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Abstract Still-life 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
Séptico II, Mixed media Abstract painting on canvas
Located in Miami Beach, FL
DNA is genetic information, hidden and encrypted in body fluids. Veiled data that we load, that we do not know and that someone knows how to decipher. Such specifications characteriz...
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2010s Abstract Still-life Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil Pastel, Acrylic

Foxtrot Bravo - Original Landscape Plane Flying Painting
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Kathleen Keifer is a California-based internationally collected artist. She is a leading force of the New California Realism. Kathleen brings a fresh, clean perspective to her colorf...
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Still-life Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Aguas Claras. Mixed media Abstract painting on Canvas
Located in Miami Beach, FL
" The work resists framing in concepts, it overflows the contours and borders of the rational. It is through the presence of color, combined with an abstraction at times with express...
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2010s Abstract Still-life Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic, Pastel

Tulips in a vase #4 Oil on cardboard, 48 x 39 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Tulips in a vase #4. Oil on cardboard, 48 x 39 cm Aleksandr Rodin (1922-2001) Painter Born in a family of farmers. Wife Rasma Lace - art scholar. Studied at the Stalingrad School o...
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1980s Abstract Still-life Paintings

Materials

Oil, Cardboard

Waves and Particles. Abstract painting, Acrylic paint on canvas
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Waves and Particles, 2021 by Yunior Manino Acrylic paint on canvas Image size: 170 cm H X 192 cm W Unframed Signed by artist _______ Yunior Marino c...
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2010s Abstract Still-life Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic, Paint

Mantra. Wave. Abstract painting, Acrylic paint on canvas
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Mantra (Wave), 2017 by Yunior Manino Acrylic paint on canvas Image size: 152 cm H X 184 cm W Unframed Signed by artist _______ Yunior Marino completed his studies at the Institu...
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2010s Abstract Still-life Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

French Expressionist Abstract 20th Century Oil Painting Blaze of Colors
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Abstract Expressionist composition by Andre Guillou (French 1925-2017) signed oil on board stuck on board, mounted mount: 25.5 x 19.75 inches board: 22 x 16 inches provenance: the ar...
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Mid-20th Century Abstract Still-life Paintings

Materials

Oil

Cápsula #6. Mixed media Abstract painting on Canvas
Located in Miami Beach, FL
DNA is genetic information, hidden and encrypted in body fluids. Veiled data that we load, that we do not know and that someone knows how to decipher. Such specifications characteriz...
Category

2010s Abstract Still-life Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

English Abstract Painting - Modern Grass
By Spe
Located in Houston, TX
Modern abstract painting of grass and leaves in reds and gray by artist Spe, 2013. Signed lower right. Original artwork on paper displayed on a white mat with a gold border. Mat f...
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2010s Abstract Still-life Paintings

Materials

Paper, Acrylic

French Expressionist Abstract 20th Century Oil Painting Blaze of Colors
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Abstract Expressionist composition by Andre Guillou (French 1925-2017) oil on board stuck on board, mounted mount: 25.5 x 19.75 inches board: 19 x 13 inches provenance: the artists ...
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Mid-20th Century Abstract Still-life Paintings

Materials

Oil

Biodec. Mixed media Abstract painting on Canvas
Located in Miami Beach, FL
" The work resists framing in concepts, it overflows the contours and borders of the rational. It is through the presence of color, combined with an abstraction at times with express...
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2010s Abstract Still-life Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

The Light 13, Still life oil con canvas Painting
Located in Miami Beach, FL
This series of pieces is the result of an investigation into the use of light as a tool for the representation of reality and image creation. Starting in the 40s, the work of the art...
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2010s Abstract Still-life Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

English Abstract Painting - Modern Grass
By Spe
Located in Houston, TX
Modern abstract painting of grass and leaves in browns and reds by artist Spe, 2013. Signed lower right. Original artwork on paper displayed on a white mat with a gold border. Mat...
Category

2010s Abstract Still-life Paintings

Materials

Paper, Acrylic

French Expressionist Abstract 20th Century Oil Painting Blaze of Colors
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Abstract Expressionist composition by Andre Guillou (French 1925-2017) oil on board board: 25.5 x 19.75 inches provenance: the artists estate, France condition: very good and sound c...
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Mid-20th Century Abstract Still-life Paintings

Materials

Oil

Huimin Wang Impressionist Original Oil On Canvas "Lotus"
Located in New York, NY
Title: Lotus Medium: Oil on canvas Size: 23 x 19 inches Frame: Framing options available! Condition: The painting appears to be in excellent condition. Note: This painting is u...
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Still-life Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

English Abstract Painting - Modern Grass
By Spe
Located in Houston, TX
Modern abstract painting of grass and leaves in browns, grays, and reds by artist Spe, 2013. Signed lower right. Original artwork on paper displayed on a white mat with a gold bor...
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2010s Abstract Still-life Paintings

Materials

Paper, Acrylic

Summer Fruit Still-Life with Cherries, Peaches & Pineapple - After H. Raymond
Located in Soquel, CA
Summer Fruit Still-Life with Cherries, Peaches & Pineapple - After H. Raymond A lovely still-life featuring an opulent display of abundant summer fruit by an unknown artist, after H...
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Mid-20th Century Abstract Still-life Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Masonite, Oil

Stoop, Ziggurat Series, Abstract Geometric Painting
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Robert Petrick’s ’Stoop' is a fusion of meticulous geometry and bold abstract expression. From the artist’s ’Ziggurat Series' series, this piece is both timeless and contemporary, of...
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Still-life Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

English Abstract Painting - Modern Grass
By Spe
Located in Houston, TX
Modern abstract painting of grass and leaves by artist Spe, 2013. Signed lower right. Original artwork on paper displayed on a white mat with a go...
Category

2010s Abstract Still-life Paintings

Materials

Paper, Acrylic

English Abstract Painting - Modern Grass
By Spe
Located in Houston, TX
Modern abstract painting of grass and leaves by artist Spe, 2013. Signed lower right. Original artwork on paper displayed on a white mat with a go...
Category

2010s Abstract Still-life Paintings

Materials

Paper, Acrylic

Circuito #1. Mixed media Abstract painting on canvas
Located in Miami Beach, FL
"The work explores the interconnection between organic nature and circuits, reflecting the relationships between human beings. On the canvas, organic shapes are displayed that evoke ...
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2010s Abstract Still-life Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Passion litteraire, Oil, Black Red Abstract; Library, Contempory Art, Minimalism
Located in LANGRUNE-SUR-MER, FR
The painting "Literary Passion" by Sophie Dumont invites the viewer into a world where the apparent simplicity of the scene conceals a deep emotional complexity. The artwork, measuring 80x80 cm, features a black, dark, and imposing bookshelf that dominates most of the space. This deliberate choice creates an atmosphere of mystery and introspection. At the heart of this bookshelf, three red books stand...
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Still-life Paintings

Materials

Oil

Monkey Around-original surreal- realism still life oil painting-contemporary Art
Located in London, Chelsea
This exceptional artwork is currently on display and available for sale at Signet Contemporary Art Gallery and online. "Monkey Around" is a delightful still life painting by the gif...
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Still-life Paintings

Materials

Oil, Board

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 Still-life Paintings

Materials

Oil, Panel

Honeysuckle, Abstract Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA

Artist Comments
Honeysuckles entice with their delicate white and creamy yellow petals with hints of pink. Their soft, summer colors pop against the lush green background. Th...

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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Still-life Paintings

Materials

Acrylic

Composition in Blue, Oil Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA

Artist Comments
Artist Lisa Nielsen captures a cool and soft atmosphere in this still-life piece. She expresses freedom to experiment with the arrangement of elements by adding glasses, teacups, and ribbons. Lisa infuses shades of blue throughout the entire composition. She adds subtle contrasts of color for easiness to the eyes.


About the Artist
There;s a certain innocent joy that comes through in Lisa Nielsen;s artwork. She finds beauty in the everyday and often ordinary, whether it;s painting a pretty girl in the garden or spending time with her daughter at Chipotle - and let;s face it, what isn;t beautiful about a burrito bowl? Lisa likes to say she captures moments in the journey of life. What we see in her art is all part of her life philosophy: to be still, to breathe, to exhaust the small moment.


Words that describe this painting: still life, cool, soft, glass, flowers, ribbon, teacup, small, rose, impressionism, impressionism, still life, oil painting


Composition in Blue...

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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Still-life Paintings

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Oil

Mantra, Waves. Abstract painting, Acrylic paint on canvas
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Mantra (Waves), 2022 by Yunior Manino Acrylic paint on canvas Image size: 142 cm H X 152 cm W Unframed Signed by artist _______ Yunior Marino complet...
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2010s Abstract Still-life Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

20th Century Original French Expressionist Oil Painting Vibrant Red Flower
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Original oil painting by P. Valetti (French, second half 20th century) oil on canvas, unframed size: 18 x 14.75 inches condition: very good provenance: from the artists estate, Franc...
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20th Century Abstract Still-life Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Ficus 1 - gestural, floral, narrative, abstract, still life, acrylic on canvas
Located in Bloomfield, ON
Abstract artist Fiona Ackerman continues to be inspired by the staggering beauty of the natural world. In this lush, colourful botanical-themed composition the genus of the plant fam...
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2010s Abstract Still-life Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Black glitter bucket. From The Composition with Tools series
Located in Miami Beach, FL
The “Composition with Tools” series engages observers with quirky and playful truisms, gently leading them toward deeper reflections. Jose Ricardo Contreras, after long hours using d...
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2010s Abstract Still-life Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil, Acrylic

Mantra, Implosion. Abstract painting, Acrylic paint on canvas
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Mantra (Implosion), 2021 by Yunior Manino Acrylic paint on canvas Image size: 170 cm H X 193 cm W Unframed Signed by artist _______ Yunior Marino co...
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2010s Abstract Still-life Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

ADN 400- III, Mixed media Abstract painting on Canvas
Located in Miami Beach, FL
DNA is genetic information, hidden and encrypted in body fluids. Veiled data that we load, that we do not know and that someone knows how to decipher. Such specifications characteriz...
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2010s Abstract Still-life Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

REINA. Mixed media Abstract painting on Canvas
Located in Miami Beach, FL
" The work resists framing in concepts, it overflows the contours and borders of the rational. It is through the presence of color, combined with an abstraction at times with express...
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2010s Abstract Still-life Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Pastel, Acrylic

Plastic ADN IV, Mixed media Abstract painting on Canvas
Located in Miami Beach, FL
DNA is genetic information, hidden and encrypted in body fluids. Veiled data that we load, that we do not know and that someone knows how to decipher. Such specifications characteriz...
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2010s Abstract Still-life Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

English Abstract Painting - Modern Grass
By Spe
Located in Houston, TX
Modern abstract painting of grass and leaves in reds and gray by artist Spe, 2013. Signed lower right. Original artwork on paper displayed on a white mat with a gold border. Mat f...
Category

2010s Abstract Still-life Paintings

Materials

Paper, Acrylic

Yunxian Li Still Life Original Oil On Canvas "No.1"
Located in New York, NY
Title: No. 1 Medium: Oil on canvas Size: 15.5 x 12 inches Frame: Framing options available! Condition: The painting appears to be in excellent condition. Note: This painting is...
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Still-life Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Love Me Tender, Original Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA

Artist Comments
Artist Kip Decker pictures a stunning bouquet of red flowers with an expressionist approach. The dark crimson petals kindle a burning sense of tender romance....

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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Still-life Paintings

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Acrylic

20th Century Original Expressionist Oil Painting - Beautiful Bouquet In Vase
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Original oil painting by P. Valetti (French, second half 20th century) oil on canvas, unframed size: 25.5 x 21 inches condition: very good provenance: from the artists estate, France...
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20th Century Abstract Still-life Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Stylised Still Life, Red Palette, Original Oil Painting
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Stylised Still Life, Red Palette, Original Oil Painting Stewart Lees, British 1926-2008 Oil painting on board, framed Framed size: 27.5 x 29 inches Fabulous original oil painting, p...
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Late 20th Century Abstract Still-life Paintings

Materials

Oil

Monkey- Original hyper realism wildlife-still life paintings- Contemporary Art
Located in London, Chelsea
This exceptional artwork is currently on display and available for sale at Signet Contemporary Art Gallery and online. "Monkey" by Ian Bertolucci is a captivating exploration of whi...
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Still-life Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Flowers Underwater was created underwater
Located in Zofingen, AG
Materials: oil on canvas, 32x24" Shipping: Rolled in Tube Style: underwater impressionism, palette knife art, impasto painting Looking for a unique and one-of-a-kind piece of art to add to your collection? Look no further than this stunning underwater painting created by an artist while scuba diving. This oil painting was made with a palette knife and is inspired by the beautiful environment of the ocean floor. The artist's use of bold, vibrant colors brings to life the vibrancy of the underwater world, while the texture created by the palette knife adds depth and dimension to the piece. Whether you're a seasoned scuba diver or simply an art enthusiast, this underwater painting is sure to make a statement in any space. Don't miss out on the opportunity to own a truly unique and beautiful work of art. Order now and add this stunning piece to your collection today! A new fast growing direction in modern art - underwater painting, was created straight underwater during scuba diving at the depth of 11 meters, underwater painting session 110 minutes. Oil on canvas, palette knife technique. Inspired by marine life of the Red Sea, underwater patterns, bright colorful coral reef. What is special about underwater painting - color perception different to reality because color rays do not penetrate the water column. On the surface it is always surprise. One of the earliest underwater painting by Olga Nikitina, style underwater impressionism, still life. This artwork was exhibited at underwater exhibition in Egypt, Safaga in 2017. There is certificate of underwater painting is included with information about the depth and time of underwater painting session. Underwater painting, fish...
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2010s Abstract Still-life Paintings

Materials

Cotton Canvas, Oil

"Flowers explosion"
Located in Edinburgh, GB
The series of flowers shows a classical motif with a subtle attention to the subtle movement and rhythm of the flora, with the help of paint, abstract vision and expressive handwriti...
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Still-life Paintings

Materials

Wood, Oil

Winterberry, Abstract Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA

Artist Comments
An explosion of bright colors evokes a lively garden. The fluorescent pink and bright yellow colors bring a touch of modernity and dynamism, perfectly balanc...

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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Still-life Paintings

Materials

Acrylic

Illicit Thoughts - Acrylic Painting Red Black Blue Grey Pink Green Purple
Located in Sofia, BG
"Illicit thoughts" "Pensamientos ilícitos" is a painting by Maestro Denis Núñez. About the painting: Style and Technic: Abstract, Contemporary, Acrylic o...
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2010s Abstract Still-life Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Geometric Abstract Painting by Listed British artist Red Blue Navy Gold Colors
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
'Abstract Composition' by Michael Haswell (British, 1931-2020) inscribed verso acrylic painting on box canvas (painted edges so do not require framing)...
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Still-life Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Abstract Painting by Listed British artist - Deep Blue Mustard Gold Ochre Colors
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
'Abstract Composition' by Michael Haswell (British, 1931-2020) inscribed verso acrylic painting on box canvas (painted edges so do not require framing)...
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Still-life Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Expressive Still Life Painting Red Rose Flowers 'Red for Love' by British Artist
Located in Preston, GB
Expressive Impressionistic Still Life Painting of Red Rose Flowers entitled 'Red for Love' by British Artist, Rose Elizabeth Moorcroft 20 x 20 inches (Unframed) Oil on canvas
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Late 20th Century Abstract Still-life Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Open Fields, Abstract Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA

Artist Comments
Splash and drips of paint represent nature in this abstract floral landscape. It features neutral colors of taupe, white, and yellow, with pops of red. The ar...

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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Still-life Paintings

Materials

Acrylic

A Vase of Flowers 2, Oil Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA

Artist Comments
Painting from life, artist Mary Pratt creates a clear glass vase with light reflecting on its shiny surface. With pronounced brushstrokes, Mary sets a joyful ...

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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Still-life Paintings

Materials

Oil

Abstract Painting by Listed British artist - Amazing Range of Bright Colors
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
'Abstract Composition' by Michael Haswell (British, 1931-2020) acrylic painting on box canvas (painted edges so do not require framing) canvas measures...
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Still-life Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Majestic Mint, Oil Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA

Artist Comments
Artist McGarren Flack paints a decadent chocolate mint cupcake on a solid white background. “Who doesn't like sweets?” asks McGarren. In his Sweets series...

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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Still-life Paintings

Materials

Oil

Rubber Ducky-original realism wildlife still life oil painting-contemporary Art
Located in London, Chelsea
This exceptional artwork is currently on display and available for sale at Signet Contemporary Art Gallery and online. "Rubber Ducky" is a charming still life painting by the accomp...
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Still-life Paintings

Materials

Oil, Board

Sub-Series Underground Composition #8, East Village NYC Geometric Abstract
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Robert W. Petrick Sub-Series Underground composition #8, 2022 acrylic on canvas NYC, 2nd street studio Colorful geometric abstract acrylic painting on canvas. Robert Petrick's pain...
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Still-life Paintings

Materials

Acrylic, Canvas

London Skyline Under a Warm Sunset, Bright Lights London Cityscape Painting
Located in Deddington, GB
London Skyline Under A Warm Sunset [2023] Please note that insitu images are purely an indication of how a piece may look Marc Todd London Skyline Under A Warm Sunset Original Paint...
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Still-life Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

"AKEE" Oil Painting, Marylyn Dintenfass Modernist Abstract Expressionist Pop Art
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 Still-life Paintings

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Oil, Panel

Modernist Spanish Abstract Impressionist Oil Canvas Still Life Painting 1950
By Juan Guillermo
Located in Portland, OR
A good Spanish Modernist Abstract Impressionist painting by Juan Guillermo Rodriguez Baez (1916-1968), still life oil on canvas, circa 1950. The painting depicts a table with a brigh...
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1950s Abstract Still-life Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

CHRYSANTHEMUMS IN A GREEN VASE EDWARD BEALE British contemporary artist.
Located in Pollenca, Illes Baleares
Edward Beale 1950,,,2017. British Edward Beale was born in London in 1950, at the age of sixteen he began attending morning drawing classes at Camberwell School of Arts and Crafts...
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Still-life Paintings

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Oil

Abstract Still Life, Muted Colours, Original Oil Painting
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Abstract Still Life, Muted Colours, Original Oil Painting By British artist, Beryl Darton, Mid 20th Century Signed by the artist on the lower left hand corner Oil painting on board, ...
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1970s Abstract Still-life Paintings

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Oil

Abstract still-life paintings for sale on 1stDibs.

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