Masonite Abstract Paintings

Genesis - Light from Dark, Original Abstract Resin Painting, 2018 Artist Commentary: My depiction of the verse in Genesis where light and dark wer...

Artist Commentary: This is my depiction of Genesis, separating heaven from earth. Keywords: blues, heaven, celestial, abstract, spiritual, heaven, waves, sky Artist Biography: Cre...

Born in 1934, the work of Suzanne Bloomfield represents the life force which binds us all -- a universal symbol for the soul's transformation. Bloomfield believes that painting is t...

David was inspired by the Anasazi petroglyphs with these shapes of the figures in this painting. It is an oil painting on Masonite. The frame is black wood- a shadow box concept. The...

signed and dated (lower left)

Ashley John is proud to offer this artwork by: Gershon Benjamin (1899 - 1985) Gershon Benjamin is a painter of portraits, landscapes, still lives, and the urban scene. He had a pro...

Acrylic paint on masonite.

Acrylic Paint on Masonite.

Suzanne Bloomfield’s 1969 painting, After the Storm, is a striking blend of oil and encaustic that immerses viewers in a world of renewal and transformation. Deep reds, earthy brown...

Acrylic paint on masonite. The frame was painted by the artist.

Acrylic paint on masonite.

Acrylic paint on masonite.

Acrylic paint on masonite.

Acrylic on masonite.

Translated title: "Now I see you". Acrylic on masonite.

Translated title: "Now I see you" Acrylic on masonite.

Acrylic on masonite

Robert O'Meara (American, XX-XXI), Abstract Composition in Green, Oil on Board, with blue details, apparently unsigned, unframed. 10" H x 14" W. Provenance: From a 333 East 75th Stre...

This painting is a perfect example of lyrical abstraction and a choice painting out of the best period of Vlerick's career. Geen nachtschade (No Nightshade), 1962 Oil on Masonite board 121 x 61 cm (without frame) 136 x 75 cm (framed) Signed and dated bottom left ‘P. Vlerick 1962’& with title, signature place and date at the back Pierre Vlerick...

Acrylic on Masonite

Mixed Media on Masonite

Mixed Media on Masonite

Signed lower right

This painting is a perfect example of lyrical abstraction and a choice painting out of the best period of Vlerick's career. Ineffable, 1962 Oil on Masonite board 91,5 x 61,5 cm (without frame) 93 x 63 cm (framed) Signed and dated Top Right ‘P. Vlerick 1962’ with title, signature place and date at the back: Ineffable P. Vlerick Afsnee 1962 Pierre Vlerick’s work shows some resemblance to Willem de Kooning’s. While the Dutch American was famed for the wild manner in which he treated his canvas, Pierre Vlerick showed some more restraint, but making a painting was in any case a slow process of stopping and starting and revising. His exploration is meant to result in a correct proportion of colour fields and streaks, often applied layer upon layer. All his colors have a luminous intensity. It was mainly Bonnard’s colorful work that inspired Vlerick to compose his own singular range of colors of slightly tingling yellows, greens, oranges and bits of blue here and there. Abstraction is emphasized by his use of color. Colors not associated with objects from daily life often dominate the composition: purple, for instance. This is the basis for his continuing abstraction, ending up as color fields combined with organic elements depicted with the vaguest of contours. Though both artists create a very metropolitan, say even worldly art, their work evokes nature. De Kooning has been called a master of ‘abstract landscape’. The structure of Vlerick’s works, too, is very vegetable and organic. No wonder he referred to his paintings as his ‘gardens’. Neither artist allowed his garden to remain empty: de Kooning created a female figure looking like a cross between a floozy and the mother goddess. Vlerick imagined a woman who is enjoying her body. Vlerick’s approach to abstract art is the same as de Kooning’s; they refuse to paint in a figurative manner, yet at the same time do not wish to renounce referring to reality. De Kooning once put it very accurately during an interview when he conceded that painting the human figure any longer was absurd(in the post-war period), but also stated that it would be even more absurd not to do it. The only way out of this ambiguous dilemma is the deconstruction of the human figure. Not in order to reject it, but to show it in all its fragility. Pierre Vlerick’s exceptional artistic talents were already recognized while he was studying at the Ghent Academy (1940-1944) whereupon graduating he received a gold medal. In 1947-1948 Vlerick enrolls at the “la Grande Chaumière Academy”, a Parisian private academy which attracts lots of foreign artists thanks to the reputation of its most important teachers such as Maurice Denis (1870-1943). Denis was one of the founding fathers of “the Nabis” and is also considered to be the godfather of abstract art by many artists and art critics. Maurice Denis is famous for his quote: "Remember that a painting, before it is any kind of representation, is essentially a flat surface covered with colors in a certain collected order." At La Grande Chaumière, Vlerick is challenged to develop a pictorial language of his own. Vlerick develops a way to translate the observed reality into visions of color and form, which can be situated somewhere on the axis between the figurative and the abstract. Reality is decomposed and reconstructed into a complete new representation. After a trip to Spain in 1955 the painter evolves towards the use of brighter colors. At the Brussels World Exhibition of 1958 (Expo 58) Vlerick is for the first time confronted with real works of 17 American artists (William Baziotes, James Brooks, Sam Francis, Arshile Gorky, Adolph Gottlieb, Philip Guston, Grace Hartigan, Franz Kline, Willem de Kooning, Robert Motherwell, Barnett Newman, Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, Theodoros Stamos, Clyfford Still, Bradley Walker...

Born in 1934, the work of Suzanne Bloomfield represents the life force which binds us all -- a universal symbol for the soul's transformation. Bloomfield believes that painting is the discovering of beautiful secrets which are only uncovered in the searching. Her painting blends encaustic (an ancient painting method which adds pigment to heated beeswax) with oils. Her selected exhibitions include: Permanent Collection Archives, American Album, The National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, DC; Foreign Exhibition Tour of India, National Association of Women Artists-Centennial Year, New York City; and International Latin American Exposition, Miami Florida. "Quickening" Female Abstract Expressionist Artist 1970 Red...

Jim’s of Lambertville is proud to offer this artwork. Signed Lower Right Joseph Meierhans (1890 - 1980) Joseph Meierhans is one of the most important modernist painters associate...

Jim’s of Lambertville is proud to offer this artwork by: Lloyd R. Ney (1893 – 1964) Called “Bill” by his friends, Lloyd Ney was one of the pioneers of Modernist art in New Hope. Ne...

Two rectangles with one in black layered on the other one in red on masonite. A triangle is cut from the corner of the red rectangle and being placed on top of the red rectangle. Acrylic on masonite Lucio Pozzi (b. 1935) was born in Milan and moved to the United States in 1962 as a guest of the Harvard International Summer Seminar. His first of many exhibitions at Hal Bromm Gallery was in 1976. Though foremost a painter, Pozzi considers writing, drawing, and sculpture to be valuable tools to his art. He has an extensive teaching career as well, having lectured at Cooper Union, Yale Graduate Sculpture...

Genesis - Lights in the Sky, Original Resin Painting, 2018 Artist Commentary: My depiction on Genesis 1:14 - adding stars and planets. Keywords: multicolored, stars, abstract Artis...

Artist Commentary: In Genesis, the water on Earth and in the sky were separated. This is my depiction. Keywords: water, blue, abstract, waves, marble, water Artist Biography: Crea...

Completed when the artist was only 25, this painting references a fight between two mythological figures. Commonly called Furies, the Erinyes or Eumenides were Greek goddesses of ven...

A painting by Willem de Kooning. "Woman in a Rowboat" is an abstract, oil on paper laid on masonite painting executed in a lush and swirling palette primarily of greens, whites, beiges and yellow and depicting an abstracted, nude woman in a boat by Post War artist Willem de Kooning. "Woman in a Rowboat" is a seminal work by de Kooning that has a new fluidity which relates to his next major series of Woman paintings which he began in 1964. Signed lower left, "de Kooning.” Provenance: Allan Stone Gallery, New York Private Collection, New York Private Collection, Arizona Exhibition: North Hampton, Smith College Museum of Art; Cambridge, The New Gallery, Charles Hayden Memorial Library, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Willem de Kooning: a Retrospective from Public and Private Collections, April – June 1965 (Cambridge only) New York, Allan Stone Gallery, De Kooning/Cornell, February – March 1965 Rotterdam, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, American Paintings, September - October 1966, cat. no. 26 Dublin, The Royal Dublin Society, Rosc'67:The Poetry of Vision, November – December 1967, p. 201, illustrated Detroit, J.L. Hudson, Willem de Kooning: Three Decades of Painting, March – April 1968, no. 31 (exhibition checklist) Easthampton, Gild Hall...

Artist: Laurent Marcel Salinas, French (1913 - 2010) Title: Untitled, Grass 263 Medium: Oil on Masonite, signed LR Size: 15 x 18 inches