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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
Period: 1990s
"Vent", 1992, Oil and Mixed Media by John MacWhinnie
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: John MacWhinnie, American (1946 - ) Title: Vent Year: 1992 Medium: Oil and Mixed Media on Canvas, signed and dated verso Size: 38 x 24 in. (96.52 x 60.96 cm)
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1990s Abstract Mixed Media

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Oil

Concha
Located in Cuernavaca, Morelos
Encaustic paint on fabric and on an engraving plate
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1990s Abstract Mixed Media

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Fabric, Encaustic

Mixed Media Abstract Painting by Gustavo Rivera
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Gustavo Rivera, Mexican (1940 - ) Title: Untitled - Blue Abstract Medium: Mixed Media Collage, signed l.r. Size: 23.5 x 31.5 in. (59.69 x 80.01 cm) Frame Size: 29.5 x 37 inches
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1990s Abstract Mixed Media

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Mixed Media, Acrylic

"Minutiae II, " a Fiber Collage Mixed Media signed by Jeanne Smith
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Minutiae II" is a fiber collage mixed media fiber collage by Jeanne Smith. The artist begins by dyeing background fabric, in this instance tie-dyeing, which creates an irregular pat...
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1990s Abstract Mixed Media

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Textile, Mixed Media

"Desire/Desire" Contemporary Abstract
By Melanie Millar
Located in Houston, TX
Oil paint transferred onto a Masonite board. Mainly yellow tones with decorative foliage. Framed in a white frame with a white matte. Artist Biography: Melanie Millar isa painter living and working in Houston, Texas. She has exhibited her work in one-person shows, group-shows and juried competitions nationally. Her work is in private and corporate collections, as well as in the collection of the Museum of Fine Art, Houston. She grew up in New Jersey but later moved to Houston, Texas. Her undergraduate degree is from the University of Texas. In 1999, she completed an MFA in painting and drawing at the University of North Texas, Denton Texas...
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1990s Abstract Mixed Media

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Masonite, Oil

"Sirene II" - Abstract Expressionist Mixed Media
Located in Soquel, CA
Collotype and collage with linen, paper and gouache. Layers of texture create a rich visual assemblage. Signed lower right and on verso; signature illegible, Artists Proof. Displayed...
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1990s Abstract Mixed Media

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Gouache, Linen, Lithograph, Paper

"Fishing for the Unknown, " a Mixed Media on Paper signed by Dan Muller
Located in Milwaukee, WI
Contemporary abstract multicolored "Fishing for the Unknown", 1997, mixed media on paper, signed. 6 3/4" x 6 1/4" art 14 7/8" x 14 1/4" framed Born in 1960 in Miles City, Montana, ...
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1990s Abstract Mixed Media

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Mixed Media

Abstract Composition VM, 1995 - mixed media, 65x65 cm, framed
Located in Nice, FR
Mixed media on plywood, signed lower right.
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1990s Abstract Mixed Media

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Mixed Media

American Abstract Painting
Located in Houston, TX
Eye catching abstract mixed media painting blending vivid jewel tone colors by American artist Kismine Varner, 1990. Signed and dated lower right. Original artwork on paper displaye...
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1990s Abstract Mixed Media

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Paper, Acrylic

SALLE, David. Light Sleeper. By Paul Schrader
Located in New York, NY
SALLE, David. Light Sleeper. By Paul Schrader. Illustrated with 12 lithographs by David Salle. Folio, bound in linen with an inset photograph in orginal ...
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1990s Abstract Mixed Media

Foot Musik.
Located in Malmo, SE
Pastel, gouache and coffee on paper. Artwork size: 58 x 56 cm. Frame size: 78 x 76 cm. Free shipment worldwide. Acquired directly from the artist. Archive number (P90/37) “The heart is an eye,” writes Nobel laureate Octavio Paz in an essay on Matta’s paintings. Matta creates a world coloured both by a sunny faith in the future and by visions of impending doom. Roberto Sebastian Echaurren Antonio Matta, who died aged 91 on 23 November 2002, was born in Santiago, Chile, on 11 November 1911 into a family with Spanish, French and Basque roots, and raised in an atmosphere of religiosity. By the age of 21 he had graduated and begun work as an architect, but his leisure time he devoted to sketching and painting. In 1933 he travelled to Europe for the first time, visiting Greece, Yugoslavia, Italy and other countries, and subsequently taking the initiative to collaborate with the architect, Le Corbusier. As time passed, however, Matta’s enthusiasm for a career in architecture waned, and he began to devote himself full-time to art, making early acquaintances with surrealists such as Max Ernst, Salvador Dalí, André Breton and others. Between 1939 and 1948 Matta, like many of his artistic contemporaries, lived in self-imposed exile in the USA, but, after almost 10 years’ absence from Europe, he returned to make first Rome and then, a few years later, Paris his home. Throughout most of the rest of his life Matta commuted between his studio in Paris and his creative refuge in the monastery outside Rome. And it is here, in Italy, that he produced his greatest paintings. Matta’s first retrospective in Sweden was organised in 1956 when his works were exhibited in what was then Galerie Colibri – run by, among others, the artist C O Hultén at number 36 Södra Förstadsgatan in Malmö, Sweden. This was also the time when Matta began to collaborate with poets and other artists in Sweden. He produced the illustrations for Lasse Söderberg’s first anthology of poems, Akrobaterna (“The Acrobats”), published in 1955, and was also responsible for the cover of the Swedish art and literary magazine Salamander. In 1959 the first museum exhibition of Matta’s work in Europe was arranged at the Museum of Modern Art (Moderna Museet) in Stockholm. Held under the aegis of Pontus Hultén, it was entitled “Fifteen Forms of Doubt” and included 15 or so gigantic paintings...
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1990s Abstract Mixed Media

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Mixed Media

Huge Abstract Modernist "August Series" Mixed Media Monotype Colorful Painting
Located in Surfside, FL
Terence La Noue was born in Hammond, Indiana in 1941. He received a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Ohio Wesleyan University in 1964. After going to Berlin as a Fulbright Meister Student ...
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1990s Abstract Mixed Media

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Paint, Mixed Media, Monotype

Mixed media, oil painting, Stanley Boxer 'Pindewegunglasgemut'
Located in White Plains, NY
Available at Madelyn Jordon Fine Art. 'Pindewegunglasgemut' by Stanley Boxer, 1994. Oil and mixed media on canvas, 50 x 26.75 in. / Frame: 51 x 27.75 in. This painting has an active...
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1990s Abstract Mixed Media

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Canvas, Mixed Media, Oil

Mixed media, oil painting, Stanley Boxer, Goodbyagain (Toodleoonocheinmal)
Located in White Plains, NY
Available at Madelyn Jordon Fine Art. 'Goodbyagain (Toodleoonocheinmal)' by Stanley Boxer, 1999-2000. Oil and mixed media on canvas, 40.5 x 31 ...
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1990s Abstract Mixed Media

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Canvas, Mixed Media, Oil

Mixed media, oil painting, Stanley Boxer, Marblemanandfaith
Located in White Plains, NY
Available at Madelyn Jordon Fine Art. 'Marblemanandfaith' by Stanley Boxer, 1991. Oil and mixed media on canvas, 8 x 4 in. / Frame: 9 x 4.5 x 2...
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1990s Abstract Mixed Media

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Canvas, Mixed Media, Oil

Mixed media, Oil Painting, Stanley Boxer, 'Marblemanblossom'
Located in White Plains, NY
Available at Madelyn Jordon Fine Art. 'Marblemanblossom' by Stanley Boxer, 1991. Oil and mixed media on canvas, 6.25 x 4.75 in. / Frame: 7 x 5....
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1990s Abstract Mixed Media

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Canvas, Mixed Media, Oil

Blade
Located in New York, NY
Susana Jamie-Mena is a visual artist from Argentina, the uniqueness in her paintings, is that she blurred the lines between painting and sculpture, and her works looked like they cou...
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1990s Abstract Mixed Media

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Steel

"Oranges July 4 1991" Modern Abstract Geometric Black and White Charcoal Drawing
Located in Houston, TX
Modern black and white charcoal still life drawing by iconic abstract artist Donald Sultan. The work features a dynamic composition of circular forms set against a white background. The rich black tones, emblematic of Sultan's work, make this work pop. Titled, dated, and signed along top margin. Currently hung in a complementary black floating frame. Dimensions Without Frame: H 48 in. x W 60 in. Artist Biography: Born in 1951 in Asheville, North Carolina, Donald Sultan rose...
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1990s Abstract Mixed Media

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Paper, Charcoal

Huge Abstract Modernist "August Series" Mixed Media Monotype Colorful Painting
Located in Surfside, FL
Terence La Noue was born in Hammond, Indiana in 1941. He received a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Ohio Wesleyan University in 1964. After going to Berlin as a Fulbright Meister Student ...
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1990s Abstract Mixed Media

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Paint, Mixed Media, Monotype

Clodgy - St Ives, Modern British Painting, Abstract Art - Sandra Blow (Abstract)
Located in London, GB
Clodgy - St Ives, Modern British Painting, Abstract Art - Sandra Blow (Abstract) Signed and inscribed with title and date on the canvas overlap Sandra Blow RA (1925-2006) pioneered ...
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1990s Abstract Mixed Media

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Mixed Media, Acrylic, Canvas

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