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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
"Cairene I" Abstract Painting 20" x 28" inch by Salah Boutros
Located in Culver City, CA
"Cairene I" Abstract Painting 20" x 28" inch by Salah Boutros Salah Boutros was born in 1964 in Cairo where he still lives and works. He gained a BA degree from the Faculty of Fine ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Interior Paintings

Materials

Paper, Acrylic

"Abstract Composition 4" Painting 10" x 14" inch by Ahmed Yousry
Located in Culver City, CA
"Abstract Composition 4" Painting 10" x 14" inch by Ahmed Yousry Ahmed Yousry was born in Alexandria in 1993. In 2017, he graduated from the Faculty of Fine Arts at Alexandria Unive...
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Interior Paintings

Materials

Ink, Acrylic, Cardboard

Color in Black
Located in LAS ROZAS DE MADRID, ES
This painting evokes a mysterious and captivating atmosphere with a dark background that envelops the scene in intriguing shadow. The lines, skillfully drawn, traverse the compositio...
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Interior Paintings

Materials

Acrylic

Coffee&../ Picture / Collage / Recycled material / Signed
Located in Slovak Republic, SK
The picture is framed (wooden frame) and the idea behind is recycling of used objects of everyday life. Signed on the back by the author. Need to be adjusted to hang it on the wall a...
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Interior Paintings

Materials

Metal

Le Printemps gris
Located in PARIS, FR
Jacqueline Pavlowsky was born in 1921 in Vincennes to Russian and Polish Jewish parents who had immigrated to France. After the war, she started her studies of chemistry, while at th...
Category

1970s Abstract Interior Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Tempera

Untitled, Acrylic on Canvas, Blue, Red by Contemporary Indian Artist "In Stock"
Located in Kolkata, West Bengal
Amit Kalla - Untitled - 24 x 24 inches (unframed size) Acrylic on Canvas ** Free Shipment ...... will be delivered in rolled form. Style : Kalla’s work can be represented by his commitment to experimenting with social engagement through the arts. It is here his strength lies. Through his deep connection to a cultural expression of a universal spirituality and passionate sense of humanity Kalla, continuously draws people from all communities into acts of creativity in the belief that through creativity people are empowered and communities move incrementally closer to truth. His poetry and paintings are spiritually intuited. While his poems create a secretive world of words, where silence speaks his paintings are calligraphic and draw on the same silent unknowing of invented texts. His paintings represent moments on the continuum; a slice snatched from his deeper hidden journey. The strength of Kalla’s work is that it represents an Indian artist’s quest for an indigenous tenor rather than a superficial inventory of native motifs, there is nothing about his work which relies on a static Indian Identity. About the Artist & his work : Born : 1980 in Jaipur, Rajasthan. Education : 2005 - Masters in Art and Aesthetics from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi 2003 - Graduation in Art History, National Museum Institute specializing in ancient Indian art...
Category

2010s Abstract Interior Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Summer in Vernazza, Oil Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA

Artist Comments
Artist Faye Vander Veer depicts a warm summer day in the city of Vernazza, located in the Cinque Terre region of Italy. Crowds...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Interior Paintings

Materials

Oil

Imagine is Real 08
Located in LAS ROZAS DE MADRID, ES
In this work, I have poured my passion using acrylics to evoke depth and movement. Blues and whites intertwine, reflecting abstract emotions that flow freely, like ocean waves on a s...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Interior Paintings

Materials

Acrylic

Imagine is Real 07
Located in LAS ROZAS DE MADRID, ES
In this work, I have poured my passion using acrylics to evoke depth and movement. Blues and whites intertwine, reflecting abstract emotions that flow freely, like ocean waves on a s...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Interior Paintings

Materials

Acrylic

"Evolution 3" (FRAMED) Abstract Painting 34 x 45" inch by Yoram Katz
Located in Culver City, CA
"Evolution 3" (FRAMED) Abstract Painting 34 x 45" inch by Yoram Katz Medium: Pencil on Paper Size framed: 37 x 48 inch ABOUT THE ARTIST: Born in Israel. Graduated from the Bazelel ...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Interior Paintings

Materials

Paper, Pencil

Atelier 8, Abstract studio, Expressionism, Oil on canvas, French Contemporary
Located in LANGRUNE-SUR-MER, FR
Sophie Dumont's canvas, titled "Artist's Studio," is a visually captivating immersion into the creative universe of the artist. The deliberate choice of a palette in shades of gray, ...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Interior Paintings

Materials

Oil

River Seine in Paris, Fall, Oil Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA

Artist Comments
Artist Suren Nersisyan depicts the romantic cityscape of Paris. "I love the bridges of this city connecting the banks of the Seine river," shares Suren. He ca...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Interior Paintings

Materials

Oil

Shifting Light
Located in Deddington, GB
Shifting Light [2021] original Acrylic on stretched canvas Image size: H:80 cm x W:100 cm Complete Size of Unframed Work: H:80 cm x W:100 cm x D:4cm Sold Unframed Please note that i...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Interior Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

"Four Minutes and Thirty Three..." Painting 48 x 36 in by Tetiana Kalivoshko
Located in Culver City, CA
"Four Minutes and Thirty Three..." Painting 48 x 36 in by Tetiana Kalivoshko Full name: "Four Minutes and Thirty Three Seconds of Silence After MOAB" Tetiana Kalivoshko is an Ameri...
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Interior Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Stacker PC, Jeremy Morgan, Original Painting, Abstract Geometric Technology Art
Located in Deddington, GB
Stacker PC [2019] original acrylic on box-mounted MDF panels Image size: H:36 cm x W:23 cm Complete Size of Unframed Work: H:36 cm x W:23 cm x D:6cm Sold Unframed Please note th...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Interior Paintings

Materials

Acrylic, Panel

Garden, Abstract Expressionist Mid-Century Modern geometric work
Located in Beachwood, OH
Richard Andres (American, 1927-2013) Garden, 1972 acrylic on canvas signed, dated and titled verso 59.5 x 50 inches Richard Andres was born in Buffalo, New York in 1927. A graduate of the Cleveland Institute of Art in 1950, he was immediately drafted and served for two years in the army as a mural painter. He received his Master of Arts from Kent State in 1961. A frequent exhibitor at galleries and museums and winner of multiple May Show prizes, Andres taught art in the Cleveland Public Schools for 28 years, as well as teaching the University of Buffalo, the Cleveland Institute of Art and the Western Reserve University. Very little in Richard Andres’ childhood would have predicted his love of classical music, mid-century-modern architecture and certainly not his lifelong passion for art and in particular abstract art. Richard’s father, Raymond, had no more than a third-grade education, and his mother, Clara, was one of thirteen children – only three of whom lived into adulthood and none of whom attended high school. They lived, when Richard was a boy, in a dingy area of Buffalo, NY in a walk-up apartment situated above a tavern. Raymond and Clara supplemented the income from their factory jobs in the bar downstairs with Raymond playing ragtime on the piano and Clara serving drinks. This often left Richard and his two older brothers at home alone to fend for themselves. The two older boys, Raymond and Russell, were - unlike Richard- rather rough and tumble and entertained themselves with stickball, boxing and the like. Richard, on the other hand, from a very young age liked to draw, or better yet even, to paint with the small set of watercolors he received for Christmas one year. Paper, however, at the height of the depression, was hard to come by. Luckily, Clara used paper doilies as decoration for the apartment and Richard would contentedly paint and then cut up doilies, gluing the pieces together to create collages. At eight-years-old, he discovered the Albright-Knox Museum (then known as the Albright Art Gallery) and spent several hours a week there studying the paintings. He was particularly fond of Charles Burchfield‘s landscapes, enamored with their ‘messiness’ and thinking that they somehow captured more ‘feeling’ than works he was previously familiar with. For his tenth Christmas, he asked for and received a ‘how-to’ paint book by Elliot O’Hare. Through this self-teaching, he assembled the portfolio needed for acceptance to Buffalo Technical High School where he studied Advertising Arts. In his Junior year, he was encouraged to enter a watercolor painting, “Two Barns,” in the national 1944-45 Ingersoll Art Award Contest and was one of twelve grand prize winners – each one winning one hundred dollars. More importantly the painting was exhibited at the Carnegie Institute Galleries, which resulted in his winning a national scholarship to the Cleveland School of Art (The Cleveland Art Institute). He flourished at the art school under the tutelage of faculty members such as Carl Gaertner, as well as that of visiting artists such as William Sommer and Henry George Keller. He would say in later years that Gaertner, in particular, influenced his attitude toward life as well as art. “Gaertner,” Andres said, “believed that there was no need to be a ‘tortured artist’, that an artist should rather enjoy beauty, family, and life in general.” Free to spend his days as he chose, he wandered the Cleveland Art Museum for most of the hours he was not attending classes or painting; the remaining time was spent drinking coffee at a local hangout with art school friends – which is where he met fellow Henry Keller scholarship winner, Avis Johnson. Richard was immediately smitten with Avis, but being rather shy, it took him the entire summer of 1948 to build up his courage to ask her out. Over that summer he ‘thought about Avis’ and worked in a diner to save money. He also used the hundred-dollar prize money won in High School to visit the first Max Beckmann retrospective in the United States at the City Art Museum in St. Louis. Over a half century later he spoke of that exhibit with a reverence usually reserved for spiritual matters, “I walked in and it was like nothing I had ever seen before... the color...It just glowed.” Returning to campus in the Fall, the first thing he did was go to the coffee shop in hopes of finding Avis. He did, and she, upon seeing him, realized that she was also smitten with him. They quickly became known as ‘the couple’ on campus, and a year later, with Richard being drafted for the Korean war, they were quickly married by a Justice of the Peace, celebrating after with family at Avis’s Cleveland home. As a gift, faculty member John Paul Miller...
Category

1970s Abstract Interior Paintings

Materials

Acrylic

"Nile Delta II" Abstract Mixed Media Painting 96" x 48" inch by Ibrahim Khatab
Located in Culver City, CA
"Nile Delta II" Abstract Mixed Media Painting 96" x 48" inch by Ibrahim Khatab Ibrahim Khatab was born in Cairo 1984, works as a co-teacher in Cairo University, he mixes between pai...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Interior Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Wood, Mixed Media, Acrylic

Smithsonian Castle in Washington DC, Noon, Oil Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA

Artist Comments
The Smithsonian Castle in Washington, DC on a bright summer afternoon. The brilliant green lawn and trees in the foreground ...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Interior Paintings

Materials

Oil

Evening Stroll in Italy (Passeggiata), Original Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA

Artist Comments
Evening in an italian town. The title "Passeggiata" refers to a leisurely stroll often taken after dinner where friends meet up on the street. Dramatic lighti...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Interior Paintings

Materials

Acrylic

Luck And Faith, Oil Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA

Artist Comments
Artist Onelio Marrero depicts a mother and her child dropping coins into a fountain for good luck. The quiet moment is painted in brilliant morning light with dappled shadows in the foreground. Behind them lies a verdant backdrop of foliage around a stone church and a view of the distant city beyond. Onelio's rich textures and detailed brushwork greatly enhances the piece. "The separating line between the church and the fountain reminds us of the demarcation between faith and luck," says Onelio.


About the Artist
Onelio Marrero paints city scenes of everyday life. In an impressionistic style he captures the romanticism of New York City, the picturesque fountains in Central Park and the wet city streets after a rainy afternoon. His use of warm tones creates a sense of nostalgia and the feeling that you have visited or seen this particular scene before. Onelio will often paint from direct observation, or he will work from a combination of photographs and combine numerous sources into one piece. In this way his work combines reality with fantasy, creating a new story with each painting. His work captures an appreciation for beauty in all of its greatest forms; nature, art, and people.


Words that describe this painting: fountain, church, plaza, spring, stonework, architecture...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Interior Paintings

Materials

Oil

"Not Fa Si La" abstract, spray varnish pigments on wood 142x72cm
Located in Saint Pol de Léon, Bretagne
The play with light recomposes this plateau to infinity, the layers cut and cross creating the furrow of this city in duality. The greys turn into purple by iridescence to give more...
Category

2010s Abstract Interior Paintings

Materials

Varnish, Mixed Media, Pigment, Other Medium

Green Library, Abstract , Geometric, Textured, Oil, French Expressionism
Located in LANGRUNE-SUR-MER, FR
The painting "Bibliothèque Verte," measuring 130x97 cm (51.18x38.19 inches), is a captivating exploration of structure and abstraction. At first glance, the vertical and horizontal a...
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Interior Paintings

Materials

Oil

Library, Semi Abstract Literary Artwork, Abstract Painting, Bright Colourful Art
Located in Deddington, GB
Layers of stripes inspired by bookshelves. The colours and patterns repeat throughout the composition. Rosie Shorrock, painter, is available for sale online and in our art gallery at...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Interior Paintings

Materials

Acrylic, Panel

"Coveted spheres" abstract acrylic collage 50x50cm 2022
Located in Saint Pol de Léon, Bretagne
"Coveted spheres" abstract acrylic collage 50x50cm 2022 the moon and the earth are reduced to objects that we covet and want to appropriate I worked as if it were porcelain objects...
Category

2010s Abstract Interior Paintings

Materials

Marble, Sandstone

LAVAGNA - Italian abstract oil on canvas painting, Massimo D'Orta
Located in Napoli, IT
Lavagna - Massimo D'Orta Italia - Oil on canvas mis. cm. 100x80. Massimo D'Orta born in Naples in 1950 where he currently lives and works. Atypical character in contemporary art: man...
Category

2010s Abstract Interior Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Sunny and Clear, Original Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA

Artist Comments
Artist Catherine McCargar paints a classic white house perched on top of a hill. Lush greenery circles the delightful scene. She depicts serene surroundings r...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Interior Paintings

Materials

Acrylic

Departures and Arrivals, Oil Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA

Artist Comments
Onelio lives near Manhattan and travels there often. Grand Central Station is one of his frequent stops. "It is a marvelous interior space that bustles with c...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Interior Paintings

Materials

Oil

“City Bloom” 2025, Original Art, Fun, Happy, Textures, Soft Tones, Gold Accent
Located in Woodstock, GA
“City Bloom” bursts with life, energy, and unapologetic vibrance. This piece radiates a dynamic harmony of teal, cobalt teal, yellows and gold—invigorating and captivating like new ...
Category

2010s Abstract Interior Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Soothing aroma of Mint and Sage. Herbal Original oil painting on canvas
Located in Zofingen, AG
This original painting from collection «Unity with Nature» in which the theme of herbal spirits helping us to remain in harmony with nature speaks on a symbolic level about the re...
Category

2010s Abstract Interior Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Chromatic Movement 01
Located in LAS ROZAS DE MADRID, ES
This painting evokes a mysterious and captivating atmosphere with a dark background that envelops the scene in intriguing shadow. The lines, skillfully drawn, traverse the compositio...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Interior Paintings

Materials

Acrylic

Where Do We Go from Here, Oil Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA

Artist Comments
While visiting Paris a few years ago, Faye was inspired by the way the late afternoon sunlight cast its long shadows across this busy street corner. "The warm...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Interior Paintings

Materials

Oil

Cape May Porch: Angel of The Sea, Oil Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA

Artist Comments
An open porch welcomes the morning breeze and the warm sunrise. Artist Onelio Marrero recreates the setting from a bed and breakfast inn called "Angel of The Sea" in Cape May...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Interior Paintings

Materials

Oil

Formalities, Abstract Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA

Artist Comments
Inspired by English artist Keith Vaughan’s landscapes, this artwork reimagines a house with simplified colors and textures. While it doesn't follow cubism i...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Interior Paintings

Materials

Acrylic

Magic Garden, vibrant mid-century abstract expressionist colorful geometric work
Located in Beachwood, OH
Richard Andres (American, 1927-2013) Magic Garden, c. 1962 oil on canvas signed lower left, signed and titled verso 50 x 42 inches Richard Andres was born in Buffalo, New York in 19...
Category

1960s Abstract Interior Paintings

Materials

Oil

Coastal Blue Pink Abstract Acrylic Painting on Canvas The Song of Blue Water
Located in Sherman Oaks, CA
Blue Pink Abstract Acrylic Painting on Canvas 42H X 68"W The Song of Blue Water SPECIFICATIONS: - Artist-grade canvas. - 1" deep wooden support bars - Gallery Stretching & Wrap Expre...
Category

2010s Abstract Interior Paintings

Materials

Acrylic

Abstract Radiance
Located in LAS ROZAS DE MADRID, ES
Shipped rolled in a tube without frame This painting evokes a mysterious and captivating atmosphere with a dark background that envelops the scene in intriguing shadow. The lines, s...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Interior Paintings

Materials

Acrylic

Provence VI
Located in San Francisco, CA

Artist Comments
I spent time in beautiful Provence this summer. Its serene countryside, ancient villages, and the glorious booming lavender fields all inspired this painting....

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Interior Paintings

Materials

Acrylic

Love Love 04
Located in LAS ROZAS DE MADRID, ES
A painting in abstract enamel is an explosion of shapes, textures, and colors that invite personal interpretation. Across the canvas, dynamic and free brushstrokes intertwine, creati...
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Interior Paintings

Materials

Enamel

House in Winter, Oil Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA

Artist Comments
"The winter season highlights the houses and farms by accenting everything with snow," says artist Brian McCarty. Amongst the crisp winter landscape, a three-story barn stands prominently. A trail makes its way towards the edge of the structure's door and continues to carve its path to an unseen destination. "The reds on country barns become that much more colorful when surrounded by snow."


About the Artist


Words that describe this painting: country, country life, farm, farmhouse, rural, barn, building, architecture, windows, door, winter, snow, trees...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Interior Paintings

Materials

Oil

Frederick, Maryland Farm, Oil Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA

Artist Comments
A scene from heritage dairy and traditional crop farms located north of Frederick, Maryland. Artist Doug Cosbie painted the structures in oil, based on a plei...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Interior Paintings

Materials

Oil

“Siéntese usted”. Street Art, graffiti, bright colors, Gestural Abstraction
Located in MADRID, ES
Street Art, graffiti, bright colors, Gestural Abstraction
Category

2010s Abstract Interior Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil Crayon, Oil Pastel, Acrylic

Spring Glow
Located in LAS ROZAS DE MADRID, ES
"Spring Glow" is an abstract work that captures the vibrant and refreshing essence of spring. Green and white tones intertwine in a harmonious dance of light and color, evoking the r...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Interior Paintings

Materials

Acrylic

"Layers of mists" abstract acrylic paint on linen panel 90x90cm 2022
Located in Saint Pol de Léon, Bretagne
"Layers of mists" abstract acrylic paint on linen panel 90x90cm 2022 I often think of Japanese screens and I really like the scanning of triptychs. I wanted to suggest a poetic atmo...
Category

2010s Abstract Interior Paintings

Materials

Marble

Shore V, large colorful red, black & blue mid-century abstract expressionist
Located in Beachwood, OH
Richard Andres (American, 1927-2013) Shore V, c. 1964 acrylic on canvas signed lower right, signed and titled verso 54 x 44 inches Richard Andres was born in Buffalo, New York in 1927. A graduate of the Cleveland Institute of Art in 1950, he was immediately drafted and served for two years in the army as a mural painter. He received his Master of Arts from Kent State in 1961. A frequent exhibitor at galleries and museums and winner of multiple May Show prizes, Andres taught art in the Cleveland Public Schools for 28 years, as well as teaching the University of Buffalo, the Cleveland Institute of Art and the Western Reserve University. Very little in Richard Andres’ childhood would have predicted his love of classical music, mid-century-modern architecture and certainly not his lifelong passion for art and in particular abstract art. Richard’s father, Raymond, had no more than a third-grade education, and his mother, Clara, was one of thirteen children – only three of whom lived into adulthood and none of whom attended high school. They lived, when Richard was a boy, in a dingy area of Buffalo, NY in a walk-up apartment situated above a tavern. Raymond and Clara supplemented the income from their factory jobs in the bar downstairs with Raymond playing ragtime on the piano and Clara serving drinks. This often left Richard and his two older brothers at home alone to fend for themselves. The two older boys, Raymond and Russell, were - unlike Richard- rather rough and tumble and entertained themselves with stickball, boxing and the like. Richard, on the other hand, from a very young age liked to draw, or better yet even, to paint with the small set of watercolors he received for Christmas one year. Paper, however, at the height of the depression, was hard to come by. Luckily, Clara used paper doilies as decoration for the apartment and Richard would contentedly paint and then cut up doilies, gluing the pieces together to create collages. At eight-years-old, he discovered the Albright-Knox Museum (then known as the Albright Art Gallery) and spent several hours a week there studying the paintings. He was particularly fond of Charles Burchfield‘s landscapes, enamored with their ‘messiness’ and thinking that they somehow captured more ‘feeling’ than works he was previously familiar with. For his tenth Christmas, he asked for and received a ‘how-to’ paint book by Elliot O’Hare. Through this self-teaching, he assembled the portfolio needed for acceptance to Buffalo Technical High School where he studied Advertising Arts. In his Junior year, he was encouraged to enter a watercolor painting, “Two Barns,” in the national 1944-45 Ingersoll Art Award Contest and was one of twelve grand prize winners – each one winning one hundred dollars. More importantly the painting was exhibited at the Carnegie Institute Galleries, which resulted in his winning a national scholarship to the Cleveland School of Art (The Cleveland Art Institute). He flourished at the art school under the tutelage of faculty members such as Carl Gaertner, as well as that of visiting artists such as William Sommer and Henry George Keller. He would say in later years that Gaertner, in particular, influenced his attitude toward life as well as art. “Gaertner,” Andres said, “believed that there was no need to be a ‘tortured artist’, that an artist should rather enjoy beauty, family, and life in general.” Free to spend his days as he chose, he wandered the Cleveland Art Museum for most of the hours he was not attending classes or painting; the remaining time was spent drinking coffee at a local hangout with art school friends – which is where he met fellow Henry Keller scholarship winner, Avis Johnson. Richard was immediately smitten with Avis, but being rather shy, it took him the entire summer of 1948 to build up his courage to ask her out. Over that summer he ‘thought about Avis’ and worked in a diner to save money. He also used the hundred-dollar prize money won in High School to visit the first Max Beckmann retrospective in the United States at the City Art Museum in St. Louis. Over a half century later he spoke of that exhibit with a reverence usually reserved for spiritual matters, “I walked in and it was like nothing I had ever seen before... the color...It just glowed.” Returning to campus in the Fall, the first thing he did was go to the coffee shop in hopes of finding Avis. He did, and she, upon seeing him, realized that she was also smitten with him. They quickly became known as ‘the couple’ on campus, and a year later, with Richard being drafted for the Korean war, they were quickly married by a Justice of the Peace, celebrating after with family at Avis’s Cleveland home. As a gift, faculty member John Paul Miller...
Category

1960s Abstract Interior Paintings

Materials

Acrylic

Fibonacci 410
Located in Burlingame, CA
Navy blue to light blue, with white, cream, and touches of yellow, are celebrated in this abstract geometric mixed media painting with acrylic, ink, polymers and layers of complex an...
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Interior Paintings

Materials

Acrylic Polymer, Acrylic, Panel

Ocean coast, horizon
Located in Vienna, AT
Size: 40 cm x 80 cm Year: 2024 Media: acrylic on canvas This painting fits well into a spacious room with a minimalist modern interior, in a study, in a living room, in a beauty sal...
Category

2010s Abstract Interior Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Cotton Canvas, Mixed Media, Oil, Spray Paint, Acrylic

"Elegance of trees in winter" landscape painting acrylic linen canvas 92x65cm
Located in Saint Pol de Léon, Bretagne
"Elegance of trees in winter" landscape painting modeling paste on canvas linen 92x65cm turquoise send in wooden crate at cost happiness, lightness of yellow, a moment of joy the ...
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2010s Abstract Interior Paintings

Materials

Sandstone

"Djinn quintupled" abstract acrylic on canvas 207x148cm 2023
Located in Saint Pol de Léon, Bretagne
In this abstract painting, Pierre Morquin explores the notion of the afterlife. The five geometric shapes occupying the center of the canvas evoke djinns, supernatural creatures from...
Category

2010s Abstract Interior Paintings

Materials

Charcoal, Acrylic, Mixed Media

Memories of Summer
Located in Deddington, GB
Memories Of Summer By Lucy Moore [2021] original Acrylic on canvas Image size: H:76 cm x W:76 cm Complete Size of Unframed Work: H:76 cm x W:76 cm x D:76cm Sold Unframed Please note...
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Interior Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

"Explosion Mandala" 24" x 24" inch by Tetiana Kalivoshko
Located in Culver City, CA
"Explosion Mandala" 24" x 24" inch by Tetiana Kalivoshko Mixed media collage THE SPRING WAR COLLECTION Finding light and hope during time of war and despair is the message Tetiana...
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Interior Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Mixed Media

"Breath Mandala #5" 16" x 16" inch by Tetiana Kalivoshko
Located in Culver City, CA
"Breath Mandala #5" 16" x 16" inch by Tetiana Kalivoshko Mixed media collage THE SPRING WAR COLLECTION Finding light and hope during time of war and despair is the message Tetiana...
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Interior Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Mixed Media

Kiss my Heart
Located in LAS ROZAS DE MADRID, ES
The dance of colors generates a scene of great beauty. The strength of the movement and the shapes created with its colors convey a dream towards realities that touch the deepest fee...
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Interior Paintings

Materials

Oil, Acrylic

There Is A Light That Never Goes Out with Acrylic, Painting by Lucy Moore
Located in Deddington, GB
There Is A Light That Never Goes Out By Lucy Moore [2023] There Is A Light That Never Goes Out- An Original semi-abstract painting by Lucy Moore I really like the contrast of the mo...
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Interior Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

"In imbalance world" acrylic linen canvas 120x100cm 2020
Located in Saint Pol de Léon, Bretagne
abstract acrylic collage marble powder on canvas linen beige white grey send in wooden crate at cost Second confinement, the slaughter of a teacher: a sense of a world that is losing its bearings, saturated with narcissism and intolerance, like a return to a society that no longer knows how it will manage. emmanuelle vroelant...
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2010s Abstract Interior Paintings

Materials

Marble

Seeing Beyond, Natural Abstract Artwork, Colourfield Painting, Muted Art
Located in Deddington, GB
A oil painting on linen that was inspired by the changing seasons. In this piece the paint has been thinned so it creates soft pools of colours and shapes. Professionally framed in a...
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2010s Abstract Interior Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Linen, Oil

Purple Jewel Jackson Pollock Inspired gestural Abstraction Painting on Canvas
Located in Sherman Oaks, CA
Purple Jewel Jackson Pollock Inspired Abstract Painting on Canvas 36x48" *Acrylic, 3D Paint on Stretched Canvas This is original abstract mixed media work, which combines acrylic, ...
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2010s Abstract Interior Paintings

Materials

Acrylic

"Mists" abstract, spray varnish pigments on wood 120x240cm
Located in Saint Pol de Léon, Bretagne
The intensity of the colors varies with the light, city awakens with the first lights of the day. Worked in successive layers like a lacquer, the interpretation of the background and...
Category

2010s Abstract Interior Paintings

Materials

Varnish, Mixed Media, Pigment, Other Medium

"The map and the territory" abstract painting acrylic on canvas 162x130cm 2021
Located in Saint Pol de Léon, Bretagne
In this abstract painting, Pierre Morquin pays tribute to Aboriginal art. The bright, contrasting colours and simple, repeated geometric shapes create an impression of movement and d...
Category

2010s Abstract Interior Paintings

Materials

Spray Paint, Acrylic

Abstract interior paintings for sale on 1stDibs.

Find a wide variety of authentic Abstract interior 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 interior 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, red, green and other colors. Many Pop art paintings were created by popular artists on 1stDibs, including Iryna Kastsova, Juan Jose Garay, Amit Kalla, and Irena Orlov. Frequently made by artists working with Paint, and Acrylic 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 interior paintings, so small editions measuring 4 inches across are also available. Prices for interior paintings made by famous or emerging artists can differ depending on medium, time period and other attributes. On 1stDibs, the price for these items starts at $1 and tops out at $1,585,485, while the average work sells for $2,192.

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