)
Gouache on rag tracing vellum - Unframed.
This work on paper is part of a series of collaged paintings titled “Jazz: Herbieʼs ʻDolphin Danceʼ #1...
Category
Early 2000s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Vellum
Hill and Dale
By Mark Lembo
Located in Boston, MA
About the piece:
The second work of the new Wash Buckle series. Instead of working to keep the moist paper flat, the work takes what the paper 'gives it' - using the peaks and valle...
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink, Watercolor
Survey 4 (Abstract painting)
By Tom McGlynn
Located in London, GB
Survey 4 (Abstract painting)
Acrylic on Fabriano paper - Unframed.
This work is part of an ongoing series started in 2012 and titled Survey.
McGlynn is interested in how a minimal...
Category
2010s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Acrylic
11.7 (Abstract Expressionism painting)
By Jill Moser
Located in London, GB
11.7 (Abstract Expressionism painting)
Casein and ink on paper - Unframed
Jill Moser is an American abstract artist whose work explores the intersection of “painting, writing and t...
Category
Early 2000s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink, Casein
Survey 4 (Abstract painting)
By Tom McGlynn
Located in London, GB
Survey 4 (Abstract painting)
Acrylic on Fabriano paper - Unframed.
This work is part of an ongoing series started in 2012 and titled Survey.
McGlynn is interested in how a minimal...
Category
2010s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Acrylic
Adjacent 2 (Abstract drawing)
By Xanda McCagg
Located in London, GB
Adjacent 2 (Abstract drawing)
Pencil and paint stick on paper. Unframed.
This work on paper is about Minimalism and exploring minimalist ideas of small moments where one thing has ...
Category
2010s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paint, Paper, Pencil
Dolphin Dance 30 (Abstract Drawing)
By Ellen Priest
Located in London, GB
Dolphin Dance 30 (Abstract Drawing)
Gouache on rag tracing vellum - Unframed.
This work on paper is part of a series of collaged paintings titled “Jazz: Herbieʼs ʻDolphin Danceʼ #1...
Category
Early 2000s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Vellum
Box II (Abstract painting)
Located in London, GB
Box II (Abstract painting)
Acrylic on 300 lb. Arches watercolor paper - Unframed.
Hallard works with the themes of space and geometry, manipulating images and arrangements of objec...
Category
2010s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Acrylic
11.7 (Abstract Expressionism painting)
By Jill Moser
Located in London, GB
Casein and ink 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 the...
Category
Early 2000s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink, Casein
Survey 4 (Abstract painting)
By Tom McGlynn
Located in London, GB
Acrylic on Fabriano paper - Unframed.
This work is part of an ongoing series started in 2012 and titled Survey.
McGlynn is interested in how a minimally-determined presentation of ...
Category
2010s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Acrylic
Survey 4 (Abstract painting)
By Tom McGlynn
Located in London, GB
Acrylic on Fabriano paper - Unframed.
This work is part of an ongoing series started in 2012 and titled Survey.
McGlynn is interested in how a minimally-determined presentation of ...
Category
2010s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Acrylic
Color of unloved #1 - abstraction art, made in orange, yellow, red and turquoise
By Lena Cher
Located in Fort Lee, NJ
Interior design paintings. Abstraction art, made in orange, yellow, turquoise and black. Can be positioned in horizontal or vertical mode, can be a part of diptych.
Lena Chernyavsk...
Category
2010s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Epoxy Resin
Patiently, Original Painting
By Dwight Smith
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
"We have many different tropical birds in Florida," says artist Dwight Smith. "I had Ohio friends come to visit once and said we only see birds like that in a...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Color of unloved #2 - abstraction art, made in orange, yellow, red and turquoise
By Lena Cher
Located in Fort Lee, NJ
Interior design paintings. Abstraction art, made in orange, yellow, turquoise, black and white. Can be positioned in horizontal or vertical mode, can be a part of diptych.
Lena Cher...
Category
2010s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Epoxy Resin
Box II
Located in London, GB
Acrylic on 300 lb. Arches watercolor paper - Unframed.
Hallard works with the themes of space and geometry, manipulating images and arrangements of objects in order to challenge the...
Category
2010s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Acrylic
Florescent Figurative Abstract
Located in Soquel, CA
Evocative figurative abstract in florescent hues by Louis Nadalini (American, 1927-1995). Signed lower right corner and dated "Louis E Nadalini 88" on verso. Unframed.
Louis Nadali...
Category
1980s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Paper, Pastel
Dolphin Dance 30
By Ellen Priest
Located in London, GB
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...
Category
Early 2000s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Vellum
Ocean - abstract painting in black, yellow, turquoise blue
By Lena Cher
Located in Fort Lee, NJ
Interior design paintings. Abstraction art, made in yellow, black, white and turquoise blue. Can be positioned in horizontal or vertical mode.
Lena Chernyavskaya / LENA CHER
Born i...
Category
2010s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Resin, Acrylic
Hagaroma Study - Small Color Field Work on Paper
By Martin Canin
Located in New York, NY
This small work on paper by Martin Canin, measuring 22 x 30 inch, and dating from 1976, is the study for a large painting titled Hagaroma. Color is freed from objective context and b...
Category
1970s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Crayon, Paper, Tempera
Adjacent 2 (Abstract drawing)
By Xanda McCagg
Located in London, GB
Pencil and paint stick on paper. Unframed.
This work on paper is about Minimalism and exploring minimalist ideas of small moments where one thing has an effect on the whole.
On a s...
Category
2010s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paint, Paper, Pencil
"Oasis in Iridescent Forest, " Miniature Watercolor signed by David Barnett
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Oasis in Iridescent Forest" is an original miniature watercolor by David Barnett, signed on the center bottom edge. The work is painted in iridescent watercolor and renders a forest...
Category
2010s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
"Annotation 1" Abstract Bright Green Playful Colorful Bright Mixed Media
By Nancy Berlin
Located in Wellesley, MA
Annotation 1, 2010, 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 el...
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2010s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media
Fashionably Late - Abstract Watercolor on Paper in Green and Purple
Located in New York, NY
Andrei Petrov's Fashionably Late is 9 x 13.5 inches watercolor on paper. The main colors are green, and purple.
As it is often the case in Petrov's work, his abstractions acquire, at...
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Watercolor
Green Freshness - Original handsigned gouache
Located in Paris, FR
Georges Hugnet (1906-1974)
Green Freshness
Gouache on paper
Signed in the lower right corner
Dimensions 37,5 x 15,5 cm (15 x 6")
Excellent condition
Category
1970s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Abstract drawings and watercolor paintings for sale on 1stDibs.
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