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: Pink
Science * Laws of Nature (One of the Arts)
Located in Jersey City, NJ
Science * Laws of Nature (One of the Arts)
Gouache and metallic ink on 1957 Encyclopedia page
Feminist Art and Contemporary Feminist / Geometric Abstraction / Gestural Abstraction ...
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2010s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Gouache, Magazine Paper
Large Abstract Expressionist Watercolor Color Field Painting Paul Jenkins Style
By Dom Mingolla
Located in Surfside, FL
Dominic Mingolla (1922 – 1999) Mingolla created paintings in many different materials and genres. Best known for his large abstract expressionist watercolor paintings similar in style to Paul Jenkins and for his Enamel work. His work bears affinities both to Lyrical Abstraction and to Tachisme artists such as Nicolas de Staël, Serge Poliakoff, Andre Lanskoy, Hans Hartung, Jean-Paul Riopelle, Gustave Singier, Alfred Manessier, Roger Bissiere, "Lyrical Abstraction arose in the 1960s and 70s, following the challenge of Minimalism and Conceptual art. Many artists began moving away from geometric, hard-edge, and minimal styles, toward more lyrical, sensuous, romantic abstractions worked in a loose gestural style. These "lyrical abstractionists" sought to expand the boundaries of abstract painting, and to revive and reinvigorate a painterly 'tradition' in American art. At the same time, these artists sought to reinstate the primacy of line and color as formal elements in works composed according to aesthetic principles – rather than as the visual representation of sociopolitical realities or philosophical theories." "Characterized by intuitive and loose paint handling, spontaneous expression, illusionist space, acrylic staining, process, occasional imagery, and other painterly techniques, the abstract works included in this exhibition sing with rich fluid color and quiet energy. Artists associated with Lyrical Abstraction include: Natvar Bhavsar, Lamar Briggs, Friedel Dzubas, Sam Francis, Ronnie Landfield, Pat Lipsky...
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20th Century Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Archival Paper
Red and Yellow Galaxy Abstract on Wrapper of Interview Magazine Acrylic on Paper
Located in Soquel, CA
Red and Yellow Galaxy Abstract on Wrapper of Interview Magazine Acrylic on Paper
Saturated abstract composition by Ricardo de Silva (Brazilian, 20th Century). Splashes of red, yello...
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1980s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pastel, Acrylic
Memento 07 (Abstract Painting)
Located in London, GB
Memento 07 (Abstract Painting)
Acrylic on Hahnemühle paper - Unframed
Emma Godebska is a French abstract artist living in Nimes, France.
Her use of natural pigments, reflective of ...
Category
2010s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Acrylic
Memento 05 (Abstract Painting)
Located in London, GB
Memento 05 (Abstract Painting)
Acrylic on Hahnemühle paper - Unframed
Emma Godebska is a French abstract artist living in Nimes, France.
Her use of natural pigments, reflective of ...
Category
2010s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Acrylic
Memento 06 (Abstract Painting)
Located in London, GB
Memento 06 (Abstract Painting)
Acrylic on Hahnemühle paper - Unframed
Emma Godebska is a French abstract artist living in Nimes, France.
Her use of natural pigments, reflective of ...
Category
2010s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Acrylic
Memento 03 (Abstract Painting)
Located in London, GB
Memento 03 (Abstract Painting)
Acrylic on Hahnemühle paper - Unframed
Emma Godebska is a French abstract artist living in Nimes, France.
Her use of natural pigments, reflective of ...
Category
2010s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Acrylic
Memento 04 (Abstract Painting)
Located in London, GB
Memento 04 (Abstract Painting)
Acrylic on Hahnemühle paper - Unframed
Emma Godebska is a French abstract artist living in Nimes, France.
Her use of nat...
Category
2010s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Acrylic
Memento 01 (Abstract Painting)
Located in London, GB
Memento 01 (Abstract Painting)
Acrylic on Hahnemühle paper - Unframed
Emma Godebska is a French abstract artist living in Nimes, France.
Her use of natural pigments, reflective of ...
Category
2010s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Acrylic
Abstract Turquoise & Red Flowers on Pink Background by British Landscape Artist
Located in Preston, GB
Painting of Abstract Turquoise & Red Flowers on a Pink Background by British Landscape Artist, Angela Wakefield. This original is from the 'S...
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Early 2000s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Gesso, Canvas, Paint, Cotton Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic, Watercolor
Remains (Body in the Field 22) - 21st Century, Pink, Contemporary, Work On Paper
Located in Berlin, DE
Remains (Body in the Field 22), 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
Indian Contemporary Art by Sumit Mehndiratta - Composition No. 384
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
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...
Category
2010s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Oil Pastel, Graphite
Pink dreams - abstraction art, made in gray, pink, fuchsia color
By Mila Akopova
Located in Fort Lee, NJ
Interior design paintings. The work is made with alcoholic ink in pink, grey - blue color on Yupo paper.
It is 11 by 14 inches in size, framed (gold) with styrene face on a double m...
Category
2010s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink
RosesGold
Located in Westport, CT
Since 1974, Louise P. Sloane has been actively engaged in the studio as an abstract painter.
Her work focuses upon geometric forms, grids and patterns. These detail oriented pieces ...
Category
2010s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Acrylic
"NGC-6397, " Pigment Ink on Paper, 2019
Located in Chicago, IL
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...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Archival Ink, Photographic Paper
"NGC-3201, " Acrylic on Canvas, 2019
Located in Chicago, IL
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...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Archival Ink, Photographic Paper
Abstract Policeman in Village - Mid 20th Century Mixed Media by George De Goya
Located in Watford, Hertfordshire
Professor George De Goya. PhD. MA. FRSA. Born In Budapest, 1915-1992, related to the Spanish artist Goya on his mother’s side. Educated in Budapest and France where he received a de...
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1950s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Charcoal, Pastel, Mixed Media
Pink dreams II - abstraction art, made in gray, pink, fuchsia color
By Mila Akopova
Located in Fort Lee, NJ
Interior design paintings. The work is made with alcoholic ink in pink, grey - blue color on Yupo paper.
It is 11 by 14 inches in size, framed (gold) with styrene face on a double m...
Category
2010s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink
"Desert Days", Southwestern Geometric Abstract
Located in Soquel, CA
Bright, monochromatic abstract in warm, glowing desert tones by Marianne K. Brown (American, 1928-2019), 2000. The free flowing color field background is accented with areas of patterns evoking the Southwest. Signed "Marianne K. Brown" in the lower right and was acquired with a collection of Brown's work. Title "Desert Days" and date 2000 are written on verso. No frame.
Marianne K. Brown (American, 1928-2019) has taught watercolor and design for thirty years. Her work has been shown in many art magazines, including Watercolor Magic and The International Artist Magazine, and several books on watercolor painting. She was elected secretary of Orange County Art Association in 1964. Listed in the National Watercolor Society.
Author, Watercolor by Design
Member, East Bay Watercolor Society
1964 - 3rd Place, non-figurative exhibit of Orange County Art Association
1978 - Honorable Mention, Central California Art...
Category
Early 2000s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Gouache
"Study for Caldwell 49, " Acrylic on Canvas, 2021
Located in Chicago, IL
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...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Schist 9 (Abstract painting)
Located in London, GB
Schist 9 (Abstract painting)
Casein on paper - Unframed
Anne Russinof often does paintings on paper to loosen up for the larger canvas works. The point is to free her hand.
For h...
Category
2010s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Casein
Untitled 2006 (Abstract Drawing)
Located in London, GB
Untitled 2006 (Abstract Drawing)
Pen on tracing paper - Unframed.
Richard Caldicott drawings have a minimal esthetic, an architectural character, created with only one or two lines...
Category
Early 2000s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pen
A20 - Make it sexy (Abstract Drawing)
Located in London, GB
A20 - Make it sexy (Abstract Drawing)
Acrylic on paper - Unframed.
The artist created this series shortly afterward arriving in NY.
His interest was to see what responses the paint...
Category
Early 2000s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Acrylic
Untitled 535, 1990s
Located in Quogue, NY
Watercolor on paper
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1990s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
“Once or Twice, Like an Ermine Jigsaw, ” Contemporary Abstract painting (red)
By Mark Masyga
Located in New York, NY
28"x36" oil, graphite on canvas, signed on reverse by the artist. This contemporary abstract painting by New York artist, Mark Masyga is visually laid out with painted lines of color intertwined and layered on top of each other. The orange and blues compliment the red-orange ground color, creating a vibrant composition. This painting is featured in a solo show released by the Front Room Gallery...
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2010s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Graphite
Clout
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This work is chalk pastel on paper. These works on paper are an investigation of line and generative form. Through these drawings, I am exploring the tension between the flat line ...
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2010s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Chalk, Pastel
Chinese Contemporary Art by Xiong Longdeng - Manoeuvre
Located in Paris, IDF
Ink on Chinese paper
Xiong Long-Deng is Chinese artist born in 1966 who lives & works in Qingzhen & Beijing, China. He is graduated from the Department of Oil Painting, College of ...
Category
2010s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink
Ichtios - XX Century, Contemporary Abstract Watercolor Painting, Bright Colors
Located in Warsaw, PL
WOJCIECH SADLEY (born in 1932)
Painter, graphic and fabric artist. He studied at the Music Academy in Lublin, then at the Academy Of Fine Arts in Warsaw (where he works as a profess...
Category
Early 2000s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Cityscape #1, urban architectural abstraction
Located in Brooklyn, NY
acrylic on archival Canson watercolor paper
Mauricio Trenard is an artist, educator and arts activist.
He says this series is of great interest to him, as it offers the potential
...
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Early 2000s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Archival Paper
"Macroblast 7", pastel, drawing, microscopic, orange, pink, purple, black
By Kay Hartung
Located in Natick, MA
Kay Hartung’s “Macroblast 7” is a 19.5 x 25 inch pastel drawing done on black Canson Mi Teintes paper. In pinks, oranges and purples this drawing is beautifully detailed with both br...
Category
Early 2000s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pastel
Ichtios - XX Century, Contemporary Abstract Watercolor Painting, Bright Colors
Located in Warsaw, PL
WOJCIECH SADLEY (born in 1932)
Painter, graphic and fabric artist. He studied at the Music Academy in Lublin, then at the Academy Of Fine Arts in Warsaw (where he works as a profess...
Category
Early 2000s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Modern British 20th Century Colourful Abstract Painting - Geometric shapes
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Abstract Composition
British School, monogrammed/ dated lower corner
gouache painting on paper laid over card, unframed
actual painting: 22 x 15.5 inches
Superb - bold - and very co...
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Late 20th Century Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Gouache
House of Magenta
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Maria C. Bernhardsson is a colorful artist who lives and paints in Sweden. Most of her works are influenced by the architecture and geometry of houses. Bernhardsson travels the world...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink, Mixed Media, Watercolor
A20 - Make it sexy
Located in London, GB
Acrylic on paper - Unframed.
The artist created this series shortly afterward arriving in NY.
His interest was to see what responses the paintings evoke.
Category
Early 2000s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Acrylic
Untitled 2006
Located in London, GB
Pen on tracing paper - Unframed.
Richard Caldicott drawings have a minimal esthetic, an architectural character, created with only one or two lines. Pastel tones, softened colors, a...
Category
Early 2000s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pen
Andra Samelson, Pink Window, Acrylic on paper, 12 x 12 inches, 2018
Located in Darien, CT
Andra Samelson’s work explores the relationship of microcosm and macrocosm, emptiness and form. The imagery in her paintings is often associated with molecular and galactic systems. ...
Category
2010s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Handmade Paper, Acrylic
Schist 9 (Abstract painting)
Located in London, GB
Casein on paper - Unframed
Anne Russinof often does paintings on paper to loosen up for the larger canvas works. The point is to free her hand.
For her, everything begins with col...
Category
2010s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Casein
Larry Zox "Meta Center" Drawing, 1965
By Larry Zox
Located in Toronto, Ontario
Larry Zox (1937-2006) was a central figure in the evolution of 20th century abstraction in America.
Raised in Des Moines, Iowa, Zox studied at the University of Oklahoma and went o...
Category
1960s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Mixed Media
Untitled
Located in Dallas, TX
"Behind my canvases, collages, and drawings lies a singular proposition: places are not inert; they are repositories for all that passes through them. My work is an inquiry into the ...
Category
2010s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink, Acrylic
Oil Pastel Drawing on Amate Paper 5
Located in Cuernavaca, Morelos
Oil pastel drawing on amate paper, unique,
Category
2010s Abstract Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Oil Pastel
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