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Abstract 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
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"View II" Contemporary Abstract Painting
Located in Brecon, Powys
I am drawn to making abstract works, as I find the loose visual description allows more freedom for interpretation and a greater sense of visual journey; slowing down the experience ...
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2010s Abstract Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

Borderline
Located in Kansas City, MO
Lukaszs Olek Borderline Acrylic on Canvas Year: 2019 Size: 47x55x0.8in Signed by hand COA provided Ref.: 924802-1563 *comes framed on stretcher ready to hang with sides painted blac...
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2010s Abstract Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

Between Heaven and Earth: Petrichor - acrylic on canvas
Located in West Hollywood, CA
Stephanie Visser, a native of southwestern Michigan, was educated at Kendall College of Art and Design in Grand Rapids Michigan. She continued her education in fine arts and painting...
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2010s Abstract Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

Huge Antique American School Original Oil On Canvas Landscape Abstract Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American modernist abstract landscape. Oil on canvas, circa 1950. Unsigned. Image size 60L x 36H. Unframed
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1960s Abstract Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Aleatory Digital Pattern
Located in Lisboa, PT
Joana Lucas (Lisbon, 1979). Fine Arts Degree - Painting, FBAUL Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Lisbon (2000). Erasmus scholar, Statens kunstakade...
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2010s Abstract Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

Untitled
Located in Ridgewood, NY
Most mornings we wake up to a physical reality of sharp contrast and clear-cut edges. Defined outlines help us navigate everyday life and the world around us. But the blurry fringes of perception are where things get interesting. This is what I want to reveal with my work: the unspoken, the hidden parts, the beauty of impermanence. Painting, collage and monoprint allow me to dig around in these spaces and textures as if surfing through the visual twilight. They let me feel the passage of time, the aging patinas and the rawness of urban decay...
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2010s Abstract Paintings

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Acrylic

Ecuadorian Contemporary Art by Doïna Vieru - Untitled
Located in Paris, IDF
Oil on canvas Doïna Vieru is an Ecuadorian-Moldavian artist born in 1978 who lives & works in France, Paris. She always preferred pas/pas/passionately the image to the word and all ...
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2010s Abstract Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Dark sense
Located in LAS ROZAS DE MADRID, ES
Due to the size of the work, it was sent rolled in a tube El cuadro abstracto es una obra de arte sorprendente y cautivadora que evoca una sensación de ensoñación y fantasía. La pie...
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Paintings

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Enamel

Flock 5, Black and White Abstract Drawing, Starling Art, Nature Art, Monochrome
Located in Deddington, GB
Original work on paper work by Nigel bird. It is part of a collection of work inspired by sound. “During the time I lived in Southern France, I once had the good fortune to be walkin...
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2010s Abstract Paintings

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Pen, Paper

Ecuadorian Contemporary Art by Doïna Vieru - Untitled
Located in Paris, IDF
Oil on canvas Doïna Vieru is an Ecuadorian-Moldavian artist born in 1978 who lives & works in France, Paris. She always preferred pas/pas/passionately the image to the word and all ...
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2010s Abstract Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Annamarie Dzendrowskyj, Twilight - Into the Night - M25 I, Abstract Cityscape
Located in Deddington, GB
Annamarie Dzendrowskyj, Twilight - Into the Night - M25 I Signed by the artist Oil on canvas Size: H 28 x W 38cm Sold Unframed Please note that insitu images are purely an indicatio...
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Gold Coral
Located in Singapore, SG
A spirit, the hope of the artist after going through mourning because of the departure of her father. She found optimism to continue life and an aspiration to gain glory in every ste...
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

An Ode To Spring, Bold Abstract Seasonal Painting, Original Statement Diptych
Located in Deddington, GB
Dreaming of Spring….warm days, fresh blooms, promise in the air. Gorgeous green resin and stunning golds. Original artworks full of deep textures using artist...
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2010s Abstract Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

"Rubber Jungle I" (abstract, modern, bold, black & white, sculptural diptych)
Located in Paris, IDF
RUBBER JUNGLE I 2022 Paris, France A graphic and bold abstract painting. Primarily black and white acrylic painted on canvas. Neutral and modern, with loose, playful and energetic movement. Inspired by childhood interpretations of shapes in the dark - there is a sense of unknown when the imagination takes over. Subtle color comes into play with accents of Indian ink, dried terra cotta pigment and sage green paint. Option to create a pair alongside "Rubber Jungle II" (as pictured). Price and size are per painting. Evans Deventer stamp and signature on back. We are happy to offer subsidized shipping options. -- Nicholas Evans (b. 1982) is an American, Paris-based artist, designer and creative director. Painting is a cornerstone of Evans’ artistic expression, which is largely inspired by personal events, religious symbolism, and historical allegories. In addition to traditional oil and acrylics, Evans uses materials such as plasters, wax, salt and found objects in his works, presenting a way to seek new meaning in elements that have collapsed or eroded over time. Threads of poetry convey the fragmented logic of suffering, lost love...
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

Construction of shape 02
Located in BARCELONA, ES
Acrylic on linen
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2010s Abstract Paintings

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Acrylic

Nocturne 902
Located in Phoenix, AZ
acrylic on canvas, over concave wood panel Andy Moses is interested in pushing the physical properties of paint. Through chemical reactions, viscosity interference, and gravity dispersion, Moses creates elaborate compositions that mimic nature and its forces. DESERT LIGHT is a body of work that responds to the sense of infinite space that drifts in on California's ocean breezes and across the Southwest's vast, desert expanses. Light and space naturally elongate in these geographies and Moses channels this time warp through both material and process. Born in Los Angeles in 1962, Moses attended California Institute of the Arts...
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2010s Abstract Paintings

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Acrylic, Wood Panel

Elegant Motion
Located in NIAGARA PARK, NSW
This artwork is about motion, in particular movement of form and colour. It is representative of moving emotions, that flow together, creating a residual effect. The work is in the s...
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2010s Abstract Paintings

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Acrylic Polymer, Acrylic

BOAT 02 September 20:24 - Modern Landscape Oil Painting, Nature Lake, Minimalism
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...
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2010s Abstract Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Candy
Located in Genève, GE
Work on canvas
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Mid-20th Century Abstract Paintings

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Oil

'your life starts now' Abstract Expressionist, Scandinavian artwork, colorful
Located in Lahti, FI
'your life starts now' is a reminder that today happens only today, everything in life and beyond happens right in this moment. The Universe is full of endless possibilities for us. ...
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2010s Abstract Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic, Color Pencil

Abstract mixed Media Collage Vibrant Painting
Located in Surfside, FL
Genre: Contemporary Subject: Abstract Medium: Mixed Media Surface: Canvas Country: United States Dimensions: 32.25" x 24.25" commissions for movie advertisements, stage sets...
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20th Century Abstract Paintings

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Mixed Media

Between Black and White #2
Located in Singapore, SG
The artist feels that everyone has two opposing sides, just like the dualisms that make up the universe, day and night, male and female, hot and cold, and so on. Sometimes we get cau...
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

CHRYSALIS
Located in Phoenix, AZ
b. 1942, Elgin, OK Jim Waid creates abstract worlds saturated with color, layered with mark, filled with rhythm and movement, and intricately textured. His canvases barely contain ...
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2010s Abstract Paintings

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Acrylic

Chinese Contemporary Art by Renjie Gao - A Whole Ship of Sensitive Lies
Located in Paris, IDF
Oil on canvas
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2010s Abstract Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

French Abstract Contemporary Art by Daniel Cayo - Oh! Calypso
Located in Paris, IDF
Oil on canvas 81 x 65 x 3 cm Signed at right bottom Unframed
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2010s Abstract Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

What the Night Delivers Black and Yellow Art Abstract Painting, Contemporary Art
Located in Deddington, GB
What the night delivers" an original abstract contemporary landscape by Gina Parr and other works from the series "Love or Money", explore the deep emotional connection with land and sea scape that the Artist's father gave to her; taking her with him on his day and night fishing trips when she was a child. Working with the memories and emotions of both joy and saudade for time past and life experience gained, her practice reflects her fundamental need to express this bitter- sweet nature of the human condition through abstracted scape and form. In this work Parr is interested in conveying both the joy and the apprehension of her memory of an overnight trip in the darkness to fish with her father. Gina Parr is available online and in our gallery at Wychwood Art. Gina works predominantly in the medium of painting, but also photographs when traveling: her way of painting whilst on the move. Her work is driven by autobiographical themes and natural reference, exploring the human condition through connections to place, time, space and memory. She has exhibited widely in galleries and art fairs in the UK and completed commissions in The Middle East, Belguim and London. Her works are held in collections Worldwide including Keble College Oxford, Director of Jestico + Whiles Architects London, President of the Boston's Children's Museum USA, and Goldman Sachs Senior Economist, London. Originally trained as a Fine Artist, graduating with a First Class BA Honours Degree, she went on to Chelsea College of Art to study Set...
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2010s Abstract Paintings

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Canvas, Charcoal, Mixed Media, Oil, Acrylic

Original 70's Hand Painted Textile Design Gouache Black & Orange on White Paper
Located in ALCOY/ALCOI, ES
Abstract Expressionist design. Sealed on the back with the design studio name and number 91. Ilegible signature We offer a small number of these original illustration designs by thi...
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1970s Abstract Paintings

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Paper, Gouache

Intervals - large, black, blue, pink, contemporary abstract, acrylic on canvas
Located in Bloomfield, ON
In this bold new abstract painting by Milly Ristvedt vertical lines of colour in various widths pop against a soft, fluid burgundy canvas. As always, the colour palette—bright pink, and turquoise is fresh and modern—a brilliant contrast to the darker background. Art Critic Barry Lord (Art in America) declared that Ristvedt’s paintings were ‘more insistent than Bush, more consciously structured than Molinari.’ “(Colour) has a dual (and magical) identity as elusive, optical sensation and physical, material substance that compels me to explore its expressive possibilities.” Milly Ristvedt Born in British Columbia, Ristvedt studied at the Vancouver School of Art (now the Emily Carr University) and had her first solo exhibit at the Carmen Lamanna Gallery in Toronto. In the late 1960s, Ristvedt shared a studio with famed Canadian painter Jack Bush, met art critic Clement Greenberg and was inspired by American painters Jules Olitiski...
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2010s Abstract Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

SHAPED PAINTINDS #018
Located in Marrakech, MA
Acrylic paint on galvanized steel plates X2 120X155 CM, Thickness 5.5 CM, 2022 Signed on the back
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2010s Abstract Paintings

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Metal

SHAPED PAINTINDS #015
Located in Marrakech, MA
Acrylic paint on galvanized steel plates X2 106X117 CM, Thickness 5.5 CM, 2022 Signed on the back
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2010s Abstract Paintings

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Metal

"Abstract Script" Ink on Fabric Painting 79" x 16" inch by Mohamed Monaiseer
Located in Culver City, CA
"Abstract Script" Ink on Fabric Painting 79" x 16" inch by Mohamed Monaiseer Trinity series (2015) In this work, I am a developing personal philosophy of the trinity—the uniting of...
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Paintings

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Fabric, Ink

Mercification III
Located in Tulsa, OK
These works thematize the commodification of a living body, an old issue that has become tragic nowadays. The human body has been deprived of its beauty, sacredness and possible eleg...
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Deep Tonal Abstract Expressionist Painting with Pink Splatter
By Larry Martin
Located in Houston, TX
Contemporary abstract expressionist painting with deep blues, greens, and pink splatters. The work is signed by artist Larry Martin who lives and works in Houston, Texas. The canvas ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Paintings

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Acrylic

Florentine Night, 1950s Abstract Oil Painting by Edward Chavez, Purple Blue
Located in Denver, CO
"Florentine Night" is an oil on canvas painting by Edward (Eduardo) Arcenio Chavez (1917-1995) circa 1951 signed and titled on back of canvas. Signed and titled by the artist verso. Abstract painting in bright blue, purple, green, yellow, and orange. Presented in the original artist frame measuring 28 x 33 inches, image size is 24 x 30 inches. Expedited and International shipping is available - please contact us for a quote. About the Artist: Born 1917 Died 1995 Born in Wagonmound, New Mexico, Eduardo Chavez...
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1950s Abstract Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

French Abstract Contemporary Art by Daniel Cayo - C’est le Vent qui Passe
Located in Paris, IDF
Oil on canvas 90 x 65 x 3 cm Framed in a black American box
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2010s Abstract Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Star Sheperd
Located in Singapore, SG
This artwork is a statement that emphasizes that everyone has the right to have dreams and aspirations even if they are as high as the stars in the sky.
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

Echo Series: Pushing Back the Sea- acrylic on canvas
Located in West Hollywood, CA
Stephanie Visser, a native of southwestern Michigan, was educated at Kendall College of Art and Design in Grand Rapids Michigan. She continued her education in fine arts and painting...
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2010s Abstract Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

Telluride Twilight, Contemporary Impressionist Colorado Mountain Landscape, LE
Located in Golden, CO
This amazing landscape painting of Telluride, Colorado is a bold and vivid work of contemporary art. The large-scale digital painting, dye-sublimated onto aluminum by Coloradan artis...
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2010s Abstract Paintings

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Metal

Well I Wonder
Located in Nottingham, GB
Original artwork, oil on board. Anna starts by sketching her figures. Based on everyday people, everyday life. Embossing her art boards with telephone directory before adding oils. ...
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2010s Abstract Paintings

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Oil

Chinese Contemporary Art by Renjie Gao - The Incurable Madhouse
Located in Paris, IDF
Oil on canvas
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2010s Abstract Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Night in the Ocean
Located in LAS ROZAS DE MADRID, ES
Due to the size of the work, it was Shipped rolled in a tube without a frame Painting: Acrylic and enamel on Canvas. Oversize XXL Abstract Painting. This impressive piece of art mea...
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Paintings

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Enamel

B2150
Located in Baranzate, IT
TITLE: B2150 ARTIST: Ciro Strino YEAR: 2023 MEDIUM TYPE: Painting MEDIUM/MATERIALS: Enamels on wood DIMENSIONS: 52 x 62 cm
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Paintings

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Enamel

Serenissima - Untitled, Blue and Red Abstract Painting, Abstract Venice Art
Located in Deddington, GB
One of two large paintings that celebrate the spirit of Venice by abstracting a series of views to create a picture reflecting the strength of the city. Discover new paintings by Jon Rowland and his abstract paintings online and in our gallery with Wychwood Art. Each work has been carefully selected by Deborah Allan our Chief Art Curator. Wychwood Art have exhibited Jon Rowland in London during a pop-up exhibition of theirs at the Darren Baker Gallery. His paintings have been displayed at the Royal Academy and at the Berthold and Darren Baker Gallery in London. He has also exhibited in group exhibitions at Linacre and Green Colleges, at Swann Gallery in Woodstock, and with Wychwood Art at Battersea Art Fair. He was one of six contemporary artists who took part in an exhibition of views of Blenheim Palace, juxtaposing the original visions with today's, as part of the celebration of the 300th anniversary of Capability Brown's birth. Solo exhibitions have been at the Said Business School, Wolfson College in Central Oxford, and most recently at the Sewell Centre Art Gallery and Cornerstone Art Centre in Oxfordshire, and the Boiler Room Gallery in Central Oxford. Through Wychwood Art, he has carried out several large scale commissions for private clients. Jon comments: Painting is a journey. One starts at one place - the blank canvas, and hopefully ends at a resolution. Sometimes one gets lost. My aim in this journey is to create original, contemporary art that is grounded in place. Chance and opportunity are the travelling companions; but the art is to know when the journey is complete. I tend to work in series, with references to locations that are abstracted, reflecting on themes of colour, movement and space. In some themes I use concepts...
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2010s Abstract Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

Chinese Contemporary Art by Renjie Gao - Soaring Series 7
Located in Paris, IDF
Oil on canvas
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2010s Abstract Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Chinese Contemporary Art by Renjie Gao - Soaring Series 5
Located in Paris, IDF
Oil on canvas
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2010s Abstract Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Chinese Contemporary Art by Renjie Gao - Soaring Series 4
Located in Paris, IDF
Oil on canvas
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2010s Abstract Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

Night at the Zoo - acrylic on canvas
Located in West Hollywood, CA
Nina is an artist, ceramist and colorist with 20 years of professional experience and a lifetime of art appreciation. Originally from Virginia and having traveled and lived extensive...
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2010s Abstract Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

Diamond XLIII /// Contemporary Abstract Geometric Painting Striped Minimalism
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: Jack Graves III (American, 1988-) Title: "Diamond XLIII" Series: Diamond *Signed by Graves lower right. It is also signed, dated, and titled on verso Year: 2022 Medium: Origi...
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2010s Abstract Paintings

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Canvas, Paint, Acrylic

Offering - colourful, lyrical, gestural abstract, acrylic & crayon on canvas
Located in Bloomfield, ON
Using a glorious tapestry of rich colours…burnished copper, yellow, red, purple and blue, Alice Teichert’s acrylic painting, “Offering” seems to evoke images of ancient offerings mad...
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2010s Abstract Paintings

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Canvas, Crayon, Acrylic

"Musicians. Flute" Oil Painting 31" x 23" inch by Raphael Aslanyan
By Raphael Aslanyan
Located in Culver City, CA
"Musicians. Flute" Oil Painting 31" x 23" inch by Raphael Aslanyan The painter was born in Armenia, in 1976 he graduated from the Yerevan Art and Theater Academy, having received an art education. His teacher was Sarkis Muradyan, the national artist of Armenia, who studied the profession with the great Martiros Saryan...
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Cranes 4 - Black & white painting, Mixed media, Collage, Polish art
Located in Warsaw, PL
ŁUKASZ FRUCZEK (born in 1975) Between 1995 and 2000 studied painting in the Department of Painting and Graphic Art of the Academy of Fine Arts in Gdansk. In 2001 graduated with hono...
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2010s Abstract Paintings

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Paper, Mixed Media, Acrylic

On the Dark Side of Your Mind
Located in Petworth, GB
Tuëma Pattie was born in Dublin, studied at the Belfast College of Art, the Central School of Art and Design and Morley College, London, and with Piers Ottey and Christopher Baker in Sussex, and Robin Child in Devon. In her early days in Belfast and London, she took advantage of urban scenes as her subject matter. She then had a long period in which she took time out to have two children and to support her husband in his career. It was a difficult to find time for her beloved painting, as was the case for many women in that era. Tuëma has exhibited extensively at the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, the London Art Fair, the Royal Hibernian Summer Exhibition, the Cork Street Gallery, Art for Youth at the Mall Gallery London, London Art Fair, Chichester Open, East Hampshire Art Fair, the Jorgensen Gallery in Dublin and at Glyndebourne. Also with Kevis House Gallery, Moncrieff Bray Gallery and Rountree Tryon Gallery...
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Paintings

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Oil

Chinese Contemporary Art by Renjie Gao - White Plaster Statue
Located in Paris, IDF
Oil on canvas
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2010s Abstract Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Sea Breathing
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Chen Yu’s art started with lacquer painting. On this foundation, her materials experiments and conceptual extensions have developed in two directions; she is serious and measured, an...
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2010s Abstract Paintings

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Canvas, Lacquer, Mixed Media

Pitizal
Located in Marrakech, MA
Ink on Fine Art paper Artwork done with a compass Black exterior frame Framed dimensions: 113x83 (x5)cm Signed on the back
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2010s Abstract Paintings

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Paper, Ink

Glimpse of Wonder, Bold Landscape Painting, Abstract Art, Swiss Alps Artwork
Located in Deddington, GB
Glimpse Of Wonder is taken from a collection of studies from the Swiss Alps, the sunsets seen on many trips. Starting from the quite detailed sketches in situ on paper which seem to dissolve in the studio, making way to a fresh, intuitive, adventurous flow of creativity which is more spontaneous. The paint is applied gesturally in bold motions creating vivid energy which means often unexpected things happen with mark making, form and colour which influence how the piece evolves Discover more original artwork by Susanne Winter...
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2010s Abstract Paintings

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Acrylic

"Untitled 4" Painting 51" x 51" inch by GUELA TSOULADZE
Located in Culver City, CA
"Untitled 4" Painting 51" x 51" inch by GUELA TSOULADZE Oil painting on oilcloth canvases. ABOUT THE ARTIST: Nomad from birth, Guela Tsouladzé was born on November 8, 1959 in Tbilisi, Georgia, from a French mother and a Georgian father. His father was one of the first Georgian psychanalyst; but working with the conscient and subconscient of the homo sovieticus was a disputed occupation, criticized by the soviet ideology. Therefore, it required a significant dose of audacity; it’s in this context of insubordination and freedom, that Guela tirelessly repeats that he will be an artist, without ever having painted anything. The father thus commissioned his first work: a black dot on the ceiling of his office, which his patients would fix during the sessions. The gateway to hypnosis, and the artist’s future signature. Perhaps Guela's innate sense of daring and escapism comes from there; these two themes are till today reflected in his works. Guela grows up in a surreal artistic universe, between France and Georgia, inspired in particular by Pirosmani, the brothers Zdanevitch and Salvador Dali, whom he met shortly before his death in 1981 at Portiligat Cadaques, and surrounded by the filmmaker Paradjanov, a friend of the Tsouladze family. He begins his studies at the Fine Arts on Tbilisi in 1977, but the ultimate horizon is Paris. He joins the Art Décoratifs from 1980 to 1983 and then the Beaux-Arts from 1983 to 1985. He becomes the assistant of Christian Boltanski, whom he follows from exhibition to exhibition. In France, the 80s are colorful years, wild like a Fauvist painting. Art comes out of museums and gives birth to the free figuration, an elusive movement, which was slowly taking shape in the lethargy of the Beaux-Arts. Pop culture, in its spontaneity and in its lack of self-control, takes over everything and breaks down all codes, groups and borders. Art is free from all constraints and analysis. Guela is there at the right time, in the right place, with the right people. The Holy Trinity, as he likes to repeat. These crazy years are an ecstatic playground for his artistic instincts. Guela paints on everything: papers, canvases or newspapers. His grand formats are at the scale of his silhouette; he leaves the Beaux-Art and joins the first squats in the nineteenth arrondissement of Paris, notably the Quai de Seine workshop, which he shares with Remy Blanchard and Vincent Scali. These are the years of Ben, of the Di Rosa brothers, of Robert Combas and François Boisrond. Art for everyone, and party for all. Guela follows his intuitions to Ibiza and Barcelona from 1987 to 1993, where he works at the Casa Caritad, which will later become the city's Museum of Modern Art. This colorful and collective delight contrasts with the dark anxieties of our time. Contrary to the widespread dystopia, it was then the utopia that reigned! New York is its epicenter, shaped by Basquiat and Keith Haring. Guela lives there from 1993 to 1998, including several years at the legendary Chelsea Hotel, of which he covers the walls and furniture with Georgian calligraphy. This is where his simplistic, black, and loving figures were born, later becoming his trademark and one of the symbols of Batumi. It was precisely at the end of the 90s that his desire to build bridges between his native country and France became deeper. The Soviet Union died in a burst of freedom, and the Georgians slowly come out of a fratricidal war, fueled by Russia. Georgia needs love, so Guela replaces the flag’s crosses with hearts, following the 2003 Rose Revolution. Since then, convinced that art is the answer to the stress that is still plaguing Georgia, Guela multiplies projects for exhibitions, partnerships, festivals and art centers. He brings several French artists to the Garikula Residency, including Jean Dupuy...
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

TAKE ME TO THE OCEAN III, Opulent Statement Artwork, Dramatic Painting, Gold Art
Located in Deddington, GB
TAKE ME TO THE OCEAN III [2022] Please note that insitu images are purely an indication of how a piece may look "Take Me To The Ocean III" was inspired by the beautiful pristine turquoise waters and golden sunshine off the coast of Menorca on holiday this summer. Gorgeous turquoises mixed with golds and black. An original one of a kind artwork full of deep textures using artist...
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2010s Abstract Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

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