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Abstract Abstract Paintings

ABSTRACT STYLE

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
Color:  Brown
item #10 from series "Mystère de la Caverne de Platon"
Located in CHÂTILLON-EN-DIOIS, FR
Landscape with multiple readings, where the viewer's gaze can form its own imaginary universe
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2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings

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Oil

Children of the world ( Multidimensions 1 )
Located in Southampton, NY
J. Oscar Molina is a painter and sculptor as well as Founder of Oscar Molina Gallery in Southampton, NY. He is most well-known for his “Children o...
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Abstract Paintings

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Acrylic

Self-Portrait as Mad Queen
Located in New York, NY
Oil on canvas
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2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Self-Portrait as Hourglass
Located in New York, NY
Oil on canvas
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2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Contemporary Acrylic Painting Burning Ember On Canvas
Located in Toronto, CA
Burning Ember is painted on a wood panel, in acrylic. The size is 40" x 40". The painting hangs on a French cleat. Troy Smith is a Canadian artist, designer, sculptor and painter w...
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Abstract Paintings

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Canvas, Cotton Canvas, Acrylic, Wood Panel

Abstract Landscape Painting by Victor Manuel Gomez
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Large Format Abstract Pink & Black Mixed Media Painting by Cuban Artist Victor Manuel. Victor is an emerging talent born and raised in Havana. With a great sense of Havana’s always ...
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2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings

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Canvas, Cotton Canvas, Acrylic

"LE CYCLE DE LA VIE" Pollock style
Located in SAINT-ALPINIEN, FR
Hand-painted. Not a print. Painting is signed atfront and back. Dated. Contemporary FINE ART Original PAINTING, acrylics and spray paint on paper, unframed. Title: Le cycle de la v...
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2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings

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Spray Paint, Acrylic

French Contemporary Abstract Art by J.-L. Veret - The Sot Snail
Located in Paris, IDF
Acrylic & marouflaged paper mounted on canvas Jean-Luc Veret is a French artist born in 1953 who lives & works between Paris & Corancy, France. He recognizes himself as a protean ar...
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2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings

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Handmade Paper, Acrylic

Endpass
Located in ATLANTA, GA
About Behzad Tabar My background is in fine and graphic arts, working in a wide range of styles and mediums. My painting has evolved from realism, to surrealism, to abstract. I am mo...
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Abstract Paintings

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Oil

Breaching For The Stars, 2020, Mixed Media on Wood
Located in Atlanta, GA
2020 Mixed Media on Canvas 60 x 48 in. Signed by artist Justin Lyon's credits his introduction into the world of street art as the spark that led him to his style of work. Over the next several years, Justin started to take his art production more seriously. Inspired by the li- ves and work of Cy Twombly, Barry McGee, and Jean-Michel Basquiat, Justin refined his process and worked to develop a style all his own which is both thought- provoked and thought-provoking. Justin’s mediums include wood, acrylic, house paint, spray paint, oil stick, epoxy resin and pencil. He aims to produce art that sticks with the viewer long after they seen it. “What I am after is capturing the thoughts and feelings of the human condition with images and words that make you stop and think about what's in front of you.” Justin wants “to make honest art, raw art, vulnerable art...
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2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings

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Wood Panel, Mixed Media

Soffio
Located in New York, NY
Mixed Media Abstract on canvas. About the Artist: Nella was born, raised and educated in Italy in a family with a long heritage of...
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2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings

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Mixed Media

Chelleneshin 37
Located in Palm Beach, FL
Yari Ostovany is an American abstract artist of Iranian origins. He has lived in Tehran, Cologne, Los Angeles, San Francisco and in Reno. He is currently based in New York City. His ...
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2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings

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Cotton Canvas, Oil

Conjugations
Located in New York, NY
Cleve Gray Conjugations, 1975 Vermont Series Mixed media on paper 14 1/2 x 22 1/2 inches each
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1970s Abstract Abstract Paintings

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Acrylic, Archival Paper

Black Unicorn
Located in Brooklyn, NY
The artist constructs his spirit animal through mixed media. 48" x 60" Spray Paint, Oil, Construction Paper, Acrylic, Pastel, Marker
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Abstract Paintings

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Charcoal, Oil Crayon, Oil Pastel, Oil, Spray Paint, Acrylic

Whoosh
Located in Boca Raton, FL
An abstract painter who has been an active member of the New York art scene since the early 1980s, James Walsh follows in the modernist tradition of Pollock in using art to reveal it...
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Abstract Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

Abstract Expressionist painting- Namaste
Located in Beijing, CN
Description: Wan Rui acrylic on canvas 150 x 170cm dated 2020 About Wan Rui Wan rui is a chinese contemporary artist, born in 1970 in Hunan, China. The artist received her MA fro...
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2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

Night Pilgrim
Located in Palm Beach, FL
Yari Ostovany is an American abstract artist of Iranian origins. He has lived in Tehran, Cologne, Los Angeles, San Francisco and in Reno. He is currently based in New York City. His ...
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2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings

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Cotton Canvas, Oil

Interject
Located in ATLANTA, GA
About Behzad Tabar My background is in fine and graphic arts, working in a wide range of styles and mediums. My painting has evolved from realism, to surrealism, to abstract. I am mo...
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Abstract Paintings

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Oil

Becoming Us
Located in New York, NY
Isabel Turbán layers paintings with transfers, acrylic, charcoal, and other mixed media onto canvas or paper. Her abstract paintings manifest memory, cultural experience, and politi...
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2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings

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Mixed Media

All Apologies, 2020 Mixed Media on Canvas 48 x 30 in.
Located in Atlanta, GA
2020 Mixed Media on Canvas 48x48 in. Signed by artist Justin Lyon's credits his introduction into the world of street art as the spark that led him to his style of work. Over the next several years, Justin started to take his art production more seriously. Inspired by the li- ves and work of Cy Twombly, Barry McGee, and Jean-Michel Basquiat, Justin refined his process and worked to develop a style all his own which is both thought- provoked and thought-provoking. Justin’s mediums include wood, acrylic, house paint, spray paint, oil stick, epoxy resin and pencil. He aims to produce art that sticks with the viewer long after they seen it. “What I am after is capturing the thoughts and feelings of the human condition with images and words that make you stop and think about what's in front of you.” Justin wants “to make honest art, raw art, vulnerable art...
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2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings

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Canvas, Mixed Media

‘PORTAL 1 ( PROSPERO)’
Located in London, GB
‘PORTAL 1 ( PROSPERO) Abstract Oil and Acrylic on birch ply panel was exhibited at GALLERY46 show 'KNOCKING IT OUT OF THE PARK' - 5TH NOVEMBER – 12TH DECEMBER 2021 Sarah Pickstone's work is in the collections of The Royal Academy of Arts Societe Generale UK Art Collection Saatchi Collection The Walker Art Gallery National Museums of Liverpool The Mercer Art Gallery collection – Yorkshire Museums British School at Rome Teaching is an intrinsic part of Sarah Pickstone's practice and is currently 2019 – Mentor Turps Banana Painting...
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2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings

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Plywood, Oil, Acrylic

Creativity of Mind
Located in New York, NY
Abstract Painting. Can be hung vertically or horizontally. Muted hues. The surface is the result of an intriguing contrast. Acrylics glazed with resin. The acrylic’s softness an...
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2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings

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Resin, Acrylic, Canvas

Dragons Eye By Troy Smith Fine Art Abstract Art
Located in Toronto, CA
Title - Dragons Eye. Acrylic Painting by Artist Troy Smith. The painting is signed by the artist on the back and comes with a small brass plaque with the a...
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Abstract Paintings

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Canvas, Wood, Acrylic

Serie de los rosas #4
Located in New York, NY
Rebeca Mendoza Serie de los rosas #4, 2015 Oil on canvas 55 x 79 in (139.95h x 199.9w cm)
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2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Ombre et Lumiere
Located in Palm Beach, FL
Mixed-media on wood
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2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings

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Wood, Mixed Media, Acrylic

Ochur Scramble
Located in New York, NY
Abstract Expressionist Painting. Acrylic on Canvas. Collection from revered artist of NYC and The Hamptons. About the Artist: Part of the New York School Abstract Expressionists. Recognized around the world as the leading art movement after WW II. He showed with Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning and Franz Kline. 1921 born in Philadelphia 1934 – 38 Graphic Sketch Club 1938 – 40 Philadelphia Museum School of Art 1940 – 41 Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art 1942 – 45 WWII War Correspondent-Artist, Yank magazine 1946 – 47 Art Students League, Will Barnett 1947- 48 Hans Hofmann Academy 1960–1979 Instructor at: University of California, Berkeley, CA; Princeton University, Princeton, NJ; New York University, New York, NY; Columbia University, New York, NY; Brooklyn College, New York, NY; Temple University, Rome, Italy 2017 deceased Collections: Ciba-Geigy Collection Chase Manhattan Bank Art Institute of Chicago Corcoran Art Museum, Washington Eugene V. Thaw Collection Max Kozloff Collection Montana Historical Society, Montana New York University Norfolk Art Museum Robert Rosenblum Collection Sarah Lawrence Collection Union Carbide Collection University of California Museum University of Massachusetts University of Montana Walter P. Chrysler Collection Walker Art Center, Minneapolis Whitney Museum, New York Yellowstone Art Center, Montana Exhibitions: Individual 2020 Frankfurt TBD 2018 Galerie Barbara von Stechow, Frankfurt 2008 Suvretta House, St. Moritz, Schweiz Galerie Barbara von Stechow, Frankfurt 2006 Ludwigmuseum im Deutschherrenhaus, Koblenz Galerie Barbara von Stechow zu Gast in der Galerie Vömel, Düsseldorf 2005 Galerie Barbara von Stechow, Frankfurt New York „Abstract Expressionism” Galerie Barbara von Stechow, Dr. Alexander Georgieff & Dr. Peter Sewing bei Georgieff Capital, Frankfurt 2004 Galerie Barbara von Stechow zu Gast in der Galerie Vömel, Düsseldorf CherryStoneGallery, Massachusetts 2003 Galerie Barbara von Stechow zu Gast in der Galerie Vömel, Düsseldorf Galerie Barbara von Stechow, Frankfurt Kunstverein Augsburg 2002 ART Frankfurt, Galerie Barbara von Stechow, Frankfurt 2001 Galerie Barbara von Stechow, Frankfurt a. M. Art Cologne, Galerie Barbara von Stechow Denise Bibro Fine Art, New York City 2000 Galerie Barbara von Stechow, Frankfurt a. M. Art Frankfurt, Galerie Barbara von Stechow, Frankfurt a. M. Galerie Schröder & Dörr, Bergisch-Gladbach 1999 Galerie Peter Bäumler, Regensburg 1998 Conrad Hinrich Donner Bank, Hamburg 1996 Galerie Hexagon, Aachen Olaf Clasen Gallery, Köln 1995 Olaf Clasen Gallery, Köln Denise Bibro Gallery, New York City 1994 Olaf Clasen Gallery, Köln 1993 Galerie Peter Bäumler, Regensburg Bologna-Landi Gallery, East Hampton, New York 1992 Olaf Clasen Gallery, Köln Benton Gallery, East Hampton, New York 1991 St. Mary’s College, Maryland M 13 Gallery, New York City 1989 Randall Gallery, St. Louis, Mass. RH Love Gallery, Chicago, Illinois Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts (Morris Gallery), Pennsylvania 1988 Cyrus Gallery, New York City Benton Gallery, East Hampton, New York 1987 Armstrong Gallery, New York City 1986 Barbara Ingber Gallery, New York City 1984 Barbara Ingber Gallery, New York City 1982 The New School, New York City 1981 Benson Gallery, New York City 1980 Landmark Gallery, New York City 1978 Temple University Abroad, Rom 1977 Andre Zarre, New York City 1974 Bertha Schaefer, New York City 1973 Bertha Schaefer, New York City 1971 Westbeth Galleries, New York City 1965 University of Arkansas, Little Rock 1964 Princeton University, New Jersey 1963 Thibault Gallery, New York City 1962 Hacker Gallery, New York City 1960 Poindexter Gallery, New York City 1958 Poindexter Gallery, New York City 1957 Poindexter Gallery, New York City 1956 Ganymede Gallery, New York City 1954 Artists’ Gallery, New York City 1953 Hendler Gallery, Philadelphia 1952 New Gallery, New York City 1950 Artists’ Gallery, New York City Group Exhibitions: 2018 Titans In the Rough Denise Bibro Gallery, New York, NY 2011 Joe Stefanelli...
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Early 2000s Abstract Abstract Paintings

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Acrylic, Canvas

Higher Ground
Located in Boca Raton, FL
Richard Saba, the American abstract painter, is best known for works that relate to Lyrical Abstraction and Abstract Expressionism. He is renowned for his colorful palette, appearing vastly open yet concise and analytically conceived. The artist’s abstract works juxtapose geometric forms with organic splashes, much like celestial bodies seen through the Hubble Telescope...
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Abstract Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

Untitled 2002
Located in Barcelona, ES
The painting is being offered with a work and authenticity certificate
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Early 2000s Abstract Abstract Paintings

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Mixed Media

Untitled
Located in Barcelona, ES
The painting is being offered with a work and authenticity certificate
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Early 2000s Abstract Abstract Paintings

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Mixed Media

Cloud Waves . Organic Sculpture on wood backlit with an LED light
Located in Miami, US
Cloud sculpture. It is made up of a sculpture made of plaster and painted with acrylic and spray paint. The sculpture is assembled to a piece of painted wood, which in turn is assembled to a larger one, composing a single piece with several layers. The artwork is backlit with an LED light box...
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Abstract Paintings

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Plaster, Wood, LED Light, Mixed Media, Spray Paint, Acrylic

Ogeeche Lament
Located in ATLANTA, GA
You meet the Spanish artist Alexandro Santana and you think, cripes, can he be for real? So handsome, so flamboyant, so seductive, so amusing -- you’re not sure whether it’s intentional or inadvertent. And then you discover he is the son of a notorious Dominican admiral, that the tyrannical dictator Trujillo was best man at his parents’ wedding, that his mother was a fabled high-society beauty, that he grew up on battleships and estancias before going, inevitably, to Brown. Even more surprisingly, Santana stayed in Providence for graduate studies at the Rhode Island School of Design, where he received his degree in architecture, soon plying his trade in Manhattan and his adopted city of Savannah, where he eventually set up his own firm. Astonishingly, in this era of CAD, he draws every detail entirely by hand. Considering his tweeds, his bow ties, his drawl and debonair dress, it is perhaps not surprising to learn that Santana’s architectural taste is strongly neo-classical, inspired by the vernacular Palladianism of antebellum Georgia, with of course a touch of the Postmodern. Santana’s detailed and decorous architectural plans for his clients are complemented by drawings created for solely for himself -- exotic imaginary cityscapes and urban fantasias, like the dreams of Sir John Soane channeled through Aldo Rossi or John Hejduk...
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Abstract Paintings

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Oil

The scribe 2
Located in Lagos, NG
This abstract painting is illustrating the ancient writer symbols and drawing attention to the accient writer acrylic on canvas on 100x80 cm canvas
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Abstract Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic, Pen

All The Old Familiar Places
Located in Fresno, CA
The first time I heard the words “abstract expressionism” I was in New York, trying to grab another day of leave before the army shipped me overseas. At that time in 1952, while brow...
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2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings

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Oil, Acrylic

"Cactus Triptych" Abstract Painting (Triptych) 47" x 75" inch by YASMINE HASSAN
Located in Culver City, CA
"Cactus Triptych" Abstract Painting (Triptych) 47" x 75" inch by YASMINE HASSAN Yasmine Hassan’s still life portrayals of cacti and other stark foliage can scarcely be described as ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Abstract Paintings

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Wood, Mixed Media

"Abstract Calligraphy" Painting on canvas & wood 53" x 39" in by Ibrahim Khatab
Located in Culver City, CA
"Abstract Calligraphy" Painting on canvas & wood 53" x 39" in by Ibrahim Khatab Ibrahim Khatab was born in Cairo 1984, works as a co-teacher in Cairo University, he mixes between pa...
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Abstract Paintings

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Canvas, Wood, Acrylic

"Shimmering Skyline II" Abstract Painting 27.5" x 39" inch by Ahmed Farid
Located in Culver City, CA
"Shimmering Skyline II" Abstract Painting 27.5" x 39" inch by Ahmed Farid Born in Cairo, Egypt, in 1950 where he currently lives and works, Farid is an autodidact Egyptian painters...
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Abstract Paintings

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Wood, Mixed Media, Oil

"Abstract Calligraphy" Painting 58" x 67" inch by Ibrahim Khatab
Located in Culver City, CA
"Abstract Calligraphy" Painting 58" x 67" inch by Ibrahim Khatab Ibrahim Khatab was born in Cairo 1984, works as a co-teacher in Cairo Universit...
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Abstract Paintings

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Canvas, Wood, Acrylic

"Abstract Calligraphy" Painting 55" x 59" inch by Ibrahim Khatab
Located in Culver City, CA
"Abstract Calligraphy" Painting 55" x 59" inch by Ibrahim Khatab Ibrahim Khatab was born in Cairo 1984, works as a co-teacher in Cairo University, he m...
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Abstract Paintings

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Canvas, Wood, Acrylic

"Inferno" Abstract Painting 39" x 47" inch by Amal Nasr
Located in Culver City, CA
"Inferno" Abstract Painting 39" x 47" inch by Amal Nasr Acrylic on Wood “New Horizon” series There is a constant quest to restore the joy of discovery and the pleasure of the fir...
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Abstract Paintings

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Wood, Acrylic

"Longboats" Abstract Painting 39" x 47" inch by Amal Nasr
Located in Culver City, CA
"Longboats" Abstract Painting 39" x 47" inch by Amal Nasr “New Horizon” series There is a constant quest to restore the joy of discovery and the pleasure ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Abstract Paintings

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Wood, Acrylic

"Untitled" Painting Acrylic on canvas on wood 59"x55"in. by Ibrahim Khatab
Located in Culver City, CA
"Untitled" Painting Acrylic on canvas on wood 59"x55"in. by Ibrahim Khatab Ibrahim Khatab was born in Cairo 1984, works as a co-teacher in Cairo University, he mixes between paintin...
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Abstract Paintings

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Canvas, Wood, Acrylic

"Untitled" Painting Acrylic on canvas on wood 59"x55"in. by Ibrahim Khatab
Located in Culver City, CA
"IK00023" Painting Acrylic on canvas on wood 59"x55"in. by Ibrahim Khatab Ibrahim Khatab was born in Cairo 1984, works as a co-teacher in Cairo University, he mixes between painting...
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Abstract Paintings

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Canvas, Wood, Acrylic

Grey Grid - small, bright, colourful, geometric abstract, acrylic on canvas
Located in Bloomfield, ON
Precise squares and rectangles in orange, rust red, green, mauve and white dance and swirl on a washed grey-mauve ground in this acrylic by Milly Ristvedt. Color and the grid are the...
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2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

Anne Russinof, Linchpin, 2018, oil on canvas, 44 x 50 inches
Located in Darien, CT
Anne Russinof's newest works are part of a series in which she intimates baroque ceiling patterns. Having long been inspired by architectural forms and patterns because they provide ...
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2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

3D Abstract Acrylic Painting on Canvas by Serg Graff "Funny Critters", COA
Located in Framingham, MA
This stunning 3D abstract painting on canvas titled "Funny Critters" by artist Serg Graff is a must-have for any art lover. The colorful multi-colored painting features a fantasy-the...
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2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings

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Acrylic

"Pierced" (Four Abstract, Bold, Dye and Black Paintings on Stained Paper, Glass)
Located in Paris, IDF
PIERCED 2021 Paris, France Set of four, abstract, bold paintings framed between glass and wood. Tea-stain has been added to dye on paper, with matte black focal points created using...
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Abstract Paintings

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Acrylic, Glass, Paper, Ink, Wood

Portrait. 1975, oil on plywood, 32x27, 5 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Portrait. 1975, oil on plywood, 32x27,5 cm Abstract portrait Robert Elibekyan (1941) (Armenian: Ռոբերտ Էլիբեկյան; born 21 April 1941) is an Armenian pa...
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1970s Abstract Abstract Paintings

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Oil, Plywood

Talisman
Located in Buffalo, NY
A modern abstract collage and oil on panel by American artist James Koenig.
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1960s Abstract Abstract Paintings

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Mixed Media, Oil

Neutral and Gold Abstract, Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
A large abstract about the interaction of warm and neutral colors and touches of gold. Decorative, soft and serene, suitable for any interior. :: Painting :: Abstract :: This piece c...
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2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings

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Acrylic

Untitled
By Richard Pousette-Dart
Located in Miami, FL
Acrylic on masonite. This is a pivotal work in deep and radiant cobalt blue from 1950. It dipicts calligraphic and hieroglyph structures over a grid and pyramidal base by the first generation abstract expressionist. Provenance: Skinner: November 13, 1992 [Lot 00219}, The entry in the Skinner catalog indicates that the painting came directly from the artist to the family of the consignor to Skinner. Kaminsky Auctions. There is an unbroken paper trail that traces the ownership of the painting from the current owner, through two auction houses to the artist. Perfect unbroken provenance. Pousette-Dart was among the most inventive of the Abstract Expressionist generation, His uncanny talent was to expand the nature of abstraction and still make each mark each element very much his own; a reflection of what he called   "the concealed power of the spirit," he said, “not of the brute physical form."   His was not aiming for a singular, realized aesthetic formula but to expand the possibilities of painting; the transcendental in painting. Typical of such invention and exploration is this  painting  Untitled 1950 when the artist was only 34 years old and represented by one of the champions of the new American painting, Betty Parsons.  
A banner year for Pousette-Dart, the Museum of Modern Art acquired their first painting by the Minnesota born artist.  He worked on easel size works such as this painting an oil on masonite. At the same time Pousette-Dart was also working on larger scale works such as Path of the Hero, running over ten feet in length now in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.  Both contain fields of color articulated by a highly sophisticated white hieroglyphic vocabulary. Rather than demonstrate an expressionist sensibility, Pousette-Dart harnesses his more cerebral ideas transforming thick areas of paint into a more refined composition of geometric forms akin to the pattern and forms of say a stained glass window. In a way he is looking back at Fugue, 1940 a black and white composition which makes use of a similar format of painting albeit smaller. Color and form are minimal, but what Pousette-Dart has maximized is the rhythmic and syncopated character of painting casting his ideas into purely symbolic terms that one might link to the pictograms of Adolph Gottlieb. Nonetheless, nature is always at the core of Pousette-Dart’s thinking and dreaming. Here he has transformed the local Ramapo Mountains—where he will eventually move with his family to live and work— into a complex series of articulated fragments linked by style, scale and color.  The painting’s imagery built on two large triangles and reduced to just two colors, cobalt blue and white all outlined in black.  Pousette-Dart symbols stacked in horizontal and vertical rows:  blue is ground, white is language, symbolic of light, consciousness and awareness . The painting maintains a mystical character images compounded that formulate a secret code and linked to the series of white paintings Pousette-Dart authored in the first half of the 1950s. Get up close to the picture and you discover images within images a kind of picture puzzle...
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1950s Abstract Abstract Paintings

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Masonite, Acrylic

Metallurgy, OP Art Painting by Jack Brusca
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Jack Brusca, American (1939 - 1993) Title: Metallurgy Year: 1968 Medium: Oil on Canvas, signed, dated and titled verso Size: 20 x 20 in. (50.8 x 50.8 cm)
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1960s Abstract Abstract Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

'Sunset Over Asilomar' Original Contemporary Abstract Yellow &Orange Mixed Media
Located in Carmel, CA
Steven is now one of the top emerging artists in the U.S. His works are ground breaking, bold and imbued with unflinching disregard to painting conventions. ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Abstract Paintings

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Canvas, Oil, Charcoal

Dynamic Superface 2019 - Geometric Abstract
Located in New York, NY
This hand painted piece by Lucchetta is part of the op art series where he is able to catch movement with his unique technique. Lucchetta is challenging himself. His precise stable h...
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2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings

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Wood, Paper, Ink, Acrylic, Cardboard

We Are the Fire, Painting, Acrylic on Paper
Located in Yardley, PA
Painting is on heavy paper and varnished with a semi-gloss finish. For an additional $100 shipping cost,at purchaser’s request, the art can be permanently mounted on a wood panel w...
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2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings

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Acrylic

Large Michael David Abstract Expressionist Encaustic Painting Museum Exhibited
Located in Surfside, FL
Michael David (b. 1954) Billie's Tree Signed, Titled, and Dated 1982 Verso. Provenance: Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago (bears label en verso) where it had been exhibited for nearly two decades. It was also Exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA NYC) just after he won the National Guggenheim Award. The Piece Measures approximately 70" x 71" x 8" Deep. Michael David Singer; born 1954, is an American painter. Born in Reno, Nevada, David's family relocated to Brooklyn, New York, where he was raised. He attended SUNY Fredonia for one year and in 1976 received a B.F.A. from Parson's School of Design. Michael David is classified as an abstract painter, best known for his use of the encaustic technique, a was pigmentation technique which incorporates pigment with heated beeswax. He is also known for his works in mixed-media figure painting, photography and environmental sculpture. He often incorporates religious iconography and symbolism, art historical themes such as the nude, and contemporary politics into his paintings resulting in a critical dialogue between the layered abstraction of the surface and the integrated representational imagery. His work is included in the permanent public collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Guggenheim Museum, the Jewish Museum in New York, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, among others. In 1976 David, erotic photographer Roy Stuart and Fredonia friend Richie Stotts formed a band called The Numbers, with David on bass. The group was a fixture in New York's early punk rock music scene, playing in clubs alongside punk pioneers Television, Blondie and the Ramones. David also played bass with punk innovators Jerry Nolan of The New York Dolls, Cheetah Chrome of The Dead Boys, Marky Ramone, Peter Gordon, David Van Tieghem and the free-improvisation noise music group Borbetomagus. In 1977, The Numbers were approached by impresario Rod Swenson, who was seeking musicians to form a backing band for singer Wendy O. Williams, whose radical persona he sought to exploit as punk music and performance art. The Numbers became The Plasmatics but the attention David began to gain as an important voice in the art world caused him to leave the band to pursue his burgeoning painting career. David's first one-man show was in 1981 at the historic Sidney Janis Gallery. That year he was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship, at the time the youngest artist ever to do so, and in 1982 was awarded an American Academy of Arts and Letters prize. He went on to exhibit at galleries worldwide and was represented by Knoedler & Co. for the next 25 years. David is best known for using the encaustic technique of painting, which uses pigment combined with heated beeswax. David built his early career on abstraction and religious iconography, which formed the bulk of his output until 1999. Since then he has also experimented with representational painting and traditional photography. In 2000, he developed the "Chortens" and "Populations" series, about which prominent art historian and critic Donald Kuspit writes: "They are enigmatic works, all the more so because of the way their innumerable details form singularly monumental, intimidating wholes. Dense yet delicate, awesome yet intimate, they convey the fragility as well as grandeur of sheer being. Layer upon layer of paint piles up like layer upon layer of coral, but the textural result is more epic, not to say startling, than any coral island, and virtually any other existing abstract expressionist painting (upon which they are stylistically founded)." In 2001, David developed bi-lateral neuropathy due to being poisoned by gases released by overheated beeswax used in the encaustic process. The disease left him with partial paralysis of his legs, slowing the production of his painting for a number of years. That year, David began painting one of his best-known series, the "fallen Toreadors", inspired by 19th century French Realist painter Édouard Manet's "The Dead Toreador" of 1864. In 1993, David experimented at the "20x24" Polaroid studio in Manhattan, which resulted in a series of portraits of playwright Edward Albee and of friend Jackie Gross, which would become the ongoing "Jackie" series of mixed-media works. When neuropathy rendered him unable to paint during 2003, he returned to the 20x24 camera and shot large-format Polaroids inspired by Caravaggio; nude men and women dressed as Toreadors, and religious imagery. In 2002, David began to develop The Greenhouse Project, an evolving "architectural construct" based on historical American Antebellum greenhouses built using the actual glass negatives sold to starving farmers in the post-American Civil War South. David has indicated that each greenhouse will, through the display of photography and use of social networking, create a forum and exhibit for ideas and artifacts related to civil and human rights; the specifications of each greenhouse particular to the community in which each is built. David's work was reviewed in Artforum and Art in America, and is considered one of the last links to the New York School of painting. David may be the most innovative master of immediate surface since the abstract expressionists. He has acknowledged his debt to Abstract Expressionism, but he has transformed it. Where the abstract expressionist paintings of the forties and fifties seem like modern cave paintings, as their crude, unfocused, often meandering, turbulent painterliness suggests, and as such to reinstate prehistory, David seems to turn the cave into a temple, as his more considered, concentrated, indeed, dense, contemplative painterliness indicates, so that his paintings have the aura of post history. SELECT GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2023 Radiate, Garvey Simon, New York, New York 2021 Selections from NYFA - Courtesy of the Martin Z. Margulies Foundation, New York, New York 2020 Bill Lowe Gallery Presents: Masterworks from the Gallery 2016 The Golem, The Jewish Museum of Berlin, Berlin, Germany In a Post-World: Post-Punk Art Now, The Invisible Dog Art Center, Brooklyn, New York 2014 Gallery Artists, Bentley Gallery, Pheonix, Arizona 2011 Post Mammalian Tension: Michael David & Scott Browning, Bill Lowe Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia 1999 Waxing Poetic: Encaustic Art in America, Montclair Art Museum, (Jasper Johns, Jackson Pollock, Robert Rauschenberg etc) Forty Years of American Drawings, Raab Galerie, Berlin, Germany Germany Summertime, Knoedler & Company, New York, New York 1997 Michael David and James Hyde...
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1980s Abstract Abstract Paintings

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Wood, Paint, Encaustic, Wax

White fabric 2019 - abstract painting
Located in New York, NY
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2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings

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Wood, Ink, Acrylic, Cardboard

"Fragments" Modern Textured Neutral Toned Abstract Mixed Media Painting
Located in Houston, TX
Modern neutral toned abstract mixed media painting by Texas artist Carole Myers. The work features a collage of different textured papers combined with pa...
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1980s Abstract Abstract Paintings

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Paper, Mixed Media

Vintage Vertical Abstract #5
Located in Soquel, CA
Colorful vintage abstract expressionist painting by Les (Leslie Luverne) Anderson (American, 1928-2009), circa 1970. From the e...
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1970s Abstract Abstract Paintings

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Masonite, Oil

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