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Medium: Graphite
Site 009, abstract painting
Located in New York, NY
Acrylic graphite, mica, paper on linen.
Category
2010s Abstract Graphite Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Linen, Paper, Graphite, Mica
Last Quarter II
Located in Dallas, TX
David A. Dreyer was born in Dallas in 1958, and earned his BFA and MFA at Southern Methodist University. He was a recipient of the Moss/Chumley Award from the Meadows Museum and has ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Graphite Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Graphite, Oil
Alga Aligata No. 4- seaweed kelp oceanic abstracted work on paper
Located in Burlingame, CA
Mixed-media: Sumi Ink, graphite, metallic pigment and acrylic on Moulin de Larroque paper, made by hand in a mill in France. The mixed media work is inspired by seaweed / kelp at a E...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Graphite Abstract Paintings
Materials
Metal, Gold Leaf
Harbor 8, abstract painting on canvas, layered with bright colors and blue tones
By Liz Barber
Located in Dallas, TX
“Harbor 8” — Oil, Acrylic, and Ink on Canvas, 48 x 60 inches
"Harbor 8" is a brightly colored abstract painting with richly layered blue tones...
Category
2010s Abstract Graphite Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Ink, Acrylic, Gouache, Graphite
$8,400 Sale Price
20% Off
Air Chamber, Mid-Century Figural Abstract Collage, Anatomy & Ovoids
Located in Beachwood, OH
Clarence Holbrook Carter (American, 1904-2000)
Air Chamber, 1965
Collage, graphite and gouache on paper
Signed and dated upper left
30 x 22 inches
Provenance: Descended through the family.
Clarence Holbrook Carter achieved a level of national artistic success that was nearly unprecedented among Cleveland School artists of his day, with representation by major New York dealers...
Category
1960s American Modern Graphite Abstract Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Graphite
Approach (Abstract painting)
By Xanda McCagg
Located in London, GB
Approach (Abstract painting)
Oil and graphite on canvas — Unframed.
McCagg's work is informed and influenced by formal elements such as line and space, which provide an underlying ...
Category
2010s Abstract Graphite Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Graphite
"Arcs, " Abstract Oil Painting
Located in Westport, CT
This abstract oil painting by Christine Averill-Green features a unique, contrasting palette of pink, blue, violet and grey. The artist layers organi...
Category
2010s Abstract Graphite Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Graphite
Centuriata
Located in East Quogue, NY
Blue and black abstract painting by Mark Zimmermann - Acrylic and graphite on canvas in artist frame. Signed on back by the artist.
M...
Category
2010s Abstract Graphite Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Graphite
Between Heaven and Earth: Untitled #8 Acrylic on canvas with graphite and pastel
Located in West Hollywood, CA
Stephanie Visser, a native of southwestern Michigan, was educated at Kendall College of Art and Design in Grand Rapids Michigan. She continued her education in fine arts and painting...
Category
2010s Abstract Graphite Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Acrylic, Graphite
Free More, original Zabriskie Gallery & Reader's Digest Collection labels signed
By Pat Adams
Located in New York, NY
Pat Adams
Free More, 1989
Acrylic and encaustic painting with varnish on paper laid down on canvas
Hand signed and dated on the upper left front
Original artist's frame included
This...
Category
1980s Abstract Graphite Abstract Paintings
Materials
Varnish, Encaustic, Acrylic, Mixed Media, Pencil, Graphite
Divining Intelligence, Earth Bound, Eclipsed Shadows
Located in Dallas, TX
"I want my paintings to be a celebration of pure nature and moment––homage to the sacred spaces of memory. I begin with small automatic drawings, a practice of intuitive organization...
Category
2010s Abstract Graphite Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Chalk, Charcoal, Oil, Graphite
Recollection 145 (Montauk), abstract, bright, geometric, pattern, landscape
Located in New York, NY
Based in the New Haven, CT area, Barbara Marks creates sumptuous, multicolored paintings. Her canvases are small in scale, compared to the mid-century abstractionist traditions they ...
Category
2010s Abstract Graphite Abstract Paintings
Materials
Gesso, Gouache, Panel, Graphite
Passion Wave, Original painting, Abstract art, Mixed media, Colourful
By Jon Rowland
Located in Deddington, GB
This painting and 'Release' are pure abstracts, demonstrating the effects of different attitudes. Passion Waves reflects anticipation, liveliness, and happiness. It's a very active p...
Category
2010s Abstract Graphite Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pastel, Ink, Mixed Media, Acrylic, Graphite
Spirit (mid century modern abstract painting by artist daughter of MOMA founder)
Located in New York, NY
Victoria Barr
Spirit, 1974
Crayon on Paper
Signed and dated lower right front
Frame included
Provenance: Fischbach Gallery, New York, NY
This bright, abstract 1970s artwork was created by Victoria Barr, daughter of the legendary developer of the Museum of Modern Art, Alfred H. Barr. There is a Fischbach Gallery label on the back of the frame. The Fischbach Gallery was, for many years, the gallery of record for the American artist Alex Katz. It is not easy finding Barr's work on the market at this time.
Measurements:
Framed:
23 inches x 29.5 inches x .5 inches
Artwork:
23 inches x 29 inches
Victoria Barr was born in New York, NY, in 1937 to the legendary MOMA curator and art historian Alfred H. Barr, Jr. and art historian Margaret Scolari Barr. Barr often traveled to Europe with her parents from the age of 14 onwards, meeting influential artists like Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, and Marc Chagall and collectors like Peggy Guggenheim. For high school, she went to Milton Academy...
Category
1970s Abstract Graphite Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil Crayon, Graphite
Facing the Moon
Located in Dallas, TX
"The art I make does not tell a direct story, but prompts one to find things truly unseen. The works develop through intuitive improvisations, actions upon surface, and lines perpetu...
Category
2010s Abstract Graphite Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Graphite
Dark Star
Located in Dallas, TX
David A. Dreyer was born in Dallas in 1958, and earned his BFA and MFA at Southern Methodist University. He was a recipient of the Moss/Chumley Award from the Meadows Museum and has ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Graphite Abstract Paintings
Materials
Birch, Graphite, Oil
Earth Flare, Before I Close My Eyes
Located in Dallas, TX
David A. Dreyer was born in Dallas in 1958, and earned his BFA and MFA at Southern Methodist University. He was a recipient of the Moss/Chumley Award from the Meadows Museum and has ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Graphite Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Charcoal, Graphite, Oil
Surrounded by Night, Nature's Abundance
Located in Dallas, TX
David A. Dreyer was born in Dallas in 1958, and earned his BFA and MFA at Southern Methodist University. He was a recipient of the Moss/Chumley Award from the Meadows Museum and has ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Graphite Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Charcoal, Graphite, Oil
D S Blues
Located in Dallas, TX
David A. Dreyer was born in Dallas in 1958, and earned his BFA and MFA at Southern Methodist University. He was a recipient of the Moss/Chumley Award from the Meadows Museum and has ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Graphite Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Graphite, Oil
Xavi Carbonell, Untitled, 2012, Mixed media on paper
Located in New York, NY
Spanish artist Xavi Carbonell born 1971, actively paints like a child as an adult, and leaves all of his pieces "untitled" so that each viewer can create their own story. The resulti...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Minimalist Graphite Abstract Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Paper, Oil Crayon, Oil, Permanent Marker, Graphite
Recollection 146 (Montauk), bright colors, abstract, landscape, geometric
Located in New York, NY
Based in the New Haven, CT area, Barbara Marks creates sumptuous, multicolored paintings. Her canvases are small in scale, compared to the mid-century abstractionist traditions they ...
Category
2010s Abstract Graphite Abstract Paintings
Materials
Gesso, Gouache, Panel, Graphite
Persian Rose
Located in Burlingame, CA
Inspired by Taoist teachings and meditations, 'Persian Rose' feels alive with its concentration on a single, pure color. Matuszewski creates meditative and harmonious color field pai...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Geometric Graphite Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Graphite
Scoli Acosta Large Contemporary Mixed Media Painting LA Art Red Planet Collage
By Scoli Acosta
Located in Surfside, FL
Shadow of Opportunity on Red Planet
Mixed media
Framed 39.3 X 50 sheet 32.4 X 42.3
Hand signed, dated and titled by artist. (with a location of LA noted)
This came with a group of 4...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Graphite Abstract Paintings
Materials
Adhesive, Mixed Media, Acrylic, Gouache, Color Pencil, Graphite, Photogram
Threshold (Abstract painting)
By Xanda McCagg
Located in London, GB
Threshold (Abstract painting)
Oil and graphite on canvas — Unframed.
McCagg's work is informed and influenced by formal elements such as line and space, which provide an underlying...
Category
2010s Abstract Graphite Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Graphite
Bring to Light
Located in Dallas, TX
David A. Dreyer was born in Dallas in 1958, and earned his BFA and MFA at Southern Methodist University. He has had solo exhibitions at The McKinney Avenue Contemporary in Dallas and...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Graphite Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Graphite, Oil
Wish 8 (Abstract Painting)
By Holly Miller
Located in London, GB
Wish 8 (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 Graphite Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Thread, Acrylic, Graphite
Parking space- grey blue abstract geometric watercolor drawing
Located in New York, NY
Richard Garrison collects information from typically overlooked aspects of daily life. Observed data from places like big box stores and parking lots are systematically transformed i...
Category
2010s Abstract Geometric Graphite Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Gouache, Graphite
Observation Obfuscation xi
Located in New York, NY
Acrylic, graphite, transfer on linen
Category
2010s Contemporary Graphite Abstract Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil, Acrylic, Graphite
Sonoma no. 4
Located in Burlingame, CA
'Sonoma no. 4' glows with soft yellow with touches of blue, and is inspired by Taoist teachings and meditations, with a focus on color, rhythm and flow. Matuszewski creates meditativ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Geometric Graphite Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Graphite
LIE TO ME, Mixed Media Abstract Painting with Text
By Henri Bassmadjian
Located in Surfside, FL
Born in 1958. At his first personal exhibition (greeted by "Le Matin"), he is still a high school student.
At the workshops of the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris, he prefers the personal research on the questioning of the paint of the painting that he does not hesitate to exhibit in the Salons (Big and Young, May, etc. ...) and which is split up with a mystic and barbarous vision applied to the installation, at Land-art.
In 1983, on his first visit to the USA, discovers the Hopi in the heart of the "American Dream". Violence of the figure. He then weaves in New York, Toulouse, Brussels, Paris the conjunction installation-drawing over many galleries.
In 1988, he entered the Galerie Krif (Paris) and immersed himself in the myth of Moby Dick. Many exhibitions (Brussels, Tarbes, Lyon, Rennes) while teaching at the School of Fine Arts in Bourges.
Henri Basmadjian died in December 1993. Homage to Furea Koral's 40th Year in Art showed with Osman Dinç, Song S, Daniel Buren
Ten Artists Ten Works: Henri Basmadjian, Canan Beykal, John Latham, Osman Dinç
Sabri Berkel
Category
1980s Conceptual Graphite Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil Pastel, Gouache, Graphite
Casual classic- earth tone circular abstract geometric watercolor drawing
Located in New York, NY
Richard Garrison collects information from typically overlooked aspects of daily life. Observed data from places like big box stores and parking lots are systematically transformed i...
Category
2010s Abstract Geometric Graphite Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Gouache, Graphite
Rick Lewis, Camael, Painting 1997
By Rick Lewis
Located in Greenwich, CT
Camael
Oil, graphite, sand, dry pigment on paper, laid canvas
47" x 35"
I am a visual artist whose work investigates small and large -scale abstraction primarily in the medium of p...
Category
2010s Abstract Graphite Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Graphite, Pigment
Domina - Pink, blue & yellow striped abstract painting
Located in East Quogue, NY
Pink multicolor striped abstract painting by Mark Zimmermann - Acrylic and graphite on canvas in artist frame. Signed on back by the artist.
Mark Zimmermann's work is based on the fusion of meditative fields, architectonic structures and an organic gestural line that is one-part intentional and one-part accidental. Zimmermann clearly demonstrates his deftness of hand though labored bands of color, building and editing one band upon other, until the editing process renders compositions that combine both hard-edge and action-painting abstraction.
In discussing this work, the editor and writer, Larry Qualls noted,“...a majestic landscape narrative... they illuminate the nature of painting itself. In a sense what these paintings do is bring a synthesis of the conceptual and the realistic; it is as if there is the conflux of two grand traditions: the purely abstract and the purely objective.”
Mark Zimmermann has exhibited his paintings across the United States and abroad. His work is held in private and public collections such as JW Marriott Essex House...
Category
2010s Abstract Graphite Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Graphite
Between Heaven and Earth: Untitled #1 acrylic, graphite, oil pastels on canvas
Located in West Hollywood, CA
Stephanie Visser, a native of southwestern Michigan, was educated at Kendall College of Art and Design in Grand Rapids Michigan. She continued her education in fine arts and painting...
Category
2010s Abstract Graphite Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Acrylic, Graphite
Interior (Abstract painting)
By Xanda McCagg
Located in London, GB
Interior (Abstract painting)
Oil and graphite on canvas — Unframed.
McCagg's work is informed and influenced by formal elements such as line and space, which provide an underlying ...
Category
2010s Abstract Graphite Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Graphite
Joy - Contemporary Abstract Painting
Located in Carmel, CA
Beth Shields is a distinguished abstract artist whose work has captivated collectors and audiences worldwide. Based in Santa Cruz, California, Beth has dedicated her life to artistic...
Category
2010s Contemporary Graphite Abstract Paintings
Materials
Gesso, Canvas, Acrylic, Graphite
Lux on the 5th (Abstract painting)
Located in London, GB
Lux on the 5th (Abstract painting)
Acrylic, charcoal and graphite on paper - Unframed.
Artwork exclusive to IdeelArt.
Adrienn Krahl’s paintings express a profound sense of drama ...
Category
2010s Abstract Graphite Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Charcoal, Acrylic, Graphite
Abstract and Grid Composition
Located in Astoria, NY
Robert O'Meara (American, XX-XXI), Abstract and Grid Composition, Oil on Canvas, yellow abstraction overlaid over graphite grid, signed to verso, unframed. 20" H x 31" W x .75" D. Pr...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Graphite Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Graphite
"Withdrawn" Contemporary Pastel Abstract Mixed Media Sculptural Painting
Located in Houston, TX
Exhibited in "Benji Stiles: A Human Day" at Reeves Art + Design.
In “A Human Day,” a solo show dedicated to the work of contemporary multidisciplinary artist Benji Stiles, we explor...
Category
2010s Contemporary Graphite Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Oil, Graphite, Wood, Found Objects
Thaw 3 (Abstract drawing)
Located in London, GB
Thaw 3 (Abstract drawing)
Graphite and colored pencil on two layers of plastic paper. Unframed.
Thaw Series is a new series of drawings where the artist continues her work touchin...
Category
2010s Abstract Expressionist Graphite Abstract Paintings
Materials
Plastic, Color Pencil, Graphite
Summer Sorbet (Abstract painting)
Located in London, GB
Summer Sorbet (Abstract painting)
Acrylic, oil pastel and graphite on canvas — Unframed.
Artwork exclusive to IdeelArt.
This artwork will be shipped rolled in a dent-resistant tube...
Category
2010s Abstract Graphite Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil Pastel, Acrylic, Graphite
Rick Lewis, Did You See the Moon Tonight? - Painting 2019
By Rick Lewis
Located in Greenwich, CT
Did You See the Moon Tonight?
Oil, graphite, litho ink, dry pigment on paper
40" x 26"
I am a visual artist whose work investigates small and large -scale abstraction primarily in ...
Category
2010s Abstract Graphite Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Graphite, Pigment, Paper, Ink
Skin Care- pastel color circular abstract geometric watercolor drawing
Located in New York, NY
Richard Garrison collects information from typically overlooked aspects of daily life. Observed data from places like big box stores and parking lots are systematically transformed i...
Category
2010s Abstract Geometric Graphite Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Gouache, Graphite
Face It
Located in New York, NY
Acrylic and graphite on gessoboard
Category
2010s Abstract Graphite Abstract Paintings
Materials
Gesso, Acrylic, Board, Graphite
"Copse", oil painting, landscape, abstract, trees, field, sky, light, copper
Located in Toronto, Ontario
"Copse" is an oil painting with chalk and graphite on wood panel, and measures 16" high by 12" wide. It is finished with a clear resin across the surface, lending the artwork a particular warmth and liquidity that is rare and lovely to behold. Typical of the artist, the painting is a mystery despite its apparent simplicity – the landscape with trees on the horizon, the wide full sky bearing down with clouds and light. The picture surface is very interesting – drawn lines and painterly brushstrokes to be sure, but note the speed and swift conviction of those brushstrokes. All of it held, as if in time, by the resin layer acting as a lens to both transmit this picture and admit light to the picture. A true artifact.
From Will Hudson...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Graphite Abstract Paintings
Materials
Resin, Chalk, Oil, Wood Panel, Graphite
Rick Lewis, Mirror to the Sun V, Painting 2021
By Rick Lewis
Located in Greenwich, CT
Mirror to the Sun V
Oil, graphite, litho ink, dry pigment on paper
40" x 26"
I am a visual artist whose work investigates small and large -scale abstraction primarily in the medium...
Category
2010s Abstract Graphite Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink, Oil, Graphite, Pigment
Ellen Hackl Fagan, Molecules of Music, 2014, Enamel, Acrylic, Clay Board
Located in Darien, CT
Ellen Hackl Fagan creates works of art focused on building a visual language. Molecules of Music is a large acrylic painting based on crowd sourced input of viewers pairing sounds from the Do Re Mi musical scale to colors. 260 people submitted their opinions on color to sound matches.
Language is a recurring theme in Fagan's work, ranging from interactive, ColorSoundGrammar works to painting, sculpture, lost languages...
Category
2010s Abstract Geometric Graphite Abstract Paintings
Materials
Enamel
Rick Lewis, Mirror to the Sun II, Painting 2021
By Rick Lewis
Located in Greenwich, CT
Mirror to the Sun II
Oil, graphite, litho ink, spray paint, dry pigment on paper
40" x 26"
I am a visual artist whose work investigates small and large -scale abstraction primarily...
Category
2010s Abstract Graphite Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink, Oil, Spray Paint, Graphite, Pigment
Rick Lewis, Untitled (Blue), Painting 2025
By Rick Lewis
Located in Greenwich, CT
Untitled (Blue)
Oil, graphite, litho ink, spray paint, dry pigment on paper
40" x 30"
I am a visual artist whose work investigates small and large -scale abstraction primarily in t...
Category
2010s Abstract Graphite Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink, Oil, Spray Paint, Graphite, Pigment
Rick Lewis, Mirror to the Sun IV, Painting 2021
By Rick Lewis
Located in Greenwich, CT
Mirror to the Sun IV
Oil, graphite, litho ink, spray paint, dry pigment on paper
40" x 26"
I am a visual artist whose work investigates small and large -scale abstraction primarily...
Category
2010s Abstract Graphite Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink, Oil, Graphite, Pigment, Spray Paint
Hold-Ing (Abstract painting)
By Xanda McCagg
Located in London, GB
Hold-Ing (Abstract painting)
Oil and graphite on canvas — Unframed.
McCagg's work is informed and influenced by formal elements such as line and space, which provide an underlying ...
Category
2010s Abstract Graphite Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Graphite
Recollection 7 (Stony Creek), pastel, abstract, texture
Located in New York, NY
Based in the New Haven, CT area, Barbara Marks creates sumptuous, multicolored paintings. Her canvases are small in scale, compared to the mid-century abstractionist traditions they ...
Category
2010s Abstract Graphite Abstract Paintings
Materials
Gesso, Gouache, Panel, Graphite
Ellen Hackl Fagan, Primer, 2001, Cotton Canvas, Acrylic Paint, Graphite
Located in Darien, CT
Ellen Hackl Fagan creates works of art focused on building a visual language. Primer is a large acrylic on canvas painting that was painted during the attacks on NYC on 9/11. She used the alphabet as a metaphor, as a way towards communicating anew with one another.
The alphabet is a recurring theme in Fagan's work, ranging from interactive, ColorSoundGrammar works to painting, sculpture, lost languages...
Category
Early 2000s Expressionist Graphite Abstract Paintings
Materials
Cotton Canvas, Acrylic, Graphite
Yvette Cohen, Swimming On Air #15, 2017, Wood, Canvas, Acrylic Paint, Graphite
By Yvette Cohen
Located in Darien, CT
Yvette Cohen makes art that transforms space.
Her oil paintings of geometric masses of color on shaped canvas look sculptural, but mount flat on the wall. Paintings become objects ...
Category
2010s Abstract Geometric Graphite Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Wood, Acrylic, Graphite
Magic - Contemporary Abstract Painting
Located in Carmel, CA
Beth Shields is a distinguished abstract artist whose work has captivated collectors and audiences worldwide. Based in Santa Cruz, California, Beth has de...
Category
2010s Contemporary Graphite Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Graphite, Wax
Estuary 1 (Abstract Drawing)
Located in London, GB
Estuary 1 (Abstract Drawing)
Graphite and acrylic on linen - Unframed
This fluid abstract painting is intuitively made with a loaded brush graphite and acrylic on linen.
The inter...
Category
2010s Abstract Expressionist Graphite Abstract Paintings
Materials
Linen, Acrylic, Graphite
Fresh- colorful bright color circular abstract geometric watercolor drawing
Located in New York, NY
Richard Garrison collects information from typically overlooked aspects of daily life. Observed data from places like big box stores and parking lots are systematically transformed i...
Category
2010s Abstract Geometric Graphite Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Gouache, Graphite
Ellen Hackl Fagan, ColorSoundGrammar_3 2010, Abstraction, Meditative
Located in Darien, CT
Inviting the accidental while painting, the artist's materials continue to reveal limitless possibilities for improvisation, like jazz music. Influenced by scientific theories-both real and imagined, kitsch, music, decorative art and indigenous textiles, Fagan's abstract paintings and interactive performance build connections between color and surface to sound.
This exploration has led to creating a series of interactive games with viewers, the most recent being The Alphabet Game. To play, viewers select, from colored squares, the color(s) that best represent each note in the familiar ABC Song melody. Through these playful interventions their thoughts about color and music are explored in-depth. Documenting their responses in the form of photographs and notes in journals, Fagan has compiled the results of fifteen artists who played the Alphabet Game during a lecture on color where the artist was the guest presenter in order to create this particular painting.
Fagan distilled the data gathered and painted this visualization of a color/sound alphabet based on the colors selected by this artist's group. These alphabet paintings introduce a wonderful completion to this pseudo-scientific investigation and celebrate painting...
Category
2010s Conceptual Graphite Abstract Paintings
Materials
Enamel
"Swing", oil painting, figurative, play, barefoot, yard, upside down, legs
Located in Toronto, Ontario
"Swing" is an oil painting with chalk and graphite on wood panel, and measures 16" high by 12" wide. It is finished with a clear resin across the surface, lending the artwork a particular warmth and liquidity that is rare and lovely to behold. Typical of the artist, the painting is a mystery despite its apparent simplicity – a girl or young lady on a swing...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Graphite Abstract Paintings
Materials
Resin, Chalk, Oil, Wood Panel, Graphite
"Cronus View from the Cave" David Hare, Abstract Surrealist Composition
By David Hare
Located in New York, NY
David Hare
Cronus View from the Cave, 1971
Graphite, Ink wash, Paper Collage on Paper on Board
25 x 33 inches
“Freedom is what we want,” David Hare boldly stated in 1965, but then he added the caveat, “and what we are most afraid of.” No one could accuse David Hare of possessing such fear. Blithely unconcerned with the critics’ judgments, Hare flitted through most of the major art developments of the mid-twentieth century in the United States. He changed mediums several times; just when his fame as a sculptor had reached its apogee about 1960, he switched over to painting. Yet he remained attached to surrealism long after it had fallen out of official favor. “I can’t change what I do in order to fit what would make me popular,” he said. “Not because of moral reasons, but just because I can’t do it; I’m not interested in it.”
Hare was born in New York City in 1917; his family was both wealthy and familiar with the world of modern art. Meredith (1870-1932), his father, was a prominent corporate attorney. His mother, Elizabeth Sage Goodwin (1878-1948) was an art collector, a financial backer of the 1913 Armory Show, and a friend of artists such as Constantin Brancusi, Walt Kuhn, and Marcel Duchamp.
In the 1920s, the entire family moved to Santa Fe, New Mexico and later to Colorado Springs, in the hope that the change in altitude and climate would help to heal Meredith’s tuberculosis. In Colorado Springs, Elizabeth founded the Fountain Valley School where David attended high school after his father died in 1932. In the western United States, Hare developed a fascination for kachina dolls and other aspects of Native American culture that would become a recurring source of inspiration in his career.
After high school, Hare briefly attended Bard College (1936-37) in Annandale-on-Hudson. At a loss as to what to do next, he parlayed his mother’s contacts into opening a commercial photography studio and began dabbling in color photography, still a rarity at the time [Kodachrome was introduced in 1935]. At age 22, Hare had his first solo exhibition at Walker Gallery in New York City; his 30 color photographs included one of President Franklin Roosevelt.
As a photographer, Hare experimented with an automatist technique called “heatage” (or “melted negatives”) in which he heated the negative in order to distort the image. Hare described them as “antagonisms of matter.” The final products were usually abstractions tending towards surrealism and similar to processes used by Man Ray, Raoul Ubac, and Wolfgang Paalen.
In 1940, Hare moved to Roxbury, CT, where he fraternized with neighboring artists such as Alexander Calder and Arshile Gorky, as well as Yves Tanguy who was married to Hare’s cousin Kay Sage, and the art dealer Julian Levy. The same year, Hare received a commission from the American Museum of Natural History to document the Pueblo Indians. He traveled to Santa Fe and, for several months, he took portrait photographs of members of the Hopi, Navajo, and Zuni tribes that were published in book form in 1941.
World War II turned Hare’s life upside down. He became a conduit in the exchange of artistic and intellectual ideas between U.S. artists and the surrealist émigrés fleeing Europe. In 1942, Hare befriended Andre Breton, the principal theorist of surrealism. When Breton wanted to publish a magazine to promote the movement in the United States, he could not serve as an editor because he was a foreign national. Instead, Breton selected Hare to edit the journal, entitled VVV [shorth for “Victory, Victory, Victory”], which ran for four issues (the second and third issues were printed as a single volume) from June 1942 to February 1944. Each edition of VVV focused on “poetry, plastic arts, anthropology, sociology, (and) psychology,” and was extensively illustrated by surrealist artists including Giorgio de Chirico, Roberto Matta, and Yves Tanguy; Max Ernst and Marcel Duchamp served as editorial advisors.
At the suggestion of Jacqueline Lamba...
Category
1970s Abstract Graphite Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink, Graphite
Graphite abstract paintings for sale on 1stDibs.
Find a wide variety of authentic Graphite abstract paintings available on 1stDibs. While artists have worked in this medium across a range of time periods, art made with this material during the 21st Century is especially popular. If you’re looking to add Abstract paintings created with this material to introduce a provocative pop of color and texture to an otherwise neutral space in your home, the works available on 1stDibs include elements of blue, red, green, pink and other colors. There are many well-known artists whose body of work includes ceramic sculptures. Popular artists on 1stDibs associated with pieces like this include Adrienn Krahl, Kory Twaddle, Jaanika Peerna, and Alyse Rosner. Frequently made by artists working in the Abstract, Contemporary, all of these pieces for sale are unique and many will draw the attention of guests in your home. Not every interior allows for large Graphite abstract paintings, so small editions measuring 0.1 inches across are also available
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