Contemporary Abstract Paintings
CONTEMPORARY STYLE
Used to refer to a time rather than an aesthetic, Contemporary art generally describes pieces created after 1970 or being made by living artists anywhere in the world. This immediacy means it encompasses art responding to the present moment through diverse subjects, media and themes. Contemporary painting, sculpture, photography, performance, digital art, video and more frequently includes work that is attempting to reshape current ideas about what art can be, from Felix Gonzalez-Torres’s use of candy to memorialize a lover he lost to AIDS-related complications to Jenny Holzer’s ongoing “Truisms,” a Conceptual series that sees provocative messages printed on billboards, T-shirts, benches and other public places that exist outside of formal exhibitions and the conventional “white cube” of galleries.
Contemporary art has been pushing the boundaries of creative expression for years. Its disruption of the traditional concepts of art are often aiming to engage viewers in complex questions about identity, society and culture. In the latter part of the 20th century, contemporary movements included Land art, in which artists like Robert Smithson and Michael Heizer create large-scale, site-specific sculptures, installations and other works in soil and bodies of water; Sound art, with artists such as Christian Marclay and Susan Philipsz centering art on sonic experiences; and New Media art, in which mass media and digital culture inform the work of artists such as Nam June Paik and Rafaël Rozendaal.
The first decades of the 21st century have seen the growth of Contemporary African art, the revival of figurative painting, the emergence of street art and the rise of NFTs, unique digital artworks that are powered by blockchain technology.
Major Contemporary artists practicing now include Ai Weiwei, Cecily Brown, David Hockney, Yayoi Kusama, Jeff Koons, Takashi Murakami and Kara Walker.
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Item Ships From: Europe
Style: Contemporary
Immanence V
Located in Miami, FL
Alexandre Valette has a master degree in Art History and is a complete artist, influenced by the work of the great masters. He explores from a young age drawing through the human ana...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Wild Welsh Daffodils, Original painting, Flowers, Landscape, Nature, Abstract
Located in Deddington, GB
A scene of a Welsh woodland with wild daffodils dancing in the breeze in early spring sunshine. The composition is made up of soft pastel greens and blue-greens of the foliage agains...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Golden Buddha: Oil and Gold Leaf on Canvas
By Sax Berlin
Located in Brecon, Powys
A work of True quality by this master artist Sax BERLIN. Quote from Sax
"….gaze into the face…with this piece the Buddha reveals himself to himself."
Sax Berlin is creating the Gre...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Gold Leaf
French Contemporary Art by Christiane Hess - Le Passage Secret
Located in Paris, IDF
Acrylic on canvas
Christiane Hess (Chrystral) is a French abstract artist born in 1951 who lives and works in Lalinde, near Bergerac in France. Her conversion to abstract art gives ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Cotswolds at harvest - Original painting, Malvern Hills, Landscape art
By Rupert Aker
Located in Deddington, GB
Big bales on the Cotswolds after the wheat harvest
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:
Oil Paint on Canvas
85 H x 105 W x 5 D cm (33.46 x 41.34 x 1.97 in)
Sold framed
Image size:
Height: 80cm...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The Prayer - Modern Figurative Oil Painting, Beach View, Landscape, Sunshade
Located in Salzburg, AT
Artodyssey
"Julita Malinowska's paintings belong to those, which once seen - are never forgotten. The open spaces, sometimes cool and bright, at other times heavily saturated with co...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Sunshades - Contemporary Figurative Oil Painting, Beach View, Colourful, Joyful
Located in Salzburg, AT
Artodyssey
"Julita Malinowska's paintings belong to those, which once seen - are never forgotten. The open spaces, sometimes cool and bright, at other times heavily saturated with co...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Bay of Poets - Mediterranean landscape on cotton canvas, limited edition of 5
Located in London, GB
'Bay of Poets' 2024
Cotton canvas print from limited edition of 5.
(Does not come with streatch bars, only canvas print)
Monocolour mediterranean landscape photography. Made usin...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Photographic Film, Cotton Canvas, Ink, Archival Ink, Photographic Paper,...
Stockbridge Down. Winter Walk., contemporary, painting, landscape
Located in Deddington, GB
Created as part of the Walks Collection which I began during Covid. These paintings all celebrate a particular walk done at a particular time of year! Stockbridge Down is one of my f...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
Ashley. Winter Walk, modern art, contemporary painting, landscape
Located in Deddington, GB
This painting is part of the Walks Collection which I began during the first Covid lockdown. This walk around the small Hampshire village of Ashley is one of my favourite places to g...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood
Farbenlichthaut no. 167 - contemporary modern organic sculpture painting relief
Located in Doetinchem, NL
Farbenlichthaut no. 167 is a contemporary modern organic sculpture painting relief by German artist Freddie Michael Soethout. The relief is made from a few hundred of hand-cut two mi...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Silicone, Plate Glass, Pigment
Journey of colour in the landscape. Gare Loch, landscape, nature, contemporary
Located in Deddington, GB
Evening light over the loch and a gentle glow from the moon encouraging pathways to be followed by eye over the hillside, shoreline and loch. The movement of soft light journeying an...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
English Meadow Landscape with Wild Red Flowers by Contemporary British Artist
Located in Preston, GB
English Meadow Landscape with Wild Red Flowers by Contemporary British Artist, Angela Wakefield.
Art measures 36 x 24 inches
Frame measures 42 x 30 inches
Presented in the highes...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Gesso, Canvas, Paint, Cotton Canvas, Acrylic, Watercolor
Polzeath Surfers, Cornwall, Original painting, Oil on canvas, Coastal art, Beach
Located in Deddington, GB
Polzeath Surfers is an Original Painting by Eleanor Woolley Painted in the Artist's Gloucestershire Studio, Polzeath Surfers is Inspired by a trip to Cornwall last Summer. Photograph...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Cottage Garden at Coleshill, landscape, floral, meadows
Located in Deddington, GB
This is a cottage garden belonging to a friend. It is gloriously untidy and in the summer is a riot of traditional flowers. Amongst the banks of greenery there are drifts of custard ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Acrylic
Garden with Ox-Eye Daisies and St James-wort, landscape, floral, meadows
Located in Deddington, GB
This is the artist's garden which is located directly in front of her studio. The flower bed has been sown with wildflower seeds indigenous to the Cotswolds, although a few other ran...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Acrylic
Polzeath Beach, Cornwall, Original painting, Oil on canvas, Coastal art, Beach
Located in Deddington, GB
Polzeath Beach is an Original Painting by Eleanor Woolley Painted in the Artist's Gloucestershire Studio, Polzeath Beach is Inspired by a trip to Cornwall last Summer. Photographs we...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
French Contemporary Art by Christiane Hess - Giboulee
Located in Paris, IDF
Acrylic on canvas
Christiane Hess (Chrystral) is a French abstract artist born in 1951 who lives and works in Lalinde, near Bergerac in France. Her conversion to abstract art gives ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Daymer Bay, Original painting, Landscape, Seascape, Abstract, Beach, Cornwall
By Rupert Aker
Located in Deddington, GB
Wide dramatic seascape of Daymer Bay and the Doom Bar.
Additional information:
Oil Paint on Canvas
Sold unframed
Image size:
Height: 50cm (19.69 in)
Width: 150cm (59.06 in)
ARTI...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
St Ives 8, Cornwall, Original painting, Abstract Landscape art, Modern, Blue
Located in Deddington, GB
Four years ago I was lucky enough to be offered a solo exhibition at the prestigious Penwith Gallery in St Ives. It gave me the excuse to create a collection of large paintings celeb...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
"White Landscape" Original Oil Paint on Canvas by Marilina Marchica
Located in Agrigento, AG
Landscape
100x100 cm
Original Art Ready to Hang
Marilina Marchica orients her pictorial research to the theme of subtraction, her attention is focused on the aesthetic and conceptu...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Pastel, Oil
ZiZi de Montparnasse: Contemporary Figurative Oil Painting by Sax Berlin
By Sax Berlin
Located in Brecon, Powys
An enigmatic portrait in oils from Berlin, stylised and elongated this person is a mysterious figure. ZiZi was a writer and poet who was a friend of the artist. It is certainly a re...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The View from Farley, Spring, modern art, contemporary painting, landscape
Located in Deddington, GB
Farley is on the edge of Winchester in Hampshire. Perched on top of the downs there are views in every direction. This is my interpretation of Spring. Ploughed fields, vibrant greens...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Metal
Silver View, Landscape, Tree, Seascape, Contemporary style
Located in Deddington, GB
Silver View [2021] by Rebecca Tucker
Original painting
Acrylic on cradled wooden panel
Sold frames, in white box tray frame, as shown in images
Please note that insitu images are pur...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Wood
Jungle Spirit no.2, Women, Nature, Floral, Contemporary Art
Located in Deddington, GB
Agnese Negriba Jungle Spirit no. 2 Original Figurative Painting Natural pigments, acrylic paint, Japanese gouache on handmade paper from India Image Size: 100 cm x 70 cm Sheet Size: ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Gouache, Pigment
Trees 5 November 10:52, Contemporary Landscape Painting, Minimalistic Forest
Located in Salzburg, AT
Robert Motelski's paintings are exceptional visions of nature, visions of space which surrounds us. They tell about being, fate and passing. They depend on the season of year, the ti...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Extinguishing The Campfire - Contemporary Expressive Minimalistic Painting
Located in Salzburg, AT
Joanna Mrozowska
Born in 1976 in Warsaw. Studied in the Department of Painting in the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw; she graduated with a Master’s degree in painting, with the cycle...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Cotton Canvas, Acrylic
Harlequin's Golden Collar: Contemporary Figurative Mixed Media Painting
By Sax Berlin
Located in Brecon, Powys
The latest rendition of Sax Berlin's interpretation of Harlequin. A beautiful piece evocative of medieval wall art where Harlequin wears his traditional hat, often shown in the modern world to have belonged to jesters but is really an allusion to the diamond pattern associated with Harlequin. There may also be a hidden reference to Picasso here; in Guernica Picasso...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Gold Leaf
BLACK JAWS - Contemporary Abstract Expressive Oil Pastel Painting
By Janusz Kokot
Located in Salzburg, AT
Janusz Kokot was born in Kalisz in 1960. He studied at the Pedagogical University in Częstochowa at the Art Institute. He practices painting and drawing. In the years 1988 - 2020 he ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Oil Pastel
Immanence III
Located in Miami, FL
Alexandre Valette has a master degree in Art History and is a complete artist, influenced by the work of the great masters. He explores from a young age drawing through the human ana...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
News from Eéa Timothy Archer Contemporary art painting mythology blue green oil
Located in Paris, FR
Oil painting and oil pastel on canvas
Unique work
Hand-signed by the artist
“ News from Eéa ”
“At the time of the last cosmogony I heard from Eéa
In the middle of the water, an isl...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil Pastel, Oil
"Landscape" Original Oil Paint on Canvas Made in Italy
Located in Agrigento, AG
Landscape
Oil on Canvas
Original Art Ready to Hang
65x50 cm
2023
...My painting tells of the relationship between man, nature and time, the landscape, the sign and the trace,
thr...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil Pastel, Oil
Landscape , Original Oil Paint on Canvas by Marilina Marchica
Located in Agrigento, AG
Landscape
oil on canvas
original Art made in Italy
Certificate of authenticity included
Marilina Marchica, born in 1984, was born in Agrigento, where she lives and works. She gr...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Cotton Canvas
Immanence IX
Located in Miami, FL
Alexandre Valette has a master degree in Art History and is a complete artist, influenced by the work of the great masters. He explores from a young age drawing through the human ana...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Time Out by Lilly Muth - Contemporary Architecture Villa Oil Painting
Located in DE
Lilly Muth's architectural paintings transport viewers on a visual journey to a different world, where imagination knows no bounds and the boundaries between reality and fantasy blur...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Thorns". Ink On 19th Century Paper
Located in Brecon, Powys
Ink on 19th Century Paper
If painting, like any other language, can be considered an abstract system of signs, there must be a pictorial vocabulary and syntactical rules which commu...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
India Ink, Archival Paper
Embrace the wonder of light and colour, Loch, landscape, nature, contemporary
Located in Deddington, GB
The artist said of the work: Painted initially based on the rocks looking over Loch Lomond, I then returned to my studio to complete this painting. It is atmospheric in its focus and...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Canvas
Wanderlust by Lilly Muth - Contemporary Architecture Villa Oil Painting
Located in DE
Lilly Muth conveys emotional or expressive feelings and ideas without reliance upon or reference to recognizable objective forms and thus wants the viewer of her art to search for th...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Timeless- 21st Century Contemporary abstract Painting of a beach
By Mitzy Renooy
Located in Nuenen, Noord Brabant
Mitzy Renooy
Timeless
160 x 120 cm
acryllic on canvas
Dutch artist Mitzy Renooy, a former camera woman for national television, went to art academy to learn to paint in an own styl...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Wood, Acrylic
Untitled - Contemporary Colorful Abstract Painting
By Eszter Radák
Located in East Quogue, NY
Bright, colorful, textured still life oil painting by Hungarian artist Eszter Radák (b. 1971).
Oil on canvas, 40 x 40 inches. Signed on back. Offered unframed.
Eszter Radák is a v...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Lily No.3 - Floral analogue photography on cotton canvas, limited edition of 5
Located in London, GB
'Lily No.3'
Cotton canvas print from limited edition of 5.
(Does not come with streatch bars, only canvas print)
Monocolour analogue floral photography. Made using a large format...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Photographic Film, Cotton Canvas, Ink, Archival Ink, Photographic Paper,...
Sunset Symphony by Lilly Muth - Contemporary Architecture Villa Oil Painting
Located in DE
Lilly Muth conveys emotional or expressive feelings and ideas without reliance upon or reference to recognizable objective forms and thus wants the viewer of her art to search for th...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Whispering Sky, landscape, nature, contemporary
Located in Deddington, GB
A beautiful soft saturated sky gently, slowly, rolling above head as I look over the River Clyde. Soft colours reflecting onto the shoreline, catching movement of water over shells, ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
THE VIEW - Contemporary Landscape, Modern Mountains and Nature Painting
By Anna Ładecka
Located in Salzburg, AT
Anna Ładecka is a Paris-based polish illustrator and painter.
Graduated from Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts, Master of Art - Diploma in painting and lithography and obtained a scholar...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Dancing Shoreline, Loch Goil, landscape, nature, contemporary
Located in Deddington, GB
The artist said of the work: "I am fortunate to have a simple studio looking onto the loch. It provides me with wonderful saturated skies and shorelines to paint"
ADDITONAL INFORMAT...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Canvas
Silence after the best day, River Clyde, Scotland, Original painting, Nature art
Located in Deddington, GB
Painted looking over the River Clyde at Ardmore Point Peninsula at my studio on Ardmore. It is atmospheric in its focus and I very much love its lovely rich colour and capture of wat...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Dive right in by Lilly Muth - Contemporary Architecture Villa Oil Painting
Located in DE
Lilly Muth's architectural paintings transport viewers on a visual journey to a different world, where imagination knows no bounds and the boundaries between reality and fantasy blur...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Untitled 5 - Modern Abstract Landscape Painting, Joyful, Colorful
By Anna Ładecka
Located in Salzburg, AT
Anna Ładecka is a Paris-based polish illustrator and painter.
Graduated from Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts, Master of Art - Diploma in painting and lithography and obtained a scholar...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Phenomena Winter Harth by Paul Jenkins - Abstract Expressionist painting
By Paul Jenkins
Located in London, GB
Phenomena Winter Hart by Paul Jenkins (1923-2012)
Oil and sand on canvas
66 x 122 cm (26 x 48 inches)
Signed, titled and dated on verso, Paul Jenkins “Phenomena Winter Harth” 1978
T...
Category
1970s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Silhouette, Landscape, Tree, Seascape, Contemporary style
Located in Deddington, GB
silhouette [2021] by Rebecca Tucker
Additional information:
Acrylic on Wood
30 H x 55.3 W x 3.2 D cm (11.81 x 21.77 x 1.26 in)
Sold framed
Original painting
Acrylic on cradled woode...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Wood, Acrylic
Mary And The Grain Of Mustard Seed, Oil and Gold and Silver Leaf Painting
By Sax Berlin
Located in Brecon, Powys
An almost gospel theme from Sax Berlin; harking to the parable of the mustard seed that we find in the gospel of Luke. Sax has combined this powerful imagery with the equally powerfu...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Gold Leaf
Planeta XV - contemporary modern mixed media sculpture painting relief
By Eliza Kopec
Located in Doetinchem, NL
Planeta XV is a unique small size round contemporary mixed media wall sculpture relief by renowned Polish-Dutch artist Eliza Kopec. This relief is part of a body of work that continu...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Epoxy Resin, Mixed Media
Garden Spirit no. 8, Women, Nature, Floral, Contemporary Art
Located in Deddington, GB
Agnese Negriba Garden Spirit no. 8 Original Figurative Painting Natural pigments, acrylic paint, Japanese gouache on handmade paper from India Image Size: 100 cm x 70 cm Sheet Size: ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Gouache, Pigment
Reflections - Contemporary abstraction - Oil Painting
Located in DE
Lilly Muth conveys emotional or expressive feelings and ideas without reliance upon or reference to recognizable objective forms and thus wants the viewer of her art to search for th...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
American Contemporary Art by David Paul Kay - Out of this World
Located in Paris, IDF
Mixed media on canvas
David Paul Kay is an American contemporary artist born in 1982 who lives and works in New York City, USA. With a focus on vibrant lines and intricate compositi...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media
Time to relax - Contemporary abstraction - Oil Painting
Located in DE
Lilly Muth conveys emotional or expressive feelings and ideas without reliance upon or reference to recognizable objective forms and thus wants the viewer of her art to search for th...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Planeta XVI - contemporary modern mixed media sculpture painting relief
By Eliza Kopec
Located in Doetinchem, NL
Planeta XVI is a unique small size round contemporary mixed media wall sculpture relief by renowned Polish-Dutch artist Eliza Kopec. This relief is part of a body of work that contin...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Epoxy Resin, Mixed Media
French Contemporary Art by Marie-Anne Decamp - Light of Freedom
Located in Paris, IDF
Acrylic on linen with gold leaves 22 carats
Marie Anne Decamp is a French artist born in 1973 who lives and works in Chambly in Oise in Picardy, near Paris. She belongs to the expre...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Gold
Contemporary abstract paintings for sale on 1stDibs.
Find a wide variety of authentic Contemporary 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 Anastasia Pelias, Chelsea Davine, Waleria Matelska, and Anna Maria Caboni. Frequently made by artists working with Paint, and Fabric and other materials, all of these pieces for sale are unique and have attracted attention over the years. Not every interior allows for large Contemporary abstract paintings, so small editions measuring 1.63 inches across are also available.