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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:  Red
Relay Race 2 (Abstract Painting)
Located in London, GB
Relay Race 2 (Abstract Painting) Acrylic on canvas - Unframed. Using the geometric vocabulary found in architectural schemata, Bolt tries to create a dynamic tension between foregr...
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2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

Mindscape Large Abstract Painting with Vibrant colors red blue green yellow
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...
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1990s Abstract Abstract Paintings

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Oil

Hit it (Abstract painting)
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...
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2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings

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Oil, Wood Panel

Red Swash (Abstract painting)
Located in London, GB
Red Swash (Abstract painting) Oil on gessoed Arches paper. Unframed. For Russinof, everything begins with color. She begins a painting by applying color in lyrical, gestural marks....
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2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings

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Paper, Oil

Six-Part Neon Geometric Abstract with Green, Orange, & Hot Pink
Located in Soquel, CA
Bold neon abstract composition in six parts with bright green, orange, and hot pink geometric forms by California artist Gary Ermoloff (American, b. 1949), 1982. Dated and signed on verso. Unframed. Gary Ermoloff (American b. 1949) attended the Academy of Art University in San Francisco, where he received his BA in Fashion Illustration. He is a former member of AIGA and a former Board Member...
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1980s Abstract Abstract Paintings

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Acrylic, Postcard

Colors and Structures I, Abstract Painting 2021 by Udo Haderlein
Located in Berlin, DE
Acrylic ink on board, 2021. Signed, titled and dated on the back. Framed. The artwork comes directly from the artist's studio. Height: 17.32 in ( 44 cm ), Width: 17.32 in ( 44 cm ), ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Abstract Paintings

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Board, Ink, Acrylic

Untitled 10 (Abstract painting)
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 by exploring the enigmatic ...
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2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings

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Paper, Oil, Acrylic

A Klimptian State of Mind, Abstract Painting, American Artist, Oil, Mixed Media
Located in Houston, TX
NOTICE GALLERY REDUCED PRICE SHIPPING COST. “It’s complicated.” This current popular phrase used by Gen X’ers and Millennials to describe a new love life paradigm on social media i...
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2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings

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Mixed Media, Oil

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...
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1960s Abstract Abstract Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Bursting Forth-Red 60 X 48
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Bursting Forth- Red 60 X 48 Acrylic on canvas Nancy Seibert began her art studies in Washington D.C. at George Washington University. She gradua...
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2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

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...
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Early 2000s Abstract Abstract Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

A12 - I am having so much fun (Abstract painting)
Located in London, GB
A12 - I am having so much fun (Abstract painting) Acrylic on paper - Unframed. The artist created this series shortly afterward arriving in NY. His interest was to see what respons...
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Early 2000s Abstract Abstract Paintings

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Paper, Acrylic

Ink #4 (Abstract painting)
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 ...
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2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings

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Paper, Ink, Watercolor, Gouache

Something Red, Contemporary Monochrome Minimalist Geometric Abstract
Located in Soquel, CA
A bold red monochrome abstract expressionist oil painting featuring a minimalist composition of small geometrical shapes outlined in black by unknown Bay Area artist (American, 20th ...
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Early 2000s Abstract Abstract Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

A History of Violence (Abstract Painting)
Located in London, GB
A History of Violence (Abstract Painting) Acrylic on canvas - Unframed. Matthew Langley's technique in creating the artworks come from building and extending as well as reducing an...
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2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

Betelgeuse: abstract expressionism drip painting in the style of Jackson Pollock
Located in Bryn Mawr, PA
Dennis Alter's layered and textured oil on canvas paintings abstract expressionist drip paintings in the style of Jackson Pollock are rich with painterly activity. Gestural brushwork...
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2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings

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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 ...
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2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

Geometric abstract Op Art Pop Art painting in orange & red w/ triangles & cubes
Located in Bryn Mawr, PA
Benjamin Weaver creates spatial tension through his use of contrasting colors arranged in a geometric framework. Imagery and color work both with and against each other to create mov...
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2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

Tantra series: suite of 4 red minimalist mandala wall sculptures / paintings
Located in Bryn Mawr, PA
This is a suite of four 12" x 12" canvas panels in Antonio Puri's "Tantra" sculptural painting series of intimately-scaled minimalist round mandala circle...
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2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings

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Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic

"Spiritual Advisor" Red, Orange, and Navy Modern Abstract Expressionist Painting
Located in Houston, TX
Modern abstract expressionist painting influenced by Mark Rothko's color field paintings that incorporates red, orange, and navy tones. Signed in lower right corner as well as titled...
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20th Century Abstract Abstract Paintings

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Oil

Rich Earth
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Acrylic on board
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Abstract Paintings

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Acrylic, Board

Tantric View: spiritual minimalist abstract sculpture painting w/ tiny red beads
Located in Bryn Mawr, PA
Antonio Puri's "Tantric View" is an intimately-scaled minimalism diptych (two paneled) sculptural painting built from tiny beads adhered to the canvas in a range of red hues, creatin...
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2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings

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Mixed Media, Acrylic, Canvas

Red Swash (Abstract painting)
Located in London, GB
Red Swash (Abstract painting) Oil on gessoed Arches paper. Unframed. For Russinof, everything begins with color. She begins a painting by applying color in lyrical, gestural marks....
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2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings

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Paper, Oil

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...
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2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

Shades of Change, Abstract Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA

Artist Comments
In this vibrant abstract by artist Robin Okun, nudes radiate life in bright reds and pinks. They glow in luminescent golden accents, creating a striking contr...

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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Abstract Paintings

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Acrylic

Bass Clef - contemporary abstract oil painting in pink, violet, & orange
Located in Bryn Mawr, PA
Dennis Alter's layered and textured oil on canvas paintings are rich with painterly activity. Gestural brushwork, heavy impasto, and layers upon layers of color lend a complexity to ...
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2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Mary Didoardo "Time Passing" -Abstract oil painting on wood panel
Located in New York, NY
Mary Didoardo Time Passing, 2021 oil on wood panel 30 x 30 in. (dido081) In order to make a meaningful painting I have to establish form somewhere in the swirl of line, texture and ...
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2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings

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Oil, Wood Panel

Circular Souls (Abstract Painting)
Located in London, GB
Circular Souls (Abstract Painting) Acrylic on linen - Unframed. Australian abstract artist Louise Blyton employs precise, Reductivist methods to create lucid, harmonious, multidime...
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2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings

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Linen, Acrylic

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...
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2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

Mesmer, 2008
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 intentio...
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Abstract Paintings

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Mixed Media

Carmin Spectra ( Florescent garden) 2, Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
Three canvases 18W x 24 H x 1.5 in each. Expressive contemporary modern abstract, bold, full of life, motion, gloss and shimmer! inspired by nature, shades of pink, red combined w...
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Abstract Paintings

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Acrylic

Untitled 10 (Abstract painting)
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 by exploring the enigmatic ...
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2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings

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Paper, Oil, Acrylic

Composition XXI - square painting in light, grey, peach and red burgundy color
Located in Fort Lee, NJ
Composition XXI - A abstarct square painting in light, grey, peach and red burgundy color. The author used oil on canvas with sawdust mixed with alabaster and sand creating a special...
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Early 2000s Abstract Abstract Paintings

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Alabaster, Sandstone

Sarah Foat, Telling my Story, Contemporary Art, Affordable Art, Art Online
Located in Deddington, GB
Sarah Foat Telling my story Original Painting Acrylic on Canvas Canvas Size: H 40cm x W 40cm x D 3.5cm Signed Sold Unframed (Please note that in situ images a...
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Abstract Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

Landscape. Oil on canvas by Tetsuo Mizu (1987) (abstract geometric painting)
Located in Hong Kong, HK
Tetsuo Mizu (1944) Landscape Executed in 1987 Oil on canvas 80.3 x 100 cm (39 3/8 x 31 1/2 in) Dated and Signed “1987 MIZU” (lower left) Signed, dated, an...
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1980s Abstract Abstract Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

1978 (red)
Located in Phoenix, AZ
oil and wax on linen
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1970s Abstract Abstract Paintings

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Wax, 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...
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2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings

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Acrylic

Lava rocks - XXL abstract landscape, Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
An original one-of-a-kind palette knife painting. Layer upon layer of thin coats of colors. Each layer finds its way to the surface between the ''broken'' surface created with a pal...
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Abstract Paintings

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Acrylic

Untitled, archived no. 46
Located in La Canada Flintridge, CA
Untitled AbEx, Red and Yellow, 1990's, 12x16 in., acrylic on paper, sighed lower right.
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1990s Abstract Abstract Paintings

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Acrylic

Liminal Icon (Monument I), (Abstract Painting)
Located in London, GB
Liminal Icon (Monument I), (Abstract Painting) Mixed media on paper - Unframed Artwork exclusive to IdeelArt. Although the initial inspiration for a painting might come from a fl...
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2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings

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Paper, Mixed Media

Two Seated Figures
Located in La Canada Flintridge, CA
Two seated figures, 2019, 30x40 inches, oil on canvas, signed lower right. Artist certificate of authentic is included. The distinct quality of Koko’s painti...
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2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings

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Oil

In Speed - Acrylic by Leo Guida - 1992
Located in Roma, IT
In Speed (Original Title: In velocità) is an original Contemporary artwork realized in 1992 by the italian artist Leo Guida (1992 - 2017). Original Acrylic on wood. Frame is includ...
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1990s Abstract Abstract Paintings

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Acrylic

Ink #4 (Abstract painting)
Located in London, GB
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 from left to right, stacking...
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2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings

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Paper, Ink, Watercolor, Gouache

Rouge (Abstract painting)
Located in London, GB
Ink on paper - Unframed. Reyna works with ink, acrylics and oils on canvas or paper. One of his signature techniques is to dilute his mediums so the colors will dissipate and interm...
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2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings

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Paper, Ink

Spring
Located in Westport, CT
This two piece red relief work is by Korean artist, Jaena Kwon. It is in two parts: 39 x 48 inches and 22 x 21 1/2 inches. The space between elements is variable. Kwon's work is c...
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2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings

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Acrylic, Fiberboard

Cubes Divided Equally into Three #15: abstract geometric painting w/ pinks
Located in Bryn Mawr, PA
This painting would make a lovely Valentine's Day gift, order today in time for holiday delivery! This geometric abstract acrylic on canvas Op Art painting is part of Weaver's "Cubes...
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2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

In a Heartbeat (Abstract painting)
Located in London, GB
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 surface. An interplay of co...
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2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings

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Oil, Wood Panel

Tantra 57: minimalist abstract mandala sculpture painting, red circles
Located in Bryn Mawr, PA
Antonio Puri's "Tantra" sculptural painting is one of 100 intimately-scaled minimalist round mandala circles built from tiny seed beads adhered to canvas in a range of red hues, crea...
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2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings

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Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic

Acrylic Abstract Colorful Contemporary Gilt Collage Painting Gold Leaf Gilding
Located in Surfside, FL
Titled: Chants. Hand signed and dated. Sonja Kuhfahl (1928-) is a German born woman artist. She began her art career studying fashion design in Europe,...
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1990s Abstract Abstract Paintings

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Gold Leaf

Sun Zoom Spark (Abstract painting)
Located in London, GB
Acrylic and pumice on post office bag, linen, hessian sacking and canvas - Unframed. Anthony Frost, son of Sir Terry Frost RA, is an English abstract artist whose vibrant, colorful ...
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2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

Red plaster by Gilbert Pauli - Acrylic on plaster 32x32 cm
Located in Geneva, CH
Born in 1944 in the canton of Fribourg, Gilbert Pauli currently lives in Geneva, where he devotes himself to painting and sculpture, a passion he developed from his childhood. His fa...
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Abstract Paintings

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Acrylic

Abstract Red Persimmon Oil Painting on Panel Marylyn Dintenfass Modernist
Located in Surfside, FL
Provenance: Babcock Galleries (bears their label verso. signed verso with artists monogram signature. Marylyn Dintenfass (born 1943) is an American painter, printmaker, and sculptor. She is primarily known for her oil paintings, which use a dynamic color palette and lexicon of gestural imagery to explore dualities in the human experience and everyday sensual pleasures. Marylyn Dintenfass was born in 1943 in Brooklyn, New York and spent most of her early years in Brooklyn and then Long Island. She attended Queens College, and graduated in 1965 with a bachelor's degree in Fine Arts. During this time, the artist worked with Abstract Expressionist painter John Ferren and muralist Barse Miller. Marilyn Dintenfass explored new media and developed her own reaction to abstract expressionism with color, line, and gesture. Dintenfass acquired an appreciation for a broad range of materials that led to major sculpture installations composed of ceramic materials, steel, lead, wood, wax and a variety of pigments and epoxies. Following a tour of museums in Amsterdam, Paris and Rome, the artist made her way to Jerusalem in 1966. During this journey, the artist worked with painter Ruth Bamberger, studied etching and mingled with the artists and intellectuals of the city. The result was Dintenfass's first architectural commission, to design the “Pop Op Disco,” Jerusalem's first disco. This commission allowed her to work with an array of materials to employ shapes, surfaces, textures, colors, and lights, all of which coalesced in her consciousness that would become important components of her mature personal visual vocabulary. Dintenfass also married and started her family during these years. Art critic Meredith Mendelsohn writes, “Dintenfass uses luscious colors, repetitive forms, and a gestural intensity that combines Abstract Expressionism and Pop Art.” Dintenfass often works with oil paint on wooden panels fragmented into parts of a grid. "After completing a painting," writes curator and critic Lilly Wei in a study of Dintenfass' work, "Dintenfass literally takes it apart, treating each panel as a discrete entity, exchanging panels between works in an aesthetic mix and match as she searches for interactions and relationships of color and form that satisfy her sense of visual excitement, sparked by the frisson of the dissonant." In an interview with critic Irving Sandler, Dintenfass speaks of the grid as a necessary, formal restraint for the passion of the gestural marks it contains. Joyce Robinson illuminates; “Dintenfass is at heart, though, a painter, and the grid, with its reference to and notion of modular parts, has remained central to her artistic enterprise, functioning as a kind of Apollonian matrix holding in check the exuberant, vividly colored abstractions of this essentially Dionysian artist.” Lilly Wei adds, "Ultimately, however, Dintenfass is more sensualist than theorist, and her paintings owe much of their allure to their materiality and the dazzle of color. Her array of ripe, radiant, saturated hues—a palette of gorgeous diversity—can be silkily smooth and nuanced; boldly exuberant; or edgily, feverishly discordant." The artist's abstract imagery usually appears in her work as various forms of stripes or circles arranged across translucent layers of alternating matte and high gloss textures. In a conversation with gallery owner, John Driscoll, Dintenfass likens these symbols to language that predates the written word, saying her "work relates to communication through the visceral channel." Rooted in autobiography, the artist's paintings also examine the contrast between what she calls the “micro” and the “macro.” At times the shapes simultaneously resemble cells under a microscope and visions of the cosmos. Dintenfass' themes explore the dualities of everyday pleasures; depending on the focus of a series, her symbols might conjure characters, candies, car wheels, or paint itself. Although known for her paintings, Dintenfass was first recognized for her sculptural installations. Her innovative use of mixed media (ceramics, epoxies, wax, pigments, steel, lead, wood, etc.) transformed understanding of what a “ceramic” work of art could be and firmly fixed her position and influence among a generation of mixed media artists expanding the traditional definitions and boundaries of object and materials to create modern art. The results came as architectural reliefs and installation sculpture unique to her organic but structural personal style. Similar to her paintings, Dintenfass developed a modular language of symbols, amalgams of line and curve, which she would combine to create detailed pictographic languages all her own, what she has called “organic alphabets.” As Ted Castle relates, “Ideas are furtive elements, stolen from the matrix, so as to be reformed by human genius into something unforeseen—a poem, a painting, a game of dominoes, a television set, a brick, a tile, a cup. Marylyn Dintenfass is a master of the transformation of ideas into palpable form.” Dintenfass has also been commissioned to create many large-scale installations, including works for the State of Connecticut Superior Courthouse; the Port Authority of NY 42nd Street Bus Terminal; IBM in Atlanta, Charlotte, and San Jose; The Baltimore Federal...
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Early 2000s Abstract Abstract Paintings

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Oil, Panel

Work V. Oil on canvas by Tadashi Sugimata, executed in 1961 (abstract painting)
Located in Hong Kong, HK
Tadashi Sugimata (1914-1994) WORK V oil on canvas 41 x 53.2 cm (16 1/8 x 20 7/8 in) not considering the frame Executed in 1961 Signed Signed and titled in Japanese in the back A...
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1960s Abstract Abstract Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Untitled 10 (Abstract painting)
Located in London, GB
Acrylic and oil on paper - Unframed Claude Tétot is a French abstract artist whose work expresses harmony in disharmony by exploring the enigmatic unity that can exist between seemi...
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2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings

Materials

Paper, Oil, Acrylic

'Setting Sun', Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
Original acrylic, abstract painting created on gallery style canvas. Note* Shipping to International locations 'Everywhere Else' is an estimate only. Please contact Zatista for a s...
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2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings

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Acrylic

Large Colorful Abstract Expressionist Painting by William Hewes
Located in Long Island City, NY
A large, dramatic abstract oil painting by Contemporary artist Bill Hewes. William (Bill) Hewes is an American self-taught artist. Hewes was born in Easthampton, Massachusetts in 1957. Before becoming an artist in 2012 Hewes worked in the building trades for 40 years and often uses the skills learned from his tradesman work within his artwork. Hewes paints in the Action/Drip style, even building his own spinning table...
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2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings

Materials

Enamel

Drizzles expressions (over neon), Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
Painting: Acrylic on Canvas. Three canvases16 W x 20 H x 0.7 in each. Expressive modern abstract, bold full of life, gloss and shimmer! inspired by nature. Lots of drizzles, ye...
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Abstract Paintings

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Acrylic

Chasm, Abstract Oil Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA

Artist Comments
"This painting captures a notion that reality consists of two opposing states," explains artist Shyun Song. "The dark line between the warm and cool colors st...

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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Abstract Paintings

Materials

Oil

Abstract abstract paintings for sale on 1stDibs.

Find a wide variety of authentic Abstract abstract paintings available for sale on 1stDibs. Works in this style were very popular during the 21st Century and Contemporary, but contemporary artists have continued to produce works inspired by this movement. If you’re looking to add abstract paintings created in this style to introduce contrast in an otherwise neutral space in your home, the works available on 1stDibs include elements of blue, purple, orange, red and other colors. Many Pop art paintings were created by popular artists on 1stDibs, including Nestor Toro, Giorgio Lo Fermo, Newel Hunter, and Sumit Mehndiratta. Frequently made by artists working with Paint, and Synthetic Resin Paint and other materials, all of these pieces for sale are unique and have attracted attention over the years. Not every interior allows for large Abstract abstract paintings, so small editions measuring 0.1 inches across are also available.

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