Abstract Landscape 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 Landscape Paintings
Canvas, Acrylic
2010s Abstract Landscape Paintings
Archival Pigment
2010s Abstract Landscape Paintings
Canvas, Cotton Canvas, Mixed Media, Oil, Spray Paint, Acrylic
Late 20th Century Abstract Landscape Paintings
Canvas, Paper, Oil
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Canvas, Acrylic
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Metal
2010s Abstract Landscape Paintings
Canvas, Linen, Spray Paint, Acrylic
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Canvas, Oil
2010s Abstract Landscape Paintings
Canvas, Paint, Cotton Canvas, Oil
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Canvas, Plastic, Foam, Acrylic
2010s Abstract Landscape Paintings
Canvas, Acrylic
1940s Abstract Landscape Paintings
Oil, Board
1980s Abstract Landscape Paintings
Canvas, Oil
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Landscape Paintings
Canvas, Mixed Media
2010s Abstract Landscape Paintings
Mixed Media, Paper
2010s Abstract Landscape Paintings
Paper, Acrylic, Watercolor
2010s Abstract Landscape Paintings
Canvas, Acrylic
2010s Abstract Landscape Paintings
Gesso, Canvas, Oil, Acrylic, Wood Panel
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Landscape Paintings
Canvas, Mixed Media
Artist Comments
Soft colors shape a nonrepresentational landscape, where clouds drift gently above a green field. Black paint peeks through layered hues, and fine scratches cre...
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Landscape Paintings
Oil
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Landscape Paintings
Acrylic
2010s Abstract Landscape Paintings
Canvas, Acrylic
1980s Abstract Landscape Paintings
Canvas, Oil
2010s Abstract Landscape Paintings
Metal
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Landscape Paintings
Oil, Canvas
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Landscape Paintings
Canvas, Oil
2010s Abstract Landscape Paintings
Canvas, Acrylic
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Landscape Paintings
Canvas, Oil
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Landscape Paintings
Canvas, Oil
2010s Abstract Landscape Paintings
Clay, Acrylic
1960s Abstract Landscape Paintings
Canvas, Oil
2010s Abstract Landscape Paintings
Canvas, Acrylic
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Landscape Paintings
Canvas, Mixed Media
1960s Abstract Landscape Paintings
Watercolor
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Landscape Paintings
Canvas, Oil
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Landscape Paintings
Canvas, Oil
2010s Abstract Landscape Paintings
Oil, Canvas
2010s Abstract Landscape Paintings
Canvas, Oil
2010s Abstract Landscape Paintings
Canvas, Acrylic
Artist Comments
Building up many layers of color in oil paint and cold wax medium, Valerie then used scrapers to reveal the tree trunks in an abstract landscape. Warm orange and yellow trees standing in front of a cool blue and green background. Heavy texture complements the expressionist palette. The piece is part of a series of three works. Although Valerie did not create them as triptych, the three hang well close together.
About the Artist
Valerie Berkely uses her finger tips as brushes to create her abstract paintings. For Valerie, the art is all about the process, the paint, her mood, and the moment. She admires the artist Wolf Kahn, who once said, “the picture is the conclusion of an experiment in which the hint of an image becomes actuality." Like Kahn, Valerie’s paintings combine pictorial landscapes with painterly abstraction. The vibrant primary colors capture the hues of the sun rising and setting, and the texture of her fingers across the surface divides sea, land, and sky. There is something very dreamy about these works, exemplified by their color, texture, and atmospheric quality. Valerie’s first “art epiphany” was seeing Seurat's La Grande Jatte at the Art Institute of Chicago. “Bowled me over! I actually fell down. And I knew I was to become a painter.”
Words that describe this painting: woods, forest, trees, nature, expressionism, nature, non-representational, oil painting, blue
Bare Trees...
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Landscape Paintings
Oil
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Landscape Paintings
Canvas, Mixed Media
2010s Abstract Landscape Paintings
Resin, Cotton Canvas, Pigment
2010s Abstract Landscape Paintings
Canvas, Oil
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Canvas, Acrylic
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Metal
2010s Abstract Landscape Paintings
Cotton Canvas, Spray Paint, Acrylic, Ceramic
2010s Abstract Landscape Paintings
Canvas, Oil
2010s Abstract Landscape Paintings
Gesso, Oil, Acrylic
2010s Abstract Landscape Paintings
Wood, Oil, Board
2010s Abstract Landscape Paintings
Acrylic
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Landscape Paintings
Oil
2010s Abstract Landscape Paintings
Paper, Watercolor
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Landscape Paintings
Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Landscape Paintings
Oil
Early 20th Century Abstract Landscape Paintings
Watercolor, Rag Paper, Pencil
2010s Abstract Landscape Paintings
Acrylic, Paper
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Landscape Paintings
Canvas, Mixed Media
Early 20th Century Abstract Landscape Paintings
Watercolor, Rag Paper, Pencil
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Landscape Paintings
Acrylic, Cardboard
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Landscape Paintings
Canvas, Oil