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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
"Eb & Flo, " Mixed Media Collage
"Eb & Flo, " Mixed Media Collage

"Eb & Flo, " Mixed Media Collage

By Michael Thompson

Located in Chicago, IL

Based in Chicago, IL, contemporary artist Michael Thompson creates unique kites, collages and mixed media works assembled from material fragments of past and present collected in his...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Abstract More Art

Materials

Fabric, Silk, Wood

Taos Gorge Landscape, Oil Painting
Taos Gorge Landscape, Oil Painting

Taos Gorge Landscape, Oil Painting

By Elizabeth Garat

Located in San Francisco, CA

Artist Comments
A fall landscape at sunset, with golden clouds rushing across the expansive sky. "Northern New Mexico is known for mythical light, sculptural land forms and d...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Abstract More Art

Materials

Oil

Phacelia, Oil Painting
Phacelia, Oil Painting

Phacelia, Oil Painting

By Crystal DiPietro

Located in San Francisco, CA

Artist Comments
"Many types of phacelia are a welcome and colorful sight in the desert in spring," shares artist Crystal DiPietro. "In this piece, a large purple variety stan...

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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract More Art

Materials

Oil

Home Is Like the Robin's Nest, Oil Painting
Home Is Like the Robin's Nest, Oil Painting

Home Is Like the Robin's Nest, Oil Painting

By Jennifer Ross

Located in San Francisco, CA

Artist Comments
Artist Jennifer Ross paints a sunny and cheerful still life of a robin’s nest occupied with three eggs. Nestled within a carefully woven nook of grass and twigs, three blue eggs appear within its dark recesses. The nest is set against a white surface cut by a bright complementing yellow hue. “Robin’s egg blue is one of the most beautiful colors found in nature, and one found on my palette,” says Jennifer.


About the Artist
Artist Jennifer Ross creates intimate portraits of birds, nests and horses. Jennifer grew up surrounded by the art of her mother and grandfather. Her attempt to follow in their footsteps presented detours, however, and she ended up working in art galleries selling other's work. But her desire to paint continued to grow throughout the years. In 2008, a gift certificate...

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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract More Art

Materials

Oil

Sunny Coronado Beach and Lifeguard Tower, Original Painting
Sunny Coronado Beach and Lifeguard Tower, Original Painting

Sunny Coronado Beach and Lifeguard Tower, Original Painting

Located in San Francisco, CA

Artist Comments
Artist Samuel Pretorius paints a warm and refreshing stretch of Coronado Beach. He displays a quintessentially California composition in charismatic impressionism. The lifeguard tower and palm tree overlook the sea glistening in the late afternoon sun. "I wanted to capture the heat of the sand on a hot summer day with the promise of cooling down in the ocean," says Samuel.


About the Artist


Words that describe this painting: lifeguard tower, beach, Coronado, California, ocean, sand, shore, island, sky, clouds, afternoon, summer, season, seascape...

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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract More Art

Materials

Acrylic

Road to the Water, Original Painting
Road to the Water, Original Painting

Road to the Water, Original Painting

Located in San Francisco, CA

Artist Comments
Sunset along the coast. Dark crimson clouds float over the glowing blue water. In the foreground, the landscape radiates with yellow and red. Benjamin explain...

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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract More Art

Materials

Acrylic

Sunrise at Malibu
Sunrise at Malibu

Sunrise at Malibu

By Elizabeth Garat

Located in San Francisco, CA

Artist Comments
In Sunrise at Malibu, I wanted to capture the rich plum silhouettes of the Santa Monica mountains just after dawn. On clear days after the sun rises, the cap...

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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract More Art

Materials

Oil

Standing in Line, Original Painting
Standing in Line, Original Painting

Standing in Line, Original Painting

Located in San Francisco, CA

Artist Comments
"A group of people, dressed in bright, colorful summer attire, wait in line for the store to open," describes artist John Jaster. "People watching has always ...

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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract More Art

Materials

Acrylic

Bare Trees 3, Oil Painting
Bare Trees 3, Oil Painting

Bare Trees 3, Oil Painting

By Valerie Berkely

Located in San Francisco, CA

Artist Comments
Building up many layers of color in oil paint and cold wax medium, Valerie then used scrapers to reveal the tree trunks in an abstract landscape. Warm orange and yellow trees standing in front of a cool blue and green background. Heavy texture complements the expressionist palette. The piece is part of a series of three works. Although Valerie did not create them as triptych, the three hang well close together.


About the Artist
Valerie Berkely uses her finger tips as brushes to create her abstract paintings. For Valerie, the art is all about the process, the paint, her mood, and the moment. She admires the artist Wolf Kahn, who once said, “the picture is the conclusion of an experiment in which the hint of an image becomes actuality." Like Kahn, Valerie’s paintings combine pictorial landscapes with painterly abstraction. The vibrant primary colors capture the hues of the sun rising and setting, and the texture of her fingers across the surface divides sea, land, and sky. There is something very dreamy about these works, exemplified by their color, texture, and atmospheric quality. Valerie’s first “art epiphany” was seeing Seurat's La Grande Jatte at the Art Institute of Chicago. “Bowled me over! I actually fell down. And I knew I was to become a painter.”


Words that describe this painting: woods, forest, trees, nature, expressionism, nature, non-representational, oil painting, blue


Bare Trees...

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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract More Art

Materials

Oil

Mountain Interval
Mountain Interval

Mountain Interval

By Crystal DiPietro

Located in San Francisco, CA

Artist Comments
I was inspired to create this piece after spending several days in the Henry Mountains in Utah. It was monsoon season and after some storms, the clouds were c...

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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract More Art

Materials

Oil

The golden volcano, Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
The golden volcano, Painting, Acrylic on Canvas

The golden volcano, Painting, Acrylic on Canvas

By Andrada Anghel

Located in Yardley, PA

****This painting will be shipped ready to hang only to USA and Canada. Outside Continental North America it will be shipped rolled in a long sturdy box. If you do not live in North ...

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2010s Abstract More Art

Materials

Acrylic

Slice of Light, Oil Painting
Slice of Light, Oil Painting

Slice of Light, Oil Painting

By Pamela Blaies

Located in San Francisco, CA

Artist Comments
Pamela Blaies was inspired by a little slice of light shining into her studio late one afternoon while she was cleaning up for the day. The illuminated stash ...

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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract More Art

Materials

Oil

Erotic YOBITSUGI STYLE VASE by Aaron Scythe
Erotic YOBITSUGI STYLE VASE by Aaron Scythe

Erotic YOBITSUGI STYLE VASE by Aaron Scythe

By Aaron Scythe

Located in Morton Grove, IL

YOBITSUGI STYLE VASE (INV# NP2717) Aaron Scythe porcelain, clay, underglaze, glaze 8 x 6 x 6” 2020 This vase is made of several different vases, cut apart and enameled back together!

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2010s Abstract More Art

Materials

Porcelain, Stoneware, Glaze

Malayer Persian Rug – Striking Design with Red Patterns
Malayer Persian Rug – Striking Design with Red Patterns

Malayer Persian Rug – Striking Design with Red Patterns

Located in Winterswijk, NL

This piece of jewellery from southern Persia is hand-knotted from fine, hand-spun highland wool and dyed with natural vegetable dye. Highland wool is particularly hard-wearing and du...

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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract More Art

Materials

Silk

Reflections Through The Looking Glass No. 11 - Geometric Colorful Abstract Art
Reflections Through The Looking Glass No. 11 - Geometric Colorful Abstract Art

Reflections Through The Looking Glass No. 11 - Geometric Colorful Abstract Art

Located in Los Angeles, CA

Impasto-painted strokes of bright colors are the framework of artist Shiri Phillips’ abstract artworks. Inspired by the vibrant surroundings she found growing up on the Mediterranean...

Category

2010s Abstract More Art

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic, Ink, Mixed Media

Brushstroke on Celadon

Brushstroke on Celadon

Located in Phoenix, AZ

Cut and Dyed Silk After working in painting and photography, Tim Harding became intrigued with the intimacy of fiber and textiles: their textural, tactile richness, the inherent gri...

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Early 2000s Abstract More Art

Materials

Silk, Dye

Silver Poppies, Sept 7, 2022 (Ed: 22/50)
Silver Poppies, Sept 7, 2022 (Ed: 22/50)

Silver Poppies, Sept 7, 2022 (Ed: 22/50)

By Donald Sultan

Located in Los Angeles, CA

Donald Sultan is an American painter, sculptor, and printmaker. He is particularly well-known for large-scale still life paintings, and one of the first to employ a wide range of ind...

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2010s Abstract More Art

Materials

Screen

Untitled
Untitled

Untitled

Located in New York, NY

This sophisticated sculpture was realized from lymed French oak circa 1950. The perimeter of the piece consists of a mosaic of rectilinear blocks, while the interior rectangular pane...

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1960s Abstract More Art

Materials

Oak

Black Field
Black Field

Black Field

By Adolph Gottlieb

Located in New York, NY

Color screenprint on white wove paper, 1972. Signed by the artist dated in pencil lower left. Numbered 67/150 in pencil lower right. Printed by Kelpra Studio, London, with the ink ...

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1970s Abstract More Art

Materials

Screen, Color

Heartbeat
Heartbeat

Heartbeat

By Angele LaSalle

Located in East Hampton, NY

This Pollock-esque work is layered in details of pours and drips. The artist has total control of where the paint will go. Abstract Expressionism in the new world Artist Statement: ...

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2010s Abstract More Art

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Untitled
Untitled

Untitled

Located in Phoenix, AZ

hand-knotted cotton with silk Nicholas Krushenick (May 31, 1929 – February 5, 1999) was an American abstract painter, collagist and printmaker whose mature artistic style straddled ...

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1970s Abstract More Art

Materials

Cotton

Great Dune

Great Dune

By Paul Dempsey

Located in East Hampton, NY

Snow Fence on Dunes in the Hamptons Black & White Photography Printed to order edition of 10 Title: Great Dune Year: 2018 Medium: Photography (printed on metal) Size: 20" x 30" ...

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2010s Abstract More Art

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Metal

Artist Palette / Statue - Original Abstract Layered Painting
Artist Palette / Statue - Original Abstract Layered Painting

Artist Palette / Statue - Original Abstract Layered Painting

By Brandon Neher

Located in Los Angeles, CA

Califonia artist, Brandon Neher captivates with his figurative abstract artworks that seamlessly blend German Expressionism and Pop Abstraction. His original paintings on canvas embo...

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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract More Art

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Between Breaths

Between Breaths

By Jayne Walther

Located in Santa Monica, CA

**Jayne Walther's "Between Breaths, 2024"** Jayne Walther's "Between Breaths, 2024" is a striking acrylic painting that captures the essence of stillness and introspection. Measurin...

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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract More Art

Materials

Acrylic

"Celestial Pond, " Mixed Media Collage
"Celestial Pond, " Mixed Media Collage

"Celestial Pond, " Mixed Media Collage

By Michael Thompson

Located in Chicago, IL

Based in Chicago, IL, contemporary artist Michael Thompson creates unique kites, collages and mixed media works assembled from material fragments of past and present collected in his...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Abstract More Art

Materials

Fabric, Silk, Wood

Blue Poppies, Sept 7, 2022 (Ed: 22/50)
Blue Poppies, Sept 7, 2022 (Ed: 22/50)

Blue Poppies, Sept 7, 2022 (Ed: 22/50)

By Donald Sultan

Located in Los Angeles, CA

Donald Sultan is an American painter, sculptor, and printmaker. He is particularly well-known for large-scale still life paintings, and one of the first to employ a wide range of ind...

Category

2010s Abstract More Art

Materials

Screen

"Shaped Canvas, " Red & Black Shape Oil on Canvas by Peg Fritsch
"Shaped Canvas, " Red & Black Shape Oil on Canvas by Peg Fritsch

"Shaped Canvas, " Red & Black Shape Oil on Canvas by Peg Fritsch

By Peg Fritsch

Located in Milwaukee, WI

"Shaped Canvas" is an abstract oil painting created by Peg Fritsch. Fritsch shaped the canvas itself with an abstraction of geometric shapes. There is some damage to the lower right ...

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1960s Abstract More Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Unbashed (diptych)
Unbashed (diptych)

Unbashed (diptych)

By Julie Schumer

Located in East Hampton, NY

Large Abstract About the Artist: Julie Schumer, a native of Los Angeles, California, and born in 1954, lives and paints in Santa Fe, New Mexico. She discovered her love of abstract ...

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2010s Abstract More Art

Materials

Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic

Whimsical Wall Art, Small 3D Nature-Inspired Abstract Wall Sculpture in Purple
Whimsical Wall Art, Small 3D Nature-Inspired Abstract Wall Sculpture in Purple

Whimsical Wall Art, Small 3D Nature-Inspired Abstract Wall Sculpture in Purple

By Silvana Ilieva

Located in Sofia, BG

Textured Abstract 3D Organic Sculpture, Nature Inspired Organic Wall Art Dimensions: Height: 15.75 in (40 cm) Width: 11.03 in (28 cm) Depth: 7.88 in (20 cm) Weight: 2.2 lbs / 1 kg...

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2010s Abstract More Art

Materials

Organic Material, Ink, Mixed Media

Joan Kahn Indigo Denim Blue Color Abstract Expressionist Modernist Oil Painting
Joan Kahn Indigo Denim Blue Color Abstract Expressionist Modernist Oil Painting

Joan Kahn Indigo Denim Blue Color Abstract Expressionist Modernist Oil Painting

Located in Surfside, FL

Oil paint on heavy paper. (this might possibly be acrylic paint) This does not appear to be signed. Joan Kahn (USA 1953-) grew up in New York City; Princeton, New Jersey; and Vermont; in an environment that patronized the arts. At home her father, a professor, and mother, a state economist and homemaker, collected nineteenth and twentieth century drawings and prints, Middle eastern rugs, and ceramics, pewter, and old tools. Her grandfather, Max Westfield, was an academically trained portrait painter and her great uncle was a well-known gallery owner and art dealer in pre-World War II Germany. One of the influential experiences of Joan’s youth was visiting her grandfather in his studio in Tennessee where the family had first immigrated. Growing up near New York, and spending a year in Paris during high school, provided formative visits to museums and galleries. Joan was academically talented in grade and high school, but after her father’s death during her first years at university she found herself concentrating on studio and history of art. It was a subject above others absorbed and concentrated her focus. Influential in Joan’s development and later work are the historic movements of the Bauhaus and Modernist design and architecture, geometric art and design of diverse cultures, Color Field Painting. Many artists have had a impact on her work, such as Paul Klee, Piet Mondrian, Sonia Delaunay, Mark Rothko, Ad Reinhardt, Antoni Tapies, David Smith, John McLaughlin, Tony Smith, Louise Nevelson, Robert Mangold, Ellsworth Kelly, Agnes Martin, Valerie Jaudon, Jasper Johns, James Turrell, Robert Irwin, Vija Celmins, Caio Fonseca, Peter Halley, Ed Moses, Juan Usle, and Nancy Haynes...

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1980s Abstract More Art

Materials

Oil

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