Abstract Interior Paintings
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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2010s Abstract Interior Paintings
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2010s Abstract Interior Paintings
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Interior Paintings
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Late 20th Century Abstract Interior Paintings
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Artist Comments
Artist Faye Vander Veer depicts a small group of people gathered around the statue of Venus at the Louvre in Paris. Sunlight s...
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Interior Paintings
Oil
Mid-20th Century Abstract Interior Paintings
Paper, Acrylic
2010s Abstract Interior Paintings
Acrylic
2010s Abstract Interior Paintings
Oil
2010s Abstract Interior Paintings
Canvas, Linen, Spray Paint, Acrylic
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2010s Abstract Interior Paintings
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2010s Abstract Interior Paintings
Canvas, Varnish, Acrylic
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Interior Paintings
Oil
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Resin, Mixed Media, Acrylic
2010s Abstract Interior Paintings
Canvas, Oil
2010s Abstract Interior Paintings
Oil
2010s Abstract Interior Paintings
Canvas, Acrylic
2010s Abstract Interior Paintings
Varnish, Spray Paint, Acrylic
2010s Abstract Interior Paintings
Cotton Canvas, Oil
2010s Abstract Interior Paintings
Spray Paint, Acrylic
2010s Abstract Interior Paintings
Acrylic
2010s Abstract Interior Paintings
Spray Paint, Acrylic
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Interior Paintings
Cotton Canvas, Oil
Artist Comments
In New York at the entrance of Central Park at Columbus Circle, there is a monument that many people use as a meeting place. On...
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Interior Paintings
Oil
2010s Abstract Interior Paintings
Paper, Mixed Media
2010s Abstract Interior Paintings
Acrylic
2010s Abstract Interior Paintings
Acrylic, Canvas
1980s Abstract Interior Paintings
Oil
2010s Abstract Interior Paintings
Canvas, Oil
2010s Abstract Interior Paintings
Canvas, Varnish, Acrylic
2010s Abstract Interior Paintings
Spray Paint, Acrylic
Late 20th Century Abstract Interior Paintings
Oil
2010s Abstract Interior Paintings
Acrylic
2010s Abstract Interior Paintings
Varnish, Spray Paint, Acrylic
2010s Abstract Interior Paintings
Acrylic
2010s Abstract Interior Paintings
Acrylic, Canvas
1980s Abstract Interior Paintings
Cotton Canvas, Oil
2010s Abstract Interior Paintings
Oil, Cardboard
2010s Abstract Interior Paintings
Acrylic
Artist Comments
Artist Faye Vander Veer depicts a cozy rainy evening in the city. "You can almost hear the sound of the tires as the traffic moves along the wet pavement," says Faye. Drizzly street scenes are among her favorite subjects to portray. She paints reflected headlights and other ambient lighting to give a feeling of warmth and calm.
About the Artist
Artist Faye Vander Veer seeks out moments with engaging narratives and captures them with an impressionist style. Her dramatic use of color, texture, light and shadow lend a glowing quality, creating an energy all their own. While using her own photographs as a general reference, it is her sensory memory of the event and her emotional reaction that is conveyed on the canvas, causing the viewer to be transported to another time and place. “Painting becomes a language I use to express my emotional response to what is before me and share my experience of the subject with others,“ says Faye.
Words that describe this painting: impressionism, cityscape, city, San Francisco, architecture, nocturne, rain, cars, pedestrians, buildings, lights, Mark League, street, road, facade, evening, cab, taxi, street light, oilpaint, reflection, travel, architecture, impressionism, travel, oil painting, blue
Evening Rain...
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Interior Paintings
Oil
2010s Abstract Interior Paintings
Acrylic
2010s Abstract Interior Paintings
Oil
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Interior Paintings
Canvas, Oil
1950s Abstract Interior Paintings
Canvas, Oil
2010s Abstract Interior Paintings
Oil, Acrylic
2010s Abstract Interior Paintings
Canvas, Oil, Acrylic
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Interior Paintings
Canvas, Acrylic
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Interior Paintings
Enamel
2010s Abstract Interior Paintings
Acrylic
2010s Abstract Interior Paintings
Spray Paint, Acrylic
2010s Abstract Interior Paintings
Varnish, Acrylic
1960s Abstract Interior Paintings
Canvas, Oil
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Interior Paintings
Enamel
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Interior Paintings
Acrylic, Handmade Paper
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Interior Paintings
Canvas, Oil
2010s Abstract Interior Paintings
Varnish, Mixed Media, Pigment, Other Medium
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Interior Paintings
Enamel
2010s Abstract Interior Paintings
Canvas, Linen, Spray Paint, Acrylic
2010s Abstract Interior Paintings
Acrylic
2010s Abstract Interior Paintings
Acrylic