Abstract Paintings
Abstract Paintings For Sale
Color: Red
Two-for-One, Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
By Newel Hunter
Located in Yardley, PA
"Two-for-One" is painted with acrylic on 18 x 24 inch museum-quality loose canvas, easily mounted and framed. This expressive, colorful, and thoughtful image is a reflection of Hunt...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Birth - Acrylic by A.M. Caboni - 2014
Located in Roma, IT
Birth is a lovely painting realized by the Italian artist Anna Maria Caboni in 2014. The artwork is an acrylic painting unframed.
The artwork is hand-signed and hand-dated "AMC 14" ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Sun Zoom Spark (Abstract painting)
Located in London, GB
Sun Zoom Spark (Abstract painting)
Acrylic and pumice on post office bag, linen, hessian sacking and canvas - Unframed.
Anthony Frost, son of Sir Terry Frost RA, is an English abst...
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Canvas
Abstract City Landscape - Late 20th Century Acrylic Painting by Amrik Varkalis
Located in Watford, Hertfordshire
Abstract City Landscape - Late 20th Century Acrylic Painting by Amrik Varkalis
Amrik Varkalis trained at The Manchester School of Art in the 1970's. Sh...
Category
Late 20th Century Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Canvas
Agora Project No. 7
Located in Burlingame, CA
Mexican-American contemporary visual artist and celebrated architect Javier Arizmendi-Kalb created this abstract painting with bold brush stokes creating strong visual zest and appea...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Cut-Up 21-3 (Abstract painting)
Located in London, GB
Cut-Up 21-3 (Abstract painting)
Acrylic on canvas - Unframed.
Pedersen works with acrylic paint.
When painting a composition, she tends toward a limited color palette, often reduc...
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Jam Line
By Ella Freire
Located in Deddington, GB
Jam Line [2021]
original
Acrylic on board
Image size: H:40cm cm x W:40cm cm
Complete Size of Unframed Work: H:2cm cm x W:40 x 40 cm cm x D:2cmcm
Sold Unframed
Please note that insitu images are purely an indication of how a piece may look
Warm pinks and orange with a dash of blue, evocative of my sunny morning walks on my favourite beach in Santa Teresa...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Board
There (Abstract Painting)
By Dana Gordon
Located in London, GB
There (Abstract Painting)
Acrylic and Flashe on canvas - Unframed
Note that this artwork will be sent rolled in a tube if shipped outside the United States.
This method is espec...
Category
2010s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Paint, Acrylic
Vanity (sin 7), Original Abstract Painting, 2020
Located in Boston, MA
Artist Commentary:
A piece playing with the ideas surrounding vanity and youth, and the influence of it at a young age. The makeup carries a toy quality and the baby rattles blend in...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Pastel, Found Objects
Plum (Yellow and Red) (Abstract painting)
Located in London, GB
Plum (Yellow and Red) (Abstract painting)
Acrylic on aluminum - Unframed
Brent Hallard is an Australian - born artist and co organiser of The Shape of Things. His work is deeply ro...
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Wish 7 (Abstract Painting)
By Holly Miller
Located in London, GB
Wish 7 (Abstract Painting)
Acrylic, graphite and thread on canvas - Unframed
The threaded lines suggest a physical barrier that interrupts the shapes and stops them from connecting...
Category
2010s Minimalist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Thread, Acrylic, Graphite
Surface Pressure (Abstract Painting)
Located in London, GB
Surface Pressure (Abstract Painting)
Acrylic and pumice on hessian and canvas - Unframed.
Anthony Frost, son of Sir Terry Frost RA, is an English abstract artist whose vibrant, col...
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Dopaminum 6 - Large Format, Minimalistic Conceptual Oil Painting, Color Field
Located in Salzburg, AT
About Prymon’s Exhibition Dopaminum and his paintings:
”Dopaminum” - Tomasz Prymon
Dopamine – colloquially referred to as the hormone of love and happiness. Why is this organic che...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Cotton Canvas, Oil
Dragon Parade, Modern Impressionist Figurative Painting, Chinese New Year, LE
Located in Golden, CO
This large limited edition figurative, abstract painting titled Dragon Parade is a bold vivid work of contemporary art. The large-scale digital painting, dye-sublimated onto aluminum...
Category
2010s Abstract Impressionist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Metal
Cut-Up Canvas I.5 (Abstract Painting)
Located in London, GB
Cut-Up Canvas I.5 (Abstract Painting)
Acrylic on canvas. Unframed.
Pedersen works with acrylic paint.
When painting a composition, she tends toward a limited color palette, often...
Category
2010s Abstract Geometric Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Cut-Up Canvas I.9 (Abstract Painting)
Located in London, GB
Cut-Up Canvas I.9 (Abstract Painting)
Acrylic on canvas. Unframed.
Pedersen works with acrylic paint.
When painting a composition, she tends toward a limited color palette, often ...
Category
2010s Abstract Geometric Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
In a Heartbeat (Abstract painting)
By Emily Berger
Located in London, GB
In a Heartbeat (Abstract painting)
Oil on wood panel - Unframed.
She layers paint in gestural, horizontal swaths from left to right, stacking the horizontal bands from top to botto...
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Orange Mountains, Abstract Landscape Painting on Canvas, 2013
Located in Boston, MA
Artist Commentary:
Just some imaginary mountains. Wonder if there are orange mountains like these somewhere?
Keywords: painting, landscape, orange, sunset, sunrise, imaginary
Artist Biography:
Robert Crooker was born in Massachusetts in 1951. A life long Red Sox fan, he saw the likes of Frank Malzone, Yaz, George Scott, Rico, Jim Lonborg all play in years gone by. He has been married for over 27 years with 4 children, and 2 grandchildren. In the Mid-1970’s, Robert started collecting Vintage Disney Collectibles...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Red Dusk - abstract landscape, Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
An original one-of-a-kind palette knife abstract landscape with deep texture. Inspired by the beautiful autumnal forest and red sunse...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Jam Spread
By Ella Freire
Located in Deddington, GB
Jam Spread [2021]
original
Acrylic on board
Image size: H:40cm cm x W:40cm cm
Complete Size of Unframed Work: H:2cm cm x W:40cm cm x D:2cmcm
Sold Unframed
Please note that insitu images are purely an indication of how a piece may look
Warm pinks and orange with a shot of blue, evocative of my sunny morning walks along my favourite beach in Santa Teresa...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Board
Once in a Vermillion
Located in Santa Fe, NM
acrylic, ink, mixed media on panel
In his current body of work, Tim uses large gestural drawings to create energetic abstractions. The layered process of his pieces creates a rich t...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Wood Panel
City 4 - Acrylic by A.M. Caboni - 2016
Located in Roma, IT
City 4 is a fascinating acrylic painting on canvas realized by the Italian artist Anna Maria Caboni in 2016.
The artwork is hand-signed and hand-dated "AMC 16" by the artist in blac...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Threads and Beads, Abstract Landscape Painting on Canvas, 2013
Located in Boston, MA
Artist Commentary:
Someones home after the rain...
Keywords: web, water, red, spider, dew, drops, spiral, net
Artist Biography:
Robert Crooker was born in Massachusetts in 1951. A life long Red Sox fan, he saw the likes of Frank Malzone, Yaz, George Scott, Rico, Jim Lonborg all play in years gone by. He has been married for over 27 years with 4 children, and 2 grandchildren. In the Mid-1970’s, Robert started collecting Vintage Disney Collectibles...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Still Life Oil Painting on Canvas by Denis Paul Noyer, Framed
Located in Encino, CA
Untitled (Still Life), an original oil on canvas by Denis Paul Noyer, is a piece for the true collector. Noyer's use of red immediately captures the viewer, which serves as the backd...
Category
1960s Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
AWH 214 - Original Abstract Expressionist Red Colorfield Oil Painting
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Bernhard Zimmer produces deeply layered, subtly textured abstract paintings that contain diametrically opposed elements—order and chaos, abstraction and representation, boldness and ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Minimalist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media, Oil
Summer Update, Original oil Painting, Ready to Hang
Located in Granada Hills, CA
Artist: Vahe Yeremyan
Work: Original Oil Painting, Handmade Artwork, One of a Kind
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Year: 2021
Style: Abstract Art,
Subject: Summer Update,
Size: 44" x 68" x ...
Category
2010s Impressionist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Dakota (Abstract Painting)
Located in London, GB
Dakota (Abstract Painting)
Acrylic and pumice on tuile; sail, netting, sacking, ripstop and canvas - Unframed.
Anthony Frost, son of Sir Terry Frost RA, is an English abstract arti...
Category
Early 2000s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Canvas
Hit it (Abstract painting)
By Emily Berger
Located in London, GB
Hit it (Abstract painting)
Oil on wood panel - Unframed.
She layers paint in gestural, horizontal swaths from left to right, stacking the horizontal bands from top to bottom of the...
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Crimson No 2 - large, bold, abstract shapes, marble dust, acrylic, wax on canvas
By Ivo Stoyanov
Located in Bloomfield, ON
Shapes of deep fuchsia move across passages of dove grey, moss green and black in this abstract composition by Ivo Stoyanov. Stoyanov's paintings have a fresco-like quality, the taut...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media
Untitled, Acrylic on Canvas, Pink, Red by Contemporary Indian Artist"In Stock"
By Amit Kalla
Located in Kolkata, West Bengal
Amit Kalla - Untitled - 24 x 24 inches (unframed size)
Acrylic on Canvas
** Free Shipment ...... will be delivered in rolled form.
Style : Kalla’s work can be represented by his commitment to experimenting with social engagement through the arts. It is here his strength lies. Through his deep connection to a cultural expression of a universal spirituality and passionate sense of humanity Kalla, continuously draws people from all communities into acts of creativity in the belief that through creativity people are empowered and communities move incrementally closer to truth.
His poetry and paintings are spiritually intuited. While his poems create a secretive world of words, where silence speaks his paintings are calligraphic and draw on the same silent unknowing of invented texts. His paintings represent moments on the continuum; a slice snatched from his deeper hidden journey.
The strength of Kalla’s work is that it represents an Indian artist’s quest for an indigenous tenor rather than a superficial inventory of native motifs, there is nothing about his work which relies on a static Indian Identity.
About the Artist & his work :
Born : 1980 in Jaipur, Rajasthan.
Education :
2005 - Masters in Art and Aesthetics from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi
2003 - Graduation in Art History, National Museum Institute specializing in ancient Indian art...
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
French Contemporary Art by Raphael Durans - No.420
Located in Paris, IDF
Acrylic on canvas on divided frame
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Red Lava, Painting, Oil on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
Original oil on canvas signed on the back. Certificate of authenticity included. SHIPPED ROLLED IN A TUBE :: Painting :: Abstract :: This piece comes with an official certificate of...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
Ewelina Makosa - Leftovers - Original Painting
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Ewelina Makosa - Leftovers - Original Painting
Series: Leftovers
Dimensions: 186 x 135 cm
Medium: Oil on canvas
Ewelina Makosa was born in Warsaw, Poland in 1986. She has defended h...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Dreams of Peace, Original Abstract Painting, 2021
Located in Boston, MA
Dreams of Peace, Original Abstract Painting, 2021
This is a finger painted, original painting.
Created in Los Angeles, CA
Professional grade acrylic paint on wood panel
Ready to ha...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
"Moments Of Creation" Abstract Painting, 2014 by Udo Haderlein
Located in Berlin, DE
Acrylic paint and some paper on board, 2014. Signed, dated and titled verso. 22 carat gold frame. It comes directly from the studio of the artist. Height: 25.19 in ( 64 cm ), Width: ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Board, Paper, Acrylic
Mindscape Large Abstract Painting with Vibrant colors red blue green yellow
By Stan Brodsky
Located in Brookville, NY
In a series from some of the last paintings the artist finished before his death in 2019, Mindspring was from a series of paintings where the artist had a clarity and energy to his w...
Category
1990s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
"YOU SAY X, I SAY I 05132018 822pm", Abstract, Digital, Pink, Silver, Blue, Red
By Justin Neely
Located in Toronto, Ontario
The abstract print "YOU SAY X, I SAY I 05132018 822pm" is a digital artwork, created with the Brushes Redux iPhone app, and printed at 36x36" on museum-quality Canson Platine Fibre Rag 310gsm archival paper. As the title indicates, the artwork was created on May 13, 2018 at 8:22 pm.
While Justin Neely...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Archival Paper, Archival Pigment, Digital Pigment
Mardi Gras, Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
Dramatic abstract with beautiful colors. This painting is mailed from Switzerland rolled up. Stretching required. No framing is required since there are no staples on the sides...
Category
Early 2000s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Bibliotheque
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Uruguayan artist Leonardo Aguirre creates visually animated surreal scenes in a theatrical environment. Aguirre rearranges whimsical components into unexpectedly harmonious ways of s...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Farm (Abstract Painting)
Located in London, GB
Farm (Abstract Painting)
Acrylic on honeycomb aluminum - Unframed.
Hallard works with the themes of space and geometry, manipulating images and arrangements of objects in order to...
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
1960's Large Colorful Abstract Expressionist Swiss Oil Painting Robert Lauro
Located in Surfside, FL
Oil Painting on canvas
Hand signed to lower right Lauro.
Provenance: Eleonore Austerer Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Work Size: 39.5 x 39.5 in. framed 44 X 44 inches.
Roberto Lauro is a British-Swiss Post War & Contemporary artist who was born in 1932.
Roberto Lauro was born in 1932 in Gorey Harbor on the island of Jersey (Great Britain) the son of a Swiss mother, Rosa Ramseier, from Oberdiessbach / Emmental, Switzerland, and and Italian father Innocenzo Roberto Lauro, born in Mondovi, Italy. In 1941 he moved to Switzerland with his mother. 1949-1953 he lived in Gunten (Switzerland) where he did an Apprenticeship as a lithograph and offset printer and graphic designer in Thun. There he was introduced to the color theory of Johannes Itten by Hermann Oberli at the Bern School of Applied Arts. From 1953 to 1955 he worked as a fine art printer in Norway where he was influenced by the color theory of Edvard Munch. These works bears the influence of Russian artist Andre Lanskoy, Tachisme and the Cobra artists Karel Appel, Constant, Corneille, Christian Dotremont, Asger Jorn, and Joseph Noiret.
In 1955-1956 he worked as an offset printer in Amsterdam (Netherlands). Visit to the Instituut voor Kunstnijverheidsonderwijs. In 1957 he returned to Gunten, Switzerland. Where he started working in printmaking and and oil painting. He resumed his studies at the Bern School of Applied Arts. He was greatly impacted and influenced by abstract art on the occasion of a large Paul KIee exhibition. In 1958 he moved to Zurich where he worked part-time work as an offset copyist; fulfilling graphic orders for advertising agencies. In 1962 he took his final examination as graphic designer at the Zurich School of Applied Arts. In 1980 he begins his development of three-dimensional picture objects, Sculpture, detachment from the canvas, using metal as a support and play space for light and color. By 1981 he has turned full time to fine art. He spends the next years growing and developing his considerable talent. Inspired by classical music, the rhythm, mood and lightness of which form the basis for the large swings and loops of his colorfully lacquered metal and blown glass sculptures. These are "pensieri", thought sketches that capture the emotions in countless versions. There is something dance-like about his rotating sculptures. Everything becomes music and the rhythm of colors. In 1988, after exhibitions in Europe, he has his first exhibitions in Atlanta and San Francisco (USA), In 1989 he does his first glass and metal sculptures at the Roberto Niederer...
Category
1960s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
There (Abstract Painting)
By Dana Gordon
Located in London, GB
There (Abstract Painting)
Acrylic and Flashe on canvas - Unframed
Note that this artwork will be sent rolled in a tube if shipped outside the United States.
This method is espec...
Category
2010s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Paint, Acrylic
Glowing Pastures
By David Hayes
Located in Lawrence, NY
Gouache on paper
signed en verso
Throughout his sixty-year artistic career, David Hayes created sculptural forms abstracted from organic forms encountered in daily life. He first st...
Category
1990s American Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Gouache
"Expanding Colors II" Acrylic Painting, 2016 by Udo Haderlein
Located in Berlin, DE
Acrylic ink and color on canvas, 2016. Signed, titled and dated on the back. Minor scretches on the lower edge. Ready to hang. It comes directly from the studio of the artist. Height...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Ink, Acrylic
Antonio Buonfiglio - OUT OF RED - Red - Oil Painting
Located in Stienta, IT
Technique Mixed oil on wood.
The artist, In order to give more character and personalization to this work of great effect and color, decorates the painting with his own fingerprints.
In Antonio...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Clear Spot (Abstract Painting)
Located in London, GB
Clear Spot (Abstract Painting)
Acrylic and pumice on sacking, sailcloth and canvas - Unframed.
Anthony Frost, son of Sir Terry Frost RA, is an English abstract artist whose vibran...
Category
Early 2000s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Prevalent Red - Painting by Giuseppe Zumbolo - 2018
Located in Roma, IT
Prevalent Red is one of the best works by the artist Giuseppe Zumbolo realized in 2018. It is made on a vertically folded canvas painted in acrylic.
...
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Red
Located in Boston, MA
Artist Commentary:
Made with plastic bags, beeswax, oil paint and graphite
Keywords: flower, rose
Artist Biography:
Toby Zallman has always combined un...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Graphite, Plastic, Wax, Oil
'Biomorphic Abstract, Cobalt & Red', Bay Area Oil, Rhode Island School of Design
By Donald Roberts
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'Roberts' for Donald Roberts (American, 1923-2015) signed, verso, dated 2012 and inscribed, 'S.F. CA'.
This noted lithographer, pai...
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Morning Glow II, Painting, Oil on Canvas
By Jo Moore
Located in Yardley, PA
Jo Moore's compelling original artwork draws on inspiration from nature, displaying dramatically rich textural surfaces.Sought after both nationally and internationally, and collecte...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
Morning Glow I, Painting, Oil on Canvas
By Jo Moore
Located in Yardley, PA
Jo Moore's compelling original artwork draws on inspiration from nature, displaying dramatically rich textural surfaces.Sought after both nationally and internationally, and collecte...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
Sun Zoom Spark (Abstract painting)
Located in London, GB
Sun Zoom Spark (Abstract painting)
Acrylic and pumice on post office bag, linen, hessian sacking and canvas - Unframed.
Anthony Frost, son of Sir Terry Frost RA, is an English abst...
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Fire and Ice, Abstract Ink Painting, 2019
Located in Boston, MA
Artist Commentary:
This one came from a study in colors. Typically, orange and purple don't play well together when mixed. The trick is to keep them from mixing too much. I had just...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Ink
Ink #4 (Abstract painting)
By Emily Berger
Located in London, GB
Ink #4 (Abstract painting)
Ink, watercolor, gouache on Arches watercolor paper - Unframed.
Image size: 12” x 8.25” - 30,5 x 21 cm.
She layers paint in gestural, horizontal swaths ...
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink, Watercolor, Gouache
Bury (Abstract Painting)
Located in London, GB
Bury (Abstract Painting)
Oil on paper - Unframed
Spielman uses oil paint on canvas, paper and panel in various sizes; she works on up to forty paintings at a time, moving between t...
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Oil
Tejido, 2009
Located in ATLANTA, GA
Carmen Anzano is a contemporary interdisciplinary artist who works with painting, sculpture and installations to showcase an interpretation of her personal universe of geometry and s...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Modular 5
By Jodi Fuchs
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Jodi Fuchs' abstract geometric artworks exude a sense of order and balance with their precise lines, shapes, and layered fields of color. Influenced by her years of contemplation of ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Untitled 10 (Abstract painting)
By Claude Tétot
Located in London, GB
Untitled 10 (Abstract painting)
Acrylic and oil on paper - Unframed
Claude Tétot is a French abstract artist whose work expresses harmony in disharmony...
Category
2010s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Oil, Acrylic
Original Abstract Paintings for Sale on 1stDibs
Bring audacious experiments with color and textures to your living room, dining room or home office. Abstract paintings, large or small, will stand out in your space, encouraging conversation and introducing a museum-like atmosphere that’s welcoming and conducive to creating memorable gatherings.
Abstract art has origins in 19th-century Europe, but it came into its own as a significant movement during the 20th century. Early practitioners of abstraction included Wassily Kandinsky, although painters were exploring nonfigurative art prior to the influential Russian artist’s efforts, which were inspired by music and religion. Abstract painters endeavored to create works that didn’t focus on the outside world’s conventional subjects, and even when artists depicted realistic subjects, they worked in an abstract mode to do so.
In 1940s-era New York City, a group of painters working in the abstract mode created radical work that looked to European avant-garde artists as well as to the art of ancient cultures, prioritizing improvisation, immediacy and direct personal expression. While they were never formally affiliated with one another, we know them today as Abstract Expressionists.
The male contingent of the Abstract Expressionists, which includes Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning and Robert Motherwell, is frequently cited in discussing leading figures of this internationally influential postwar art movement. However, the women of Abstract Expressionism, such as Helen Frankenthaler, Lee Krasner, Joan Mitchell and others, were equally involved in the art world of the time. Sexism, family obligations and societal pressures contributed to a long history of their being overlooked, but the female Abstract Expressionists experimented vigorously, developed their own style and produced significant bodies of work.
Draw your guests into abstract oil paintings across different eras and countries of origin. On 1stDibs, you’ll find an expansive range of abstract paintings along with a guide on how to arrange your wonderful new wall art.
If you’re working with a small living space, a colorful, oversize work can create depth in a given room, but there isn’t any need to overwhelm your interior with a sprawling pièce de résistance. Colorful abstractions of any size can pop against a white wall in your living room, but if you’re working with a colored backdrop, you may wish to stick to colors that complement the decor that is already in the space. Alternatively, let your painting make a statement on its own, regardless of its surroundings, or group it, gallery-style, with other works.
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