Abstract Mixed Media
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: Gray
Pair of Cut Paper Collages
Located in Buffalo, NY
A pair of original cut paper collages by Venezuelan American artist Ricardo Morin.
Each of these works measure 7" x 5" unframed and come housed in a...
Category
1980s Abstract Mixed Media
Materials
Paper, Acrylic, Graphite
"Masquerade" Large Scale Acrylic, Oil Pastels, Pencils Abstract in Pinks 48x60
Located in New York, NY
"Masquerade" 2024, 48" H x 60" W. Large-scale, multi-colored abstract painting consisting of acrylic, house paint, pencils, and oil pastels on canvas by Argentine-born artist Karina ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Mixed Media
Materials
Oil Pastel, House Paint, Acrylic, Carbon Pencil, Color Pencil
C - 3
Located in Milano, IT
A meditative suspended calm of color, recalling an iconic theme.
Painting through dynamic and oblique forms mixing western and oriental zen colors as the sides of the paintings expan...
Category
2010s Abstract Mixed Media
Materials
Paper, Chalk, Color Pencil, Pigment
C - 5
Located in Milano, IT
A meditative suspended calm of color, recalling an iconic theme.
Painting through dynamic and oblique forms mixing western and oriental zen colors as the sides of the paintings expan...
Category
2010s Abstract Mixed Media
Materials
Paper, Carbon Pencil
C - 4
Located in Milano, IT
A meditative suspended calm of color, recalling an iconic theme.
Painting through dynamic and oblique forms mixing western and oriental zen colors as the sides of the paintings expan...
Category
2010s Abstract Mixed Media
Materials
Paper, Chalk, Color Pencil, Pigment
C - 22
Located in Milano, IT
A meditative suspended calm of color, recalling an iconic theme.
Painting through dynamic and oblique forms mixing western and oriental zen colors as the sides of the paintings expan...
Category
2010s Abstract Mixed Media
Materials
Paper, Chalk, Color Pencil, Pigment
Octopus In Its Own Ink
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Mixed Media Collage Pigment Ink on Cotton Mounted Birch Board , Encaustic Beeswax Finish.
Thomas’s professional photo career began at the age of seventeen with extensive apprentices...
Category
2010s Abstract Mixed Media
Materials
Mixed Media
Untitled
Located in PARIS, FR
Julian Arnaud
Untitled
Ciment sur toile Cement on canvas
130 x 97 cm 51.1 x 38.1 in.
2023
Julian Arnaud is a French artist born in 1978 in La Baule, on the shores of the Atlantic ...
Category
2010s Abstract Mixed Media
Materials
Concrete
Texas
By Alex Corno
Located in Milano, IT
Texas
2014
Collage e acrilico su carta
CM 70x50
Con la mano e con fuoco, sul metallo. Con la mano e col pensiero sulla carta.
Il disegno è inscindibile dalla scultura e non può es...
Category
2010s Abstract Mixed Media
Materials
Mixed Media, Acrylic, Paper, Glue
Scultura elegante
By Alex Corno
Located in Milano, IT
Scultura elegante
2013
Collage e acrilico su carta
CM 70x50
Con la mano e con fuoco, sul metallo. Con la mano e col pensiero sulla carta.
Il disegno è inscindibile dalla scultura ...
Category
2010s Abstract Mixed Media
Materials
Glue, Mixed Media, Acrylic
Anguish Revisited
By Brian Jerome
Located in Conshohocken, PA
There is so much in not only dealing with existing, but the endless chaos and factors surrounding and stimulating whatever this is. As I've gotten older its been harder to find the n...
Category
2010s Abstract Mixed Media
Materials
Oil, Acrylic
Untitled
Located in New Rochelle, NY
Marta Crespo is an Argentinian artist born in 1960.
She studied arts in Buenos Aires. Marta participated in workshops with various renowned artists, such as Santa Maria, Eckell, a...
Category
2010s Abstract Mixed Media
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic
Savage Sunflower
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Jordi Molla's Ground breaking "Savage Garden" series painted onto a plastic camo tarp stretched over canvas showing the contrast between the beauty of the flower and the savagery of ...
Category
2010s Abstract Mixed Media
Materials
Mixed Media
It's OK
Located in New Rochelle, NY
Marta Crespo is an Argentinian artist born in 1960.
She studied arts in Buenos Aires. Marta participated in workshops with various renowned artists, such as Santa Maria, Eckell, a...
Category
2010s Abstract Mixed Media
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic
Let’s Just Get on with it OK? bright and colorful pink, white, green abstract
Located in Toronto, ON
As an emerging self-taught artist, Miriam jumps into her art with sheer inquisitiveness and courage, embracing passion and authenticity throughout her work process.
“I like to appro...
Category
2010s Abstract Mixed Media
Materials
Acrylic, Canvas
Abrazo Eterno
Located in New Rochelle, NY
Marta Crespo is an Argentinian artist born in 1960.
She studied arts in Buenos Aires. Marta participated in workshops with various renowned artists, such as Santa Maria, Eckell, a...
Category
2010s Abstract Mixed Media
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic
Las Vueltas de la Vida
Located in New Rochelle, NY
Marta Crespo is an Argentinian artist born in 1960.
She studied arts in Buenos Aires. Marta participated in workshops with various renowned artists, such as Santa Maria, Eckell, a...
Category
2010s Abstract Mixed Media
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic
No Supongas
Located in New Rochelle, NY
Marta Crespo is an Argentinian artist born in 1960.
She studied arts in Buenos Aires. Marta participated in workshops with various renowned artists, such as Santa Maria, Eckell, a...
Category
2010s Abstract Mixed Media
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic
Where I Tried to Escape; What Beckons My Return
By Brian Jerome
Located in Conshohocken, PA
I tried to escape the farm town i grew up in and moved to the city. the city became home. I then left to start a family. Life happens and things change. I returned to the city, but n...
Category
2010s Abstract Mixed Media
Materials
Oil, Acrylic
OYV-19 - Contemporary Abstract Collage Painting- Yellow, measuring tape
Located in Signal Mountain, TN
OYV-19 is part of Eric Mack's ongoing body of work utilizing multi-media, complex compositions, and a grid centered around urban design. Using a grid to create the framework of the painting, Mack has re-purposed an old Lenny Kravitz album cover as the structure of the piece. On the edges of the piece you can see a complex edge consisting of a faux leather album cover, nylon mesh, and torn paper. As imagery, Mack has chosen musical notes, tape measure, and other music composition elements through Zerox copy adhered by matte medium to the surface. Mack then creates his own color to further tweak and personalize the piece.
Eric Mack (b.1976, Charleston) creates mathematically based renderings with a distinct post-modern twist. Works are informed with super imposed grids, patterns, and portals. Layered surfaces are created with paint, found objects, natural fibers, and synthetic substrates that explore the systems of our visual world.
His most recent show “Charting the Terrain” is on view now at the California African American Museum in Los Angeles was covered by the Los Angeles Times, KCRW, and LALA Magazine. His last solo exhibition was titled "Impossible Architectures" at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2017. Recent group shows include "Abstract Mind" at the Czong Institute of Contemporary Art, South Korea, "Small Works 2017 at Trestle Gallery, Brooklyn, "Checkered History", Outpost Artist Resources, Brooklyn, N.Y. 2015;
Collections include High Museum Atlanta, Ing Investments, Hartsfield Jackson International Airport - Atlanta + Atlanta Gas & Light Co. Pepsi Cola, Tate Properties, Heath Gallery, Harold Dawson Properties, Turner Field/Atlanta Braves...
Category
2010s Abstract Mixed Media
Materials
Nylon, Acrylic, Panel, Handmade Paper, Mesh
flowers 19-Contemporary, Abstract, Modern, Pop art, Surrealist, expressionist
Located in London, London
Flowers 19
Digital pigment print Ultrachrome ink on Fabriano Rosaspina paper. Hand signed by the artist, and certificate of authenticity. (Unframed)
His work has been shown in Rei...
Category
2010s Abstract Mixed Media
Materials
Archival Pigment
M00ba9-Contemporary, Abstract, Minimalism, Modern, Expressionist, Surrealist
Located in London, London
Digital pigment print Ultrachrome ink on Fabriano Rosaspina paper. Hand signed by the artist, and certificate of authenticity. (Unframed)
His work has been shown in Reina Sofía M...
Category
2010s Abstract Mixed Media
Materials
Archival Pigment
The Last Thing I Have to Take Apart Before I Rebuild an Entire Life
By Brian Jerome
Located in Conshohocken, PA
Moving, restarting, unboxing, organizing, all to start the right way after all previous experience
Category
2010s Abstract Mixed Media
Materials
Oil, Acrylic
My Eyes Did Not Deceive; It Was Not a Mirage
By Brian Jerome
Located in Conshohocken, PA
Sometimes life and existence can feel like a prison. you dont know when it started and where it came from. hopeless can feel real. but there is still always what you were wondering t...
Category
2010s Abstract Mixed Media
Materials
Oil, Acrylic
‘Light Bringer 1'
Located in London, GB
‘The Light Bringers’, 2023, is Latex and charcoal work, have the quality of movement, the heads turning and twisting, as if in prayer. These series of 6 works are almost biblical, tr...
Category
2010s Abstract Mixed Media
Materials
Charcoal, Latex
Swimming with Georgia
Located in Oceanside, CA
This 48 x 60 mixed mediums painting on canvas is stretched over a wood frame.
Why you will love this painting and why it will be perfect for your home:
This painting will make you f...
Category
2010s Abstract Mixed Media
Materials
Varnish, Coffee, Oil Pastel, Oil, Acrylic, Graphite
Untitled: White House
Located in New York, NY
Unidentified/ Unknown Artist, "Untitled: White House" , Mixed Media (Charcoal, Oil Paint) Landscape Drawing on Paper, 17.75 x 23, Mid to Late-20th Century
...
Category
Late 20th Century Abstract Mixed Media
Materials
Charcoal, Mixed Media, Oil
Eucalyptus Breath
Located in Oceanside, CA
This 48 x 60 mixed mediums painting on canvas is stretched over a wood frame.
Why you will love this painting and why it will be perfect for your home:
This painting will make you f...
Category
2010s Abstract Mixed Media
Materials
Varnish, Coffee, Oil Pastel, Oil, Acrylic, Graphite
The Moment Beauty and Peace Was Remembered
By Brian Jerome
Located in Conshohocken, PA
Content, happiness, joy, what have you, may be very well momentary and quick, but it should always be valued, respected, and resonate of the true peace in life.
Category
2010s Abstract Mixed Media
Materials
Oil, Acrylic
Assemblage Grey Gradient- abstract contemporary three-dimensional artwork
By Volker Kuhn
Located in Hamburg, DE
Assemblage Grey Gradient - is a unique work by Volker Kuhn, hand-torn with strips of handmade paper, individually painted, relief-like composition (70 cm diameter), framed 118 x 116 ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Mixed Media
Materials
Acrylic, Handmade Paper
Overlooking Where I Was, Ready to Be Where I Am
By Brian Jerome
Located in Conshohocken, PA
After what felt like a 6 year loss of my life, I am finally returning to, thankfully to where it left off, as a better, more complete, and matured existence.
Category
2010s Abstract Mixed Media
Materials
Oil, Acrylic
The Old Piano
Located in Yuba City, CA
Inspiration came from the old piano photos .I used those photos and portions of music book for this collage .
This collage was exhibited at Blue Line galler...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Mixed Media
Materials
Mixed Media
Waterfall
Located in Yuba City, CA
For this collage inspiration came from the photos of old water mill , which was my grandparents . When I visited them ,I always loved to watch water movement and listen to waterfalls...
Category
Late 20th Century Abstract Mixed Media
Materials
Mixed Media
Damping Coefficient
Located in Henderson, NV
Damping Coefficient Series 2024 is a continuation of Algebraic Relativization of Geometry 2022 imagined as Archival Ink on Canvas.
Category
2010s Abstract Mixed Media
Materials
Canvas, Archival Ink
Water Mill
Located in Yuba City, CA
For this collage inspiration came from the photos of old water mill ,which was my grandparents .When I visited
them ,I always was watching waterwheels and falling water .
This colla...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Mixed Media
Materials
Mixed Media
For Every Place I Could Not Stay; For Every Word I Could Not Say
By Brian Jerome
Located in Conshohocken, PA
In the last 16 years I have moved 9 times. 3 of which were houses i purchased with the intent to never move again and to finally have some where to call home. In all those apartmen...
Category
2010s Abstract Mixed Media
Materials
Oil, Acrylic
It Once Felt Like an Eternity, Is Now All Too Short
By Brian Jerome
Located in Conshohocken, PA
The drive from Philadelphia to my hometown, York, used to seem like an eternity 16 years ago. As time has flown by, so has the drive. What once seemed like most a day, is a blip of...
Category
2010s Abstract Mixed Media
Materials
Oil, Acrylic
I Used to Reckon Where I Would Be
By Brian Jerome
Located in Conshohocken, PA
Memories of being 5 and my dad showing my the Kingston Trio and Harry Belafonte and him singing along. I miss that.
Category
2010s Abstract Mixed Media
Materials
Oil, Acrylic
Parched and Determined/Graves to Beginnings
By Brian Jerome
Located in Conshohocken, PA
After a treacherous year of change and the emotional brutality and transition of life, I engaged on a physical and, non-intended, journey through mental revival. To leave old rumina...
Category
2010s Abstract Mixed Media
Materials
Oil, Acrylic
Light on Water
Located in Oceanside, CA
This unframed, mixed medium painting on canvas is stretched over wood measuring 48 x 60 inches. Why you will love this painting and why it will be perfect for your home:
This paintin...
Category
2010s Abstract Mixed Media
Materials
Varnish, Coffee, Oil Pastel, Oil, Spray Paint, Acrylic
Bullae
Located in Oceanside, CA
This 48 x 60 mixed mediums painting on canvas is stretched over a wood frame.
Why you will love this painting and why it will be perfect for your home:
This painting will make you f...
Category
2010s Abstract Mixed Media
Materials
Varnish, Coffee, Oil, Spray Paint, Acrylic, Graphite
"Gioia" Large Scale Acrylics, Oil Pastels and Pencils Abstract Painting 72"x108"
Located in New York, NY
"Gioia" ("Joy" in Italian) 2023, 72" x 108" large scale acrylics, house paint, oil pastels, wax crayons, and pencils abstract work on canvas by Argentine born artist Karina Gentinett...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Mixed Media
Materials
Oil Pastel, Wax Crayon, House Paint, Acrylic, Carbon Pencil, Color Pencil
Grey space V, Mixed Media on Paper
Located in Yardley, PA
Making geometrical abstracts is like composing music. Starting from a mood, gesture, stroke, one step inspires the following until suddenly something is complete, standing as a whole...
Category
2010s Abstract Mixed Media
Materials
Mixed Media
Geometrical Bird
Located in Henderson, NV
Geometrical Birds is a Series which I started in 1975 as pencil with ink on paper and ink on raw canvas. This Geometrical Bird has been reimagined as archival ink on canvas.
Category
1970s Abstract Mixed Media
Materials
Canvas, Archival Ink
Homenaje a Pasado
By Juan Manuel de La Rosa
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist: Juan Manuel De La Rosa (Mexican, born 1945)
Title: Homenaje a Pasado
Year: 1979
Medium: Mixed media and collage, with embossing
Paper: Hand made
Image size: 11.75 x 13....
Category
Late 20th Century Abstract Mixed Media
Materials
Mixed Media
Linear Drawing
Located in Henderson, NV
Originally done as Ink on Raw Canvas, this work has been reimagined as Archival Ink on Canvas.
Category
1970s Abstract Mixed Media
Materials
Canvas, Archival Ink
Linear Drawing
Located in Henderson, NV
Linear drawing was done in 1975 along with many other drawings done in this style using pencil with ink on paper. This work has been reimagined as archival ink on canvas.
Category
1970s Abstract Mixed Media
Materials
Canvas, Archival Ink
Dirty Benny 1 by Brook Soss, Taupe Vertical Abstract on Paper With Sandstone
Located in Atlanta, GA
Brook Soss is a contemporary artist exploring the sophistication of color and rawness of texture through mixed media.
She builds a body of work using large...
Category
2010s Abstract Mixed Media
Materials
Sandstone
Sunday Sailing
Located in Cazadero, CA
Sunday Sailing
Sails like sentinels, the waves, blue in the afternoon moving on the slackening wind, tacking for home a stripped away memory.
Category
2010s Abstract Mixed Media
Materials
Clay, Oil, Canvas
Modern Abstract Stacked Brick, Concrete, and Stone Totem Outdoor Sculpture
By Joe Mancuso
Located in Houston, TX
Modern abstract outdoor totem sculpture by Houston artist Joe Mancuso. The piece is constructed out of various decorative brick, stone, and concrete piec...
Category
1990s Abstract Mixed Media
Materials
Stone, Concrete
Researching and Remembering (Seed Beads)
Located in Sausalito, CA
Through a meditative practice, Tan glues these various materials on wood panels in intricate patterns directly inspired by traditional Filipino tr...
Category
2010s Abstract Mixed Media
Materials
Alabaster
Apollonius. Proposition 46
Located in Henderson, NV
Apollonius. Proposition 46. Archival Ink on Canvas. 20 x 30 inches.
Category
2010s Abstract Mixed Media
Materials
Canvas, Archival Ink
Candies Man
Located in BARCELONA, ES
MARC GONZ
THE HIDDEN GAZE
When confronted with the universe of Marc Gonz, we discover creations that seem to be the result of a working session of a hy...
Category
2010s Abstract Mixed Media
Materials
Oil
C - 8
Located in Milano, IT
A meditative suspended calm of color, recalling an iconic theme.
Painting through dynamic and oblique forms mixing western and oriental zen colors as the sides of the paintings expan...
Category
2010s Abstract Mixed Media
Materials
Paper, Chalk, Pencil, Color Pencil
C - 1 (2023)
Located in Milano, IT
A meditative suspended calm of color, recalling an iconic theme.
Painting through dynamic and oblique forms mixing western and oriental zen colors as the sides of the paintings expan...
Category
2010s Abstract Mixed Media
Materials
Paper, Chalk, Pencil, Color Pencil
C - 13
Located in Milano, IT
A meditative suspended calm of color, recalling an iconic theme.
Painting through dynamic and oblique forms mixing western and oriental zen colors as the sides of the paintings expan...
Category
2010s Abstract Mixed Media
Materials
Paper, Chalk, Pencil, Color Pencil
C - 1 2021
Located in Milano, IT
A meditative suspended calm of color, recalling an iconic theme. Painting through dynamic and oblique forms mixing western and oriental
zen colors as the sides of the paintings expa...
Category
2010s Abstract Mixed Media
Materials
Paper, Chalk, Pencil, Color Pencil
C - 5
Located in Milano, IT
A meditative suspended calm of color, recalling an iconic theme.
Painting through dynamic and oblique forms mixing western and oriental zen colors as the sides of the paintings expan...
Category
2010s Abstract Mixed Media
Materials
Paper, Chalk, Pencil, Color Pencil
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Find a wide variety of authentic Abstract mixed media available for sale on 1stDibs. Works in this style were very popular during the 21st Century and Contemporary, but contemporary artists have continued to produce works inspired by this movement. If you’re looking to add mixed media created in this style to introduce contrast in an otherwise neutral space in your home, the works available on 1stDibs include elements of blue, purple, orange, red and other colors. Many Pop art paintings were created by popular artists on 1stDibs, including Francisco Nicolás, Melisa Taylor Metzger, Aimée Farnet Siegel, and Franco DeFrancesca. Frequently made by artists working with Paint, and Mixed Media and other materials, all of these pieces for sale are unique and have attracted attention over the years. Not every interior allows for large Abstract mixed media, so small editions measuring 1 inches across are also available. Prices for mixed media made by famous or emerging artists can differ depending on medium, time period and other attributes. On 1stDibs, the price for these items starts at $1 and tops out at $385,000, while the average work sells for $2,221.
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