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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
Quadrille IV
Quadrille IV

Quadrille IV

Located in Los Angeles, CA

This unframed, signed, limited edition pigment print by renown artist Patsy Krebs exists in an edition of 30. Paper size is 37"h x 35"w with an image size of 26.5"h x 26.5"w. Patsy ...

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2010s Abstract More Art

Materials

Cotton, Pigment, Pigment, Archival Pigment, Digital Pigment

Framed Mixed Media Colorful Portait Painting: The Convict
Framed Mixed Media Colorful Portait Painting: The Convict

Framed Mixed Media Colorful Portait Painting: The Convict

Located in New York, NY

As a multidisciplinary artist, Jenny Flexner Reinhardt explores a range of mediums, including painting, sculpture, collage, and mixed-media. Her art delves into the complexities of m...

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2010s Abstract More Art

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Mixed Media

Anticipation
Anticipation

Anticipation

By Richard Lytle

Located in Milford, NH

This large exceptional abstract was painted by American artist Richard Lytle (born 1935). Lytle was born in Albany, New York, studied at the Cooper Union School of Art and the Yale University School of Art, where he received a BFA and MFA. He was included in the Museum of Modern Art’s Sixteen Americans exhibition in 1959. He began teaching in 1960 at Yale, which began a forty year career as a teacher, professor, and dean. He has had numerous one-man and group exhibitions, and he received the Augustus Saint...

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Mid-20th Century Abstract More Art

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Canvas, Oil

Goddess 4
Goddess 4

Goddess 4

By Gary Mankus

Located in Los Angeles, CA

This unframed, signed, limited edition pigment print by artist Gary Mankus exists in an edition of 40. Paper size is 37"h x 35"w with an image size of 29"h x 29"w. Gary Mankus was b...

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2010s Abstract More Art

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Cotton, Digital, Pigment, Archival Pigment, Digital Pigment

Till It's Time to Go No. 3

Till It's Time to Go No. 3

By Jeri Eisenberg

Located in Westport, CT

Jeri Eisenberg creates nature inspired works in single panels, diptychs and triptychs. Her soft colored photographic pieces are created using non-traditional and alternative photo-ba...

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2010s Abstract More Art

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Photographic Film, Encaustic, Handmade Paper

Large Budd Hopkins Modernist Hard Edged Abstract Expressionist Oil Painting 1965
Large Budd Hopkins Modernist Hard Edged Abstract Expressionist Oil Painting 1965

Large Budd Hopkins Modernist Hard Edged Abstract Expressionist Oil Painting 1965

Located in Surfside, FL

Budd Hopkins, American (1931-2011) Strike Red Oil on canvas, 1965, signed 'Hopkins' and dated lower right. Dimensions: 85 x81 in., 86 x 52 in. with frame. Provenance: bears partial label remnant verso from Poindexter Gallery. (a major gallery founded in 1955 in New York City by Elinor Poindexter. The gallery specialized in sculpture, abstract, and figurative art and featured the works of such artists as Richard Diebenkorn, Jules Olitski, Nell Blaine, Al Held, Willem de Kooning, Franz Kline, Earl Kerkam, Milton Resnick and Robert De Niro, among others. Budd Hopkins was one of the leading proponents of the "hard-edge" abstract minimalist school of painting in the 1950s and 1960s, Budd Hopkins (born 1931) created works that show the strong influence of Jackson Pollock and other leading painters of the Abstract Expressionism movement. Hopkins' paintings are now in numerous major collections, including the San Francisco Museum of Art, the Guggenheim Museum in New York, and the Hirshhorn Collection in Washington, DC. Recently, he has also been recognized for his research into the matter of UFOs and one of his books, "The Intruders", printed by Random House, was on the New York Times best-seller list and was the basis for a television show on CBS. Born in 1931, he is a graduate of Linsly Military Institute (now Linsly School) in 1949 and Oberlin College in 1953. He first displayed artistic abilities when, as a child recovering from a long-term illness, he began to create sculptures of ships made out of modeling clay. But it wasn't until he arrive at Oberlin that he made a serious study of art. Later, Hopkins included abstracted figures in his sculptural pieces. While moving away from Abstract Expressionism, Hopkins retained in his work the use of intense colors and hard-edged forms. His works of the 1980s, including Temples and Guardians, featured these "sentinels" who were, according to Hopkins, "participating in a frozen ritual, fixed – absolutely – within a privileged space..." Though Hopkins denied any connection, some critics viewed these ritualistic pieces as an extension of Hopkins' fascination with alien beings. Hopkins viewed his sculpted guardians not as human per se, but as magical, fierce, noble robots of the unconscious. He settled in New York after obtaining his degree and has had a residence there ever since. He and his wife, April Kingsley, and their daughter, Grace, divide their time between their home at Cape Cod, Mass., and that in New York City. In his work, he travels widely. He has exhibited in England, Finland, Italy and Switzerland. In 1963, Hopkins was selected by the Columbia Broadcasting System as one of the 15 painters featured in the network's first television special on American art. In 1958, Art News picked him as one of 12 Americans for exhibition in Spoleto, Italy, in the "Festival of Two Worlds." His brilliance has won him a number of fellowships and awards. In 1972, the West Virginia Arts and Humanities Council awarded him its Commission Prize. In 1976, he received the John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship for Painting and in '79 he received a fellowship from the National Endowment of the Arts. He also won a special project grant from the New York State Council on the Arts in 1982. He was friends with Robert Ryman and many of the other 10th street avant garde artists. He was an original member of March Gallery which showed Alice Baber, Elaine de Kooning, Mark di Suvero, Lester Johnson, Matsumi Kanemitsu. His art has been featured in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Museum of Modern Art, Bronx Museum of Art, Brooklyn Museum, Whitney Museum, Corcoran Gallery, Guggenheim Museum, Queens Museum in New York, and the Public Library of New York. He was included in Young America 1960: Thirty American Painters Under Thirty-Six buy Lloyd Goodrich at the Whitney Museum of American Art in NYC. Artists included: Sonia Gechtoff, Edward Giobbi, Ron Gorchov, James Harvey, Budd Hopkins, Wolf Kahn, Alex Katz, Robert Natkin, Rudy Pozzatti, Dean Richardson, Frank Roth, William Wiley, and Noriko Yamamoto...

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1960s Abstract More Art

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Paint

Goddess 3
Goddess 3

Goddess 3

By Gary Mankus

Located in Los Angeles, CA

This unframed, signed, limited edition pigment print by artist Gary Mankus exists in an edition of 40. Paper size is 37"h x 35"w with an image size of 29"h x 29"w. Gary Mankus was b...

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2010s Abstract More Art

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Cotton, Digital, Pigment, Archival Pigment, Digital Pigment

Abstract Blue-Green Oil Pastel by Paul Reed with Pops of Yellow and Red
Abstract Blue-Green Oil Pastel by Paul Reed with Pops of Yellow and Red

Abstract Blue-Green Oil Pastel by Paul Reed with Pops of Yellow and Red

By Paul Reed

Located in Oklahoma City, OK

This vibrant drawing created with oil pastels by Paul Reed presents a light, wispy composition with the deepest blues set slightly off-center left. The blotted pastels become a gradi...

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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract More Art

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Oil Pastel

Signed, Dated, Original Ed Moses Painting
Signed, Dated, Original Ed Moses Painting

Signed, Dated, Original Ed Moses Painting

By Ed Moses

Located in Los Angeles, CA

"Tibbar"- A dramatic, large abstract, acrylic-on-canvas painting by important, Los Angeles artist, Ed Moses (1926-2018) whose distinguished career earned him solo exhibitions at LACM...

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Early 2000s Abstract More Art

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Canvas, Acrylic

Organic Way - Original Minimalist Blush and Blue Modern Abstract Painting
Organic Way - Original Minimalist Blush and Blue Modern Abstract Painting

Organic Way - Original Minimalist Blush and Blue Modern Abstract Painting

By Clara Berta

Located in Los Angeles, CA

Clara Berta’s acrylic and mixed-media paintings blend texture and color to create harmony, mystery, and depth on the painted surface. Her paintings transform spaces into Zen environm...

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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract More Art

Materials

Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic

Drops sprinkling my discontinuous trip
Drops sprinkling my discontinuous trip

Drops sprinkling my discontinuous trip

By L.G.

Located in Paris, FR

One of a kind Blown and fused Glasswhite silver transparent and matte white and noir. Includes its black metal base ( about 32 cm X 10 cm X 18 cm ). Total weight about 20 to 25 k...

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2010s Abstract More Art

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Blown Glass

Elder Sister, Oil Painting
Elder Sister, Oil Painting

Elder Sister, Oil Painting

Located in San Francisco, CA

Artist Comments
The smooth bark of the madrone tree, with its orange, copper, and red hues, contrasts beautifully with its cool green leaves. A soft lavender shadow falls on th...

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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract More Art

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Oil

Finding the Universe in Oaxaca, Sunset

Finding the Universe in Oaxaca, Sunset

By Gary Goldberg

Located in San Francisco, CA

Gary Goldberg Finding the Universe in Oaxaca, Sunset, 2018 Dry wool needle felting 48 x 32 in Edition of 3 One of Gary Goldberg’s photographs from his Finding the Universe in Oaxaca...

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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract More Art

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Textile, Felt

Abstract Expressionist Color Block Painting Mod Architect Irving Haynes RISD
Abstract Expressionist Color Block Painting Mod Architect Irving Haynes RISD

Abstract Expressionist Color Block Painting Mod Architect Irving Haynes RISD

Located in Surfside, FL

Irving B Haynes FAIA (1927 – 2005) Painting on heavy paper Hand initialed recto and hand signed and dated verso Irving B Haynes FAIA (1927 – 2005) was an American architect and preservationist. He practiced architectural design in Pawtucket and Providence, Rhode Island from 1961 to 1994 and taught at the Rhode Island School of Design from 1973 to 2005. Irving Bogle Haynes was born on January 14, 1927, in Waterville, Maine. He was educated at Colby College before transferring to the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD), graduating with a BFA in 1951 and a BS in architecture in 1954. He worked for architects Robinson, Green & Beretta from 1954 to 1957 and for Harkness & Geddes from 1957 to 1958 before joining the Pawtucket firm of Monahan, Meikle & Johnson. After the retirements of Monahan and Meikle, in 1961 Haynes became a partner in the reorganized Johnson & Haynes. When Johnson retired from practice in 1968 Haynes succeeded to the business, and moved it to Providence in 1970. The business was reorganized as Irving B. Haynes & Associates in 1978 with the addition of Cornelis de Boer, and as Haynes/de Boer Associates in 1994 when Haynes retired from practice. A former professor at the prestigious Rhode Island School of Design (RISD), Haynes was a true renaissance man: war veteran, architect, talented athlete, photographer and jazz pianist. He then went on to have a distinguished career as a painter and architect for nearly half a century. Painting, however, was Haynes’ true passion. A confirmed “modernist", he utilized a variety of media on paper -- crayon, wax, watercolor, oil painting and acrylic -- to manipulate light, texture, shape and line. He was especially renowned for his skillful use of color. They have a densequilt like color field, cubist feel to them. His friend and colleague at RISD, Thomas Lyon Mills, told the Brown Daily Herald, “Irving admired other painters whose idealistic search for precision often was a difficult one...He loved Paul Cezanne...Cezanne’s color and rock-solid compositions that were at once flat and spatial.” In 2005, just a few months after his death, RISD’s Industrial Design Department Gallery hosted an exhibition of his most recent works called “Irving B. Haynes: Paintings, 2001-2005”. In 2009 the Newport Art Museum held another retrospective titled "Irving B. Haynes, Abstractions: 1960-2005". Examples of his work are in the permanent collections of the Newport Art Museum and the RISD Art Museum. Haynes became known both as an architect and preservationist early in his career. In the 1960s he was responsible for some of the most outstanding new works in urban renewal areas in Pawtucket and Providence and was responsible for the reconstruction and restoration of the First Unitarian Church of Providence following a devastating fire. Later he restored Providence City Hall and the Westminster Arcade and in 1981, along with William D. Warner and Friedrich St. Florian, Haynes devised the original scheme for Waterplace Park, later executed by Warner. Haynes joined the American Institute of Architects in 1962 and was elected a Fellow in 1982. In 1973 Haynes joined the RISD faculty, teaching foundation studies. In 1980 he was promoted to assistant professor and after his retirement from practice focused on his teaching. He became a full professor in 1997 and retired in 2005, shortly before his death. RISD is one of the great art campuses and has produced Famous Artists and Designers such as Shepard Fairey, Kara Walker, Jenny Holzer, Dale Chihuly, Do-Ho Suh , Tavares Strachan and Rose B. Simpson. Notable Faculty have include Diane Arbus, Jennifer Packer...

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Early 2000s Abstract More Art

Materials

Paint, Paper

Hotlanta, Oil Painting
Hotlanta, Oil Painting

Hotlanta, Oil Painting

By Mary Pratt

Located in San Francisco, CA

Artist Comments
"Atlanta's oldest neighborhood, Inman Park, is a popular destination for locals, the movie industry and visitors," explains artist Mary Pratt. "I was walking through Inman Park with my daughter and spotted these cool chicks and approached them to photograph. My daughter, mortified changed direction. The women, who worked in the movie industry, offered to pose on a bench outside...

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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract More Art

Materials

Oil

REST EASY, Freestyle Resin Art, Unique Piece, handmade
REST EASY, Freestyle Resin Art, Unique Piece, handmade

REST EASY, Freestyle Resin Art, Unique Piece, handmade

Located in München, BY

Unique Piece handmade Resin and Pigments on Wood As a self-taught artist, he uses the unique expression of resin materials to create fascinating works of art. Daniel combines variou...

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2010s Abstract More Art

Materials

Resin, Epoxy Resin, Wood

Denmark Hill Return, Oil on Canvas, Geometric Pattern Horizontal Painting
Denmark Hill Return, Oil on Canvas, Geometric Pattern Horizontal Painting

Denmark Hill Return, Oil on Canvas, Geometric Pattern Horizontal Painting

By Jon Probert

Located in Kingsclere, GB

Denmark Hill Return, Oil on Canvas Painting by Jon Probert B. 1966 Additional information: Medium: Oil on canvas Dimensions: 77 x 153 cm 30 1/4 x 60 1/4 in Signed verso Having stud...

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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract More Art

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Canvas, Oil

Any day now II, Freestyle Resin Art, Unique Piece, handmade
Any day now II, Freestyle Resin Art, Unique Piece, handmade

Any day now II, Freestyle Resin Art, Unique Piece, handmade

Located in München, BY

Unique Piece handmade Resin and Pigments on Wood As a self-taught artist, he uses the unique expression of resin materials to create fascinating works of art. Daniel combines variou...

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2010s Abstract More Art

Materials

Resin, Epoxy Resin, Wood

"Time Warp" Hand Embroidery with Colored Pencil on Paper
"Time Warp" Hand Embroidery with Colored Pencil on Paper

"Time Warp" Hand Embroidery with Colored Pencil on Paper

By Kelly Kozma

Located in Philadelphia, PA

This fabric work titled "Time Warp" is an original artwork by Kelly Kozma made of hand embroidery, colored pencil & acrylic paint on paper. The piece measures 15”h by 15”w framed...

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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract More Art

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Thread, Acrylic, Archival Paper, Color Pencil

"Cool GIide" Contemporary Abstract Painting
"Cool GIide" Contemporary Abstract Painting

"Cool GIide" Contemporary Abstract Painting

By Debra Drexler

Located in New York, NY

48'x72" acrylic and oil on canvas, signed on reverse by the artist. This is a contemporary abstract painting by the New York/ Hawaiian artist, Debra Drexler. Hot pink, vibrant orang...

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2010s Abstract More Art

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Canvas, Oil, Acrylic

Ripples at the Bend, Oil Painting
Ripples at the Bend, Oil Painting

Ripples at the Bend, Oil Painting

By Onelio Marrero

Located in San Francisco, CA

Artist Comments
Artist Onelio Marrero shares a glimpse into the world he inhabits with a view from his daily walks. "I have always been attracted to the surface of the water ...

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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract More Art

Materials

Oil

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