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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
Searching, Abstract Painting
Searching, Abstract Painting

Searching, Abstract Painting

By Linda Shaffer

Located in San Francisco, CA

Artist Comments
A multi-layered mixed-media abstract features hand-printed papers, monoprints, exotic papers, travel and original photographs, and papers collected from bits of...

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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Mixed Media

Materials

Mixed Media

Climbing, Abstract Painting
Climbing, Abstract Painting

Climbing, Abstract Painting

By Linda Shaffer

Located in San Francisco, CA

Artist Comments
Artist Linda Shaffer drew inspiration from the joy of traveling, climbing, and discovering new hiking trails to create this mixed-media abstract artwork. The co...

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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Mixed Media

Materials

Mixed Media

MH II (grey gold tan grid optical painting abstract wood neutrals patterns)
MH II (grey gold tan grid optical painting abstract wood neutrals patterns)

MH II (grey gold tan grid optical painting abstract wood neutrals patterns)

By Melisa Taylor Metzger

Located in Quebec, Quebec

Melisa Taylor Metzger’s MH II is a hauntingly immersive optical spray painting on wood, executed with pyrography, airbrushed paint, stencils, and a removed tape grid. The composition...

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2010s Abstract Mixed Media

Materials

Spray Paint, Wood Panel, Acrylic Polymer, Acrylic

Original Drawing Painting Abstract Biomorphic Art Gold Leaf Michele Oka Doner
Original Drawing Painting Abstract Biomorphic Art Gold Leaf Michele Oka Doner

Original Drawing Painting Abstract Biomorphic Art Gold Leaf Michele Oka Doner

By Michele Oka Doner

Located in Surfside, FL

This is mixed media. I am not positive of the materials. it is a translucent, vellum, parchment type of paper. with either charcoal or ink and gold leaf (or gold paint) hand signed in pencil lower right. It is not titled on it. Michele Oka Doner (born 1945, Miami Beach, Florida, United States) is an American artist and author who works in a variety of media including sculpture, lithograph and woodcut prints, drawing, watercolor painting, functional objects and video. Her workes is based on flora, fauna, DNA and all sorts of exotica. She has also worked in costume and set design and has created over 40 public and private permanent art installations, including her best known artwork is "A Walk on the Beach" (1995, 1999), and its extension, "A Walk on the Beach: Tropical Gardens" (1996–2010) at the Miami International Airport. It is composed of over 9000 bronzes embedded in terrazzo with mother-of-pearl. At one and quarter linear miles, it is one of the largest artworks in the world. Born and raised in Miami Beach, Oka Doner is the granddaughter of painter Samuel Heller. Oka Doner's father, Kenneth Oka, was elected judge and mayor of Miami Beach during her youth (1945–1964). The family lived a public and politically active life. In later years, Oka Doner co-authored, with Mitchell Wolfson Jr. Miami Beach: Blueprint of an Eden, an intimate portrayal of Miami Beach from the 1920s to the 1960s using their families as prisms to reflect the times. Reviewed as classic of social history, with material that was part of the public record of its time, it was used as a textbook in Human Geography at George Washington University in 2008. In 1957, age 12, Oka Doner began a year-long independent project studying the International Geophysical Year (IGY). She assembled a book of drawings, writings and collages that became a template for projects realized in later years. In 1963, Oka Doner left Florida for the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Her art instructor Milton Cohen...

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Early 2000s Abstract Mixed Media

Materials

Gold Leaf

"Untitled" Blue Abstract Neon Painting
"Untitled" Blue Abstract Neon Painting

"Untitled" Blue Abstract Neon Painting

By Don Foster

Located in Houston, TX

Large blue mixed media abstract painting with colored neon lights by Texas artist Don Foster. Painting is labeled as "untitled", and dated 1979. Artist Biography: Born in 1933, Don...

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1970s Abstract Mixed Media

Materials

Mixed Media

Stages 1 (diagonal bronze striped grid emerald sage Forest green undercurrent)
Stages 1 (diagonal bronze striped grid emerald sage Forest green undercurrent)

Stages 1 (diagonal bronze striped grid emerald sage Forest green undercurrent)

By Melisa Taylor Metzger

Located in Quebec, Quebec

The series "Stages" explores the marriage of chance-embrassing gestures with exacting grid geometry. Built upon a multilayered convergence of airbrush painting and hard-edge techniq...

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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Mixed Media

Materials

Spray Paint, Acrylic

Psychic Garden (Meteor) - botanical - cyanotype - ethereal - colorful
Psychic Garden (Meteor) - botanical - cyanotype - ethereal - colorful

Psychic Garden (Meteor) - botanical - cyanotype - ethereal - colorful

By Caroline Bullock

Located in Atlanta, GA

This piece is an abstract botanical work on paper featuring hues of blue, tan, pink, green and white in a simple white box frame behind UV Plexiglas. Caroline Bullock is inspired by the work of Agnes Martin, Anish Kapoor, Katharina Grosse, Andy Goldsworthy and Lucy Dodd...

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2010s Abstract Mixed Media

Materials

Acrylic, Archival Paper, Glitter

Breakfast at Tiffany's, Abstract Art Original Painting, One of a Kind

Breakfast at Tiffany's, Abstract Art Original Painting, One of a Kind

By Jakob Gold

Located in Granada Hills, CA

Artist: Jakob Gold Work: Original Acrylic Painting, Handmade Artwork, One of a Kind Medium: Acrylic on Canvas Style: Abstract Unframed, Stretched on Wooden Bar, Gallery Wrapped, Ready to Hang Jakob is best known for his paintings but he also works with a wider range of media, including collages...

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2010s Abstract Mixed Media

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Untitled 4,  From Mexican Ryōan-ji Series
Untitled 4,  From Mexican Ryōan-ji Series

Untitled 4, From Mexican Ryōan-ji Series

By Francisco Larios

Located in Miami Beach, FL

Ryōan-ji is the Japanese Zen temple in Kyoto, a monastery that gave rise to the idea of ​​the purely abstract Zen garden that inspired this series Francisco Larios’ works are done by...

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2010s Abstract Mixed Media

Materials

Gold Leaf

Untitled 2. From Mexican Ryōan-ji Series
Untitled 2. From Mexican Ryōan-ji Series

Untitled 2. From Mexican Ryōan-ji Series

By Francisco Larios

Located in Miami Beach, FL

Ryōan-ji is the Japanese Zen temple in Kyoto, a monastery that gave rise to the idea of ​​the purely abstract Zen garden that inspired this series Francisco Larios’ works are done by...

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2010s Abstract Mixed Media

Materials

Gold Leaf

Untitled 15. From Mexican Ryōan-ji Series
Untitled 15. From Mexican Ryōan-ji Series

Untitled 15. From Mexican Ryōan-ji Series

By Francisco Larios

Located in Miami Beach, FL

Ryōan-ji is the Japanese Zen temple in Kyoto, a monastery that gave rise to the idea of ​​the purely abstract Zen garden that inspired this series Francisco Larios’ works are done by...

Category

2010s Abstract Mixed Media

Materials

Gold Leaf

Untitled 10. From Mexican Ryōan-ji Series
Untitled 10. From Mexican Ryōan-ji Series

Untitled 10. From Mexican Ryōan-ji Series

By Francisco Larios

Located in Miami Beach, FL

Ryōan-ji is the Japanese Zen temple in Kyoto, a monastery that gave rise to the idea of ​​the purely abstract Zen garden that inspired this series Francisco Larios’ works are done by...

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2010s Abstract Mixed Media

Materials

Gold Leaf

Untamed Beauty
Untamed Beauty

Untamed Beauty

Located in West Hollywood, CA

This dynamic diptych artwork bursts with life, featuring a dense forest of tree trunks painted in an eclectic mix of vibrant and muted colors. Each trunk showcases a unique blend of ...

Category

2010s Abstract Mixed Media

Materials

Mixed Media

Pretty As Me, Mixed Media on Canvas
Pretty As Me, Mixed Media on Canvas

Pretty As Me, Mixed Media on Canvas

By Kris Haas

Located in Yardley, PA

The artwork is an abstract piece characterized by a dynamic composition of layered and intersecting rectangular shapes. It features a variety of colors, including blacks, yellows, or...

Category

2010s Abstract Mixed Media

Materials

Mixed Media

Princess Turandot. Scenography. 1930s. Scenography, paper, mixed media, 23x31 cm
Princess Turandot. Scenography. 1930s. Scenography, paper, mixed media, 23x31 cm

Princess Turandot. Scenography. 1930s. Scenography, paper, mixed media, 23x31 cm

By Romans Suta

Located in Riga, LV

Romans Suta Born on April 28, 1896 in the vicinity of Cesis (Latvia), died on July 14, 1944 in Tbilisi (Georgia), rehabilitated posthumously. Painter, graphic artist, decorative and stage designer, art critic and theoretician. Studied at the J. Madernieks' Art Studio (1913), Riga City Art School (1913-1915), and Penza Art School (1915 -1917). A prominent figure and active protagonist of modernist trends in Latvian art. Travels to Berlin and Paris, where he made the acquaintance of A. Ozanfant, Le Corbusier, and others. The influences of Cubism and Constructivism. A member of the Riga Artists' Group (1920-1924) and the Riga Graphic Artists' Society. Painter of still lifes and figural compositions. After the first experiments in Modernism, he turned to a more realistic manner of representation. The initiator and developer of a national constructive style, especially in interior design; the founder of Baltars creative workshop for porcelain painting (1924-1928); a designer and painter at Kuznetsov...

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1930s Abstract Mixed Media

Materials

Paper, Mixed Media

British mid century 3D collage by Cornish artist David Andrew, 2/25
British mid century 3D collage by Cornish artist David Andrew, 2/25

British mid century 3D collage by Cornish artist David Andrew, 2/25

Located in Petworth, West Sussex

A beautiful 3D abstract collage in different materials in muted colours by Cornish artist David Andrew. Andrew was born in Redruth, Cornwall, one of the few internationally recogn...

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20th Century Abstract Mixed Media

Materials

Paper

"Rust" - Small Contemporary Abstract Color-Field - Earth Tone, Off-white, Maroon
"Rust" - Small Contemporary Abstract Color-Field - Earth Tone, Off-white, Maroon

"Rust" - Small Contemporary Abstract Color-Field - Earth Tone, Off-white, Maroon

By Katheryn Holt

Located in Carmel, CA

Katheryn Holt (American, born 1951) "Rust" 2023 Oil paint and mixed media on cradled wood panel The artist signed the back of the painting. 18" x 18" - With Frame: 19" x 19" "Rust"...

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2010s Abstract Mixed Media

Materials

Mixed Media, Oil, Wood, Wood Panel

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By Emmanuelle Vroelant

Located in Saint Pol de Léon, Bretagne

At the beginning, the choice of handmade art paper based on linen rags in a mill in Brittany made me want not to intervene too much on these sheets which is self-sufficient as a p...

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2010s Abstract Mixed Media

Materials

Marble

Circuit,  colorful, abstract collage, 2023
Circuit,  colorful, abstract collage, 2023

Circuit, colorful, abstract collage, 2023

By Linda Schmidt

Located in New York, NY

Linda Schmidt’s fabric sculptures intertwine public and private, luxury and common. There is a sense of egalitarianism present in both the way Schmidt sources and arranges her fabric...

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2010s Abstract Mixed Media

Materials

Fabric, Thread, Pins

Harmony 271
Harmony 271

Harmony 271

By Olivier Ebel

Located in Saint Pol de Léon, Bretagne

Once again, Olivier Ebel surprises us. With a small modification, it transforms a painting into a very modern tray to serve coffee, whisky... and at a very affordable price! Tray or...

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2010s Abstract Mixed Media

Materials

Epoxy Resin, Varnish

Harmony 265
Harmony 265

Harmony 265

By Olivier Ebel

Located in Saint Pol de Léon, Bretagne

Once again, Olivier Ebel surprises us. With a small modification, it transforms a painting into a very modern tray to serve coffee, whisky... and at a very affordable price! Tray or...

Category

2010s Abstract Mixed Media

Materials

Epoxy Resin, Varnish

Harmony
Harmony

Harmony

By Olivier Ebel

Located in Saint Pol de Léon, Bretagne

Once again, Olivier Ebel surprises us. With a small modification, it transforms a painting into a very modern tray to serve coffee, whisky... and at a very affordable price! Tray or...

Category

2010s Abstract Mixed Media

Materials

Epoxy Resin, Varnish

Window to the Cosmos: 1977 Mixed Media Collage on Cardboard
Window to the Cosmos: 1977 Mixed Media Collage on Cardboard

Window to the Cosmos: 1977 Mixed Media Collage on Cardboard

Located in Sitges, Barcelona

Technical Sheet - Title: "Window to the Cosmos" - Artist: Keith Evan Patterson (1925-1993) - Style: Abstract material-poetic - Technique: Mixed media and collage on cardboard...

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1970s Abstract Mixed Media

Materials

Mixed Media

Light-Glyph (Blue)
Light-Glyph (Blue)

Light-Glyph (Blue)

By Casper Brindle

Located in Santa Monica, CA

With Light Glyphs, Casper Brindle presents two new bodies of work, each involving dramatic investigations into light, color and perspective. The results are poetic, sensual and spati...

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2010s Abstract Mixed Media

Materials

Acrylic Polymer, Automotive Paint, Acrylic

Loose Strokes on Sky Blue, Abstract Gestures Patterns, Acrylic Painting on Paper
Loose Strokes on Sky Blue, Abstract Gestures Patterns, Acrylic Painting on Paper

Loose Strokes on Sky Blue, Abstract Gestures Patterns, Acrylic Painting on Paper

Located in Barcelona, ES

"Loose Strokes on Sky Blue" is an abstract painting by Spanish artist Natalia Roman. It is a beautiful series of rhythmic brushstrokes combined with subtle tones and unique shapes th...

Category

2010s Abstract Mixed Media

Materials

Oil, Acrylic, India Ink, Paper

Mosaic Panel, Abstract Mixed Media Painting on Canvas by Hugh Wiley
Mosaic Panel, Abstract Mixed Media Painting on Canvas by Hugh Wiley

Mosaic Panel, Abstract Mixed Media Painting on Canvas by Hugh Wiley

By Hugh Wiley

Located in Long Island City, NY

Artist: Hugh Wiley (1922-2013) Title: Mosaic Panel Year: 1951 Medium: Mixed Media Mosaic on Canvas, signed upper left Image Size: 24 x 17.5 inches Frame Size: 24.25 x 18 inches

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1950s Abstract Mixed Media

Materials

Mixed Media

Plaines & Mines, d'Ombre 2025.2 horizontal (grid pastels pattern wood nature)
Plaines & Mines, d'Ombre 2025.2 horizontal (grid pastels pattern wood nature)

Plaines & Mines, d'Ombre 2025.2 horizontal (grid pastels pattern wood nature)

By Melisa Taylor Metzger

Located in Quebec, Quebec

Plaines & Mines, d’Ombre 2025.2 by Melisa Taylor Metzger envelops the viewer in a delicate tension between structure and atmosphere. Diaphanous layers of cool greens and blues, lilac...

Category

2010s Abstract Mixed Media

Materials

Spray Paint, Wood Panel

GLOWING ROSE, Lee Herring, limited edition print
GLOWING ROSE, Lee Herring, limited edition print

GLOWING ROSE, Lee Herring, limited edition print

By Lee Herring

Located in Deddington, GB

Glowing Rose [2021] limited_edition Giclee print Edition number 20 Image size: H:90 cm x W:90 cm Complete Size of Unframed Work: H:98 cm x W:96 cm x D:0.1cm Sold Unframed Pleas...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Mixed Media

Materials

Giclée

"Mirage", Abstract Expressionist Painting Mixed Media on Canvas
"Mirage", Abstract Expressionist Painting Mixed Media on Canvas

"Mirage", Abstract Expressionist Painting Mixed Media on Canvas

Located in Astoria, NY

Lu D Huang (Chinese/American, XX-XXI), "Mirage", Mixed Media on Canvas, titled verso, unframed. 77.75" H x 48.5" W x 1.5" D. Provenance: A New York City Collection.

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Mixed Media

Materials

Canvas, Paper, Found Objects, Oil, Acrylic

Successful Raid, Mixed Media on Canvas
Successful Raid, Mixed Media on Canvas

Successful Raid, Mixed Media on Canvas

By Matthew Dibble

Located in Yardley, PA

My paintings do have a story to tell although it does not lie in each piece but in the process of abstract expressionism. As an artist I think about scale, unity and color. I'm not t...

Category

2010s Abstract Mixed Media

Materials

Mixed Media

Abstract mixed media for sale on 1stDibs.

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.