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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
"Bamboo Sunset (Persimmon), " Mixed Media Kite
"Bamboo Sunset (Persimmon), " Mixed Media Kite

"Bamboo Sunset (Persimmon), " Mixed Media Kite

By Michael Thompson

Located in Chicago, IL

Chicago-based artist Michael Thompson creates unique kites crafted from split bamboo frames covered with stretched muslin and a collage of vintage Asian ephemera - including fragment...

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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract More Art

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Muslin, Wood, Paper

"Sawyer, " Mixed Media Kite
"Sawyer, " Mixed Media Kite

"Sawyer, " Mixed Media Kite

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...

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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract More Art

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Fabric, Silk, Wood

"Aquatic Forest" Contemporary Large Scale Abstract Painting, violet, turquoise
"Aquatic Forest" Contemporary Large Scale Abstract Painting, violet, turquoise

"Aquatic Forest" Contemporary Large Scale Abstract Painting, violet, turquoise

By Debra Drexler

Located in New York, NY

This is a large scale, contemporary abstract painting by the New York/ Hawaiian artist, Debra Drexler. Vertical elongated forms in rose pink, mauve, lavender and turquoise blue rise over a layered field of cream white brushed with violet. Washes of red and orange fade into hot pink in this vibrant abstract painting by the artist. You can see the influence of tropical colors in this canvas and a wistful yearning for the beach and the sea. Debra Drexler is an American painter, installation artist, curator and professor. Her work is informed both by participating in the contemporary resurgence of abstraction coming out of New York, and by living in the Post Colonial Pacific since 1992. She has participated in over thirty solo and over 100 group exhibitions in national and international venues including Front Room Gallery, Exit Art, The Drawing Center, White Box-The Annex, Art Finance Partners, Van Der Plas Gallery, Sideshow Gallery, and Denise Bibro Gallery in New York, as well The Honolulu Museum of Art and Maui Arts and Cultural Center. Debra Drexler is a Professor at the University of Hawaii, where she is Chair of the Drawing and Painting Area. She maintains studios in Brooklyn, NY and on the island of Oahu in Hawai’i. Debra Drexler's most recent work is highly experimental large-scale abstract painting. In a recent review of a two-person exhibition (Whitehot Magazine,2017) Drexler's work as clearly referencing the long tradition of American abstraction and the established legacy of the New York School. The reviewer, Jonathan Goodman, described the work as a “new non-objectivity” that comes out of the current moment. He states that Drexler's painting “quite accurately describes the spirit of abstract art today, in which painting is struggling to break free of the constraints of time." Debra Drexler frequently uses hot pink, a color with heavily gendered associations. Her hot pink brushstrokes...

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2010s Abstract More Art

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Canvas, Acrylic

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

Skyline (New York)
Skyline (New York)

Skyline (New York)

Located in New York, NY

Oil on canvas. Signed, titled on stretcher on recto. Bartolomucci was an Italian painter who became one of the founders of Astralism. He moved to New York in 1960 where he remain...

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1960s Abstract More Art

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Canvas, Oil

L26
L26

L26

By Hans Hartung

Located in New York, NY

Color lithograph on Rives BFK wove paper, 1957. Signed by the artist in pencil, lower right margin, and numbered 96/100 in pencil, lower left margin. Published by Hedwig Marbach, B...

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1950s Abstract More Art

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Lithograph, Color

avp_1619 - Original Abstract Purple Tone Contemporary Acrylic Painting on Paper
avp_1619 - Original Abstract Purple Tone Contemporary Acrylic Painting on Paper

avp_1619 - Original Abstract Purple Tone Contemporary Acrylic Painting on Paper

By Alex Voinea

Located in Los Angeles, CA

The colorful abstract artworks of Romanian artist Alex Voinea are inspired by experiments with paint poured over vibrating surfaces, such as speakers at full volume. Alex Voinea coll...

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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract More Art

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Paper, Acrylic

“Planet Dancing” contemporary abstract painting, cool tones, curved lines & form
“Planet Dancing” contemporary abstract painting, cool tones, curved lines & form

“Planet Dancing” contemporary abstract painting, cool tones, curved lines & form

By Gene Johnson

Located in Sag Harbor, NY

A contemporary painting by NYC's Gene Johnson. A balance of values, texture, line and form. Unframed. Signed "Gene Johnson" on verso. Gene Johnson has been painting and exhibiting ...

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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract More Art

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Canvas, Acrylic

Dogwood Canopy 2

Dogwood Canopy 2

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

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

"Vega" - Vintage Glass Sculpture
"Vega" - Vintage Glass Sculpture

"Vega" - Vintage Glass Sculpture

Located in Westport, CT

Resurrect Studio, “Vega,” Recycled Victorian-Era Glass Sculpture, 12 x 12 x 14 in. Named for the brightest star in the Lyra constellation, “Vega” is a luminous recycled glass sculpt...

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2010s Abstract More Art

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Glass, Resin

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

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Cotton, Pigment, Pigment, Archival Pigment, Digital Pigment

Untitled (Remembered): Abstract Acrylic Painting on Wood Panel, 21st Century
Untitled (Remembered): Abstract Acrylic Painting on Wood Panel, 21st Century

Untitled (Remembered): Abstract Acrylic Painting on Wood Panel, 21st Century

By Jeremy Nichols

Located in Philadelphia, PA

This is an original painting on panel by artist Jeremy Nichols. The piece ships ready to hang in the pictured floater frame and measures 24in height x 18in width. The artist had recently focused on mainly graphite works in this style in recent years and this piece marks an exciting transition back to including paint and color in his process. Jeremy Nichols was born in Tokyo, Japan in 1982. He spent most of his youth in the suburbs of Columbus, Ohio and traveling back and forth from Tokyo, Japan. After high school, he went to the Ohio State University to study Printmaking under Charles Massey...

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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract More Art

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Acrylic, Wood Panel

"Wild at Heart", Original Abstract Painting
"Wild at Heart", Original Abstract Painting

"Wild at Heart", Original Abstract Painting

By Sandy Palasti

Located in Westport, CT

This striking abstract floral painting by Sandy Palasti, titled Wild at Heart, channels raw emotion through bold gesture and color. A dynamic composition of layered brushstrokes in d...

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2010s Abstract More Art

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Canvas, Acrylic

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

Framed Mixed Media Colorful Portait Painting: The Witness

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

Finding the Universe in Oaxaca, Night Sky

Finding the Universe in Oaxaca, Night Sky

By Gary Goldberg

Located in San Francisco, CA

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

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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract More Art

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Textile, Felt

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

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

Composicion #23
Composicion #23

Composicion #23

Located in Milford, NH

A fine Mid Century vertical abstract expressionist oil painting by Panamanian artist Antonio Alvarado (b. 1938). Antonio studied under the figurative ...

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1960s Abstract More Art

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Canvas, Oil

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

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