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
Summer Night #1
Located in Southampton, NY
Inspired by various facets of his own life story, Salvadoran-American artist J Oscar Molina creates work that seamlessly bridges cultures, industries, and feelings. With a commitment...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
White Drops
Located in Southampton, NY
Inspired by various facets of his own life story, Salvadoran-American artist J Oscar Molina creates work that seamlessly bridges cultures, industries, and feelings. With a commitment...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Vuelvo Al Mar (Abstract painting)
Located in London, GB
Vuelvo Al Mar (Abstract painting)
Acrylic on canvas — Unframed
This artwork will be shipped rolled in a dent-resistant tube.
This method is especially safe for large works, and prov...
Category
2010s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
ABSTRACT Geometric Colors Artwork Contemporary Artist Valerie Hudtwalcker 2024
Located in BARCELONA, ES
Valerie Hudtwalcker, of German origin, has found in painting a way of expression that transcends the boundaries of verbal language and immerses us in a universe where order and chaos...
Category
2010s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Cotton Canvas, Acrylic
Abstract Female Nude Woman Interior
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Joseph Kardonne (1911-1985).
Nude Woman, 1949.
Gouache on paper, sheet measures 13.5 x 13.5 inches. Image measures 12 x 12 inches.
Signed, dated and titled lower right. Unframed....
Category
Mid-20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Gouache
Start (Abstract Painting)
Located in London, GB
Start (Abstract Painting)
Acrylic on Montval paper — Unframed.
Martina Nehrling is an American abstract artist whose dynamic and richly textured paintings evoke kaleidoscopic worlds...
Category
2010s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Acrylic
Spore (Abstract Painting)
Located in London, GB
Spore (Abstract Painting)
Acrylic on Montval paper — Unframed.
Martina Nehrling is an American abstract artist whose dynamic and richly textured paintings evoke kaleidoscopic worlds...
Category
2010s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Acrylic
Bulb (Abstract Painting)
Located in London, GB
Bulb (Abstract Painting)
Acrylic on Montval paper — Unframed.
Martina Nehrling is an American abstract artist whose dynamic and richly textured paintings evoke kaleidoscopic worlds ...
Category
2010s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Acrylic
Two B.B. Brothers
Located in Porto, 13
Experience the avant-garde allure of "Two B.B. Brothers," a provocative oil on canvas by the visionary artist Vav Hakobyan. This painting stands out as a remarkable example of Hakoby...
Category
2010s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Two Standing Figures
Located in Porto, 13
Explore the boundaries of contemporary art with Vav Hakobyan's "Two Standing Figures," an oil on canvas that boldly challenges conventional forms through its blend of illustrative fi...
Category
2010s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Escape
Located in Porto, 13
Delve into the mesmerizing chaos of Vav Hakobyan's "Escape," a masterful oil on canvas that transcends traditional boundaries of art. This painting is a vivid testament to Hakobyan’s...
Category
2010s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Summer Night #2
Located in Southampton, NY
Inspired by various facets of his own life story, Salvadoran-American artist J Oscar Molina creates work that seamlessly bridges cultures, industries, and feelings. With a commitment...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
A Hawaiian Tapestry - Oil Paint By Marc Zimmerman
Located in Carmel, CA
Tropical plants and flowers are assembled along with partially hidden figures in this tropical scene.
A Hawaiian Tapestry - Oil Paint By Marc Zimmerman
This masterpiece is exhibite...
Category
2010s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Flow
Located in BARCELONA, ES
I hardly ever use red but this colour had a deepness to it that I loved and
represented menstruation to me. This is a time when my body holds no prisoners. Whatever I have been suppr...
Category
2010s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media
Chaos
Located in BARCELONA, ES
The chaos I refer to here is that of my highly charged, range of complex emotions that often coexist. Sometimes I get to a point where I feel it all churning inside me and that’s whe...
Category
2010s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media
Carnival of colours
Located in BARCELONA, ES
Painted in the dark with only the light from the camera stand came this dance of colours on the canvas. I noted the smaller and more tentative strokes than is usual for me in this pi...
Category
2010s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media
Abstract 2425
Located in Zofingen, AG
"In this vibrant acrylic painting, I've unleashed a torrent of raw emotion. Its daring strokes and layered textures embody a symphony of feelings, where passion meets tranquility. Th...
Category
2010s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Rush Hour - London cityscape Abstract Figurative Landscape oil painting modern
Located in London, Chelsea
The original painting by Michael Quirke,
Michael Quirke was born in 1946 and studied at St Martin’s School of Art, London. After moving from London, Michael became a member of the ...
Category
Early 2000s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
R. Poch. Two Woman Blue Eyes original acrylic canvas painting
By Ramon Poch
Located in CORAL GABLES - MIAMI, FL
91.-R. Poch. Two women. blue. eyes original acrylic canvas painting
Born in Badalona (Barcelona) in 1955.
Photographer and advertising film director.
Founding partner of the adverti...
Category
2010s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Dance Alone (Abstract painting)
Located in London, GB
Dance Alone (Abstract painting)
Acrylic on canvas — Unframed
This artwork will be shipped rolled in a dent-resistant tube.
This method is especially safe for large works, and provid...
Category
2010s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Lab #10 Painting. From the Lab series
By Alec Franco
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Lab #10, 2024 by Alec Franco
From the Lab series
Unframed
Signed by the artist
_______
The artist's works are based on time and on informal aesthetic principles that he chooses to e...
Category
2010s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Oil Pastel, Mixed Media, Acrylic
Lab #11 Painting. From the Lab series
By Alec Franco
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Lab #11, 2024 by Alec Franco
From the Lab series
Unframed
Signed by the artist
_______
The artist's works are based on time and on informal aesthetic principles that he chooses to e...
Category
2010s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Oil Pastel, Mixed Media, Acrylic
Sony (Los Angeles), Signed Screenprint, Abstract Art, Geometric Abstraction
By Sarah Morris
Located in Hamburg, DE
Sarah Morris (British, born 1967)
Sony (Los Angeles), 2005
Medium: Screenprint and lacquer on cardboard
Dimensions: 60 x 60 cm
Edition of 100 + 25 A.P.: Hand-signed and numbered, ver...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Lacquer, Screen
Huge Abstract Modernist "August Series" Mixed Media Monotype Colorful Painting
Located in Surfside, FL
Terence La Noue was born in Hammond, Indiana in 1941. He received a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Ohio Wesleyan University in 1964. After going to Berlin as a Fulbright Meister Student ...
Category
1990s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paint, Mixed Media, Monotype
Foggy Fall Forest, Painting, Acrylic on Paper
By Laura Spring
Located in Yardley, PA
This one of a kind painting is done in acrylic on paper. This painting is painted in many subtle layers built one on the top of the other, a union between complexity of technique and...
Category
2010s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Antique American Signed Modernist Abstract Expressionist Framed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Nicely painted mid century abstract expressionist painting. Framed in a silver modernist molding. Signed lower right.
Category
1950s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Gemma Bedford, Summer Dreams, Original landscape painting
Located in Deddington, GB
Summer Dreams Original Landscape painting by Gemma Bedford [2021]
original
Oil paint on canvas
Image size: H:49.5 cm x W:49.5 cm
Complete Size of Unframed Work: H:49.5 cm x W:49.5...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"The Power (Lies with the People) 1970 Olaf Karlsen
Located in SANTA FE, NM
"The Power (Lies with the People) 1970
Olaf Karlsen (b. 1947)
Oil on canvas
Signed front and back.
28 1/4 x 40 inches (frame)
Olaf Karlsen has managed to remain a man of mystery s...
Category
1970s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Silver Splash, Painting, Acrylic on Paper
By Laura Spring
Located in Yardley, PA
This one of a kind painting is done in acrylic on paper. The photos show the painting in different light conditions. First layer is Silver, greyish areas are visible shiny silver l...
Category
2010s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
"Solitaire" Abstracted Still Life Floral Painting
Located in Westport, CT
This abstracted still life painting features a cool palette. It captures a large red flower in a small glass vase. The glass vase blends into the back and foreground, creating an abs...
Category
2010s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Iris Last Stand IV" Abstracted Floral Encaustic Painting
Located in Westport, CT
This abstract floral encaustic painting by Linda Bigness features a cool green, blue, and violet palette, with large organic botanical forms as the central focus of the composition. ...
Category
2010s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Gold Leaf
Horizon n. 2
Located in BARCELONA, ES
I paint the natural phenomenon of rhythm and harmony that continues to flow within me.
For example, the patterns, colors, shapes, and energies created by the sky, clouds, sea, waves...
Category
2010s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Sweet Dreams
Located in Santa Fe, NM
Encaustic on panel.
It's simple; I create art because it makes me happy. I try not to overthink the process of what I’m painting and let my intuition be my guide. I love laying do...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Encaustic
Colorful Love Lilly Muth - Contemporary geometric abstraction - Oil Painting
Located in DE
Lilly Muth's geometric abstractions are colourful works full figures that of space such as the distance, shape, size, and relative position of figures. Her use of colour is bold yet ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The Surprise- original impressionist Cityscape oil painting-wildlife modern art
By Nathan Neven
Located in London, Chelsea
Embark on a journey of discovery with "The Surprise," a captivating original painting by artist Nathan Neven. This enchanting composition, skillfully rendered in oil on canvas, blend...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Aspiration
Located in Oslo, NO
The abstract painting “Aspiration” with acrylic filling symbolizes a person’s striving – for goals, for successes, for dreams! In this abstract acrylic painting I capture the passion...
Category
2010s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Rui Yang Still Life Original Oil On Canvas "Three-dimensional World"
Located in New York, NY
Title: Three-dimensional World
Medium: Oil on canvas
Size: 15.75 x 19.5 inches
Frame: Framing options available!
Condition: The painting appears to be in excellent condition.
N...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Large French Australian Bold Graphic Abstract Pattern Oil Painting Ces McCully
Located in Surfside, FL
Ces McCully, Australian, b. 1982
Untitled (Altar), 2021
Signed and dated CES '21 on the reverse
Oil on canvas
39 1/2 x 31 1/2 inches (100.3 x 80 cm)
Unframed
Ces McCully (born 1982, Melbourne, Australia)
Now based in Southern France, Ces McCully is a contemporary Australian artist, whose work is collected and shown internationally.
Rachael McCully's oeuvre includes text based pieces which utilize chance in color relationships, and abstract geometric paintings which often have a meditative effect; both sharing autobiographical elements with a reflection on society, and a minimalist approach. "I dabbled in painting, photography, writing and design over the years," before settling more firmly on painting. Feminist icons Cindy Sherman and Barbara Kruger were amongst her inspirations as she began studying art. However now Rachael McCully-Kerwick is forging her own visual language in the south of France.
Ces McCully explores themes of female relationships and identity through minimalistic forms, geometric compositions and repeated tribal motifs. Her work, which moves between text pieces and abstract painting, is collected and shown internationally. In McCully’s typography works, she uses vivid colours to create stylised and geometric typographical pieces, divulging secret, and often brutally honest thoughts. Muted-color, cloth-like ‘Patchwork’; geometric and linear works including ‘Mono’ and ‘Shape’; and three-dimensional Cubes with bold colors which brighten up the space.
More recently however, we have seen McCully embrace the folk art like characteristics of her work, incorporating religious iconography and human figures into her paintings.
Her works are held in private collections internationally and has been shown within Europe and Australia. Mccully has had her work on display in the Louis Vuitton flagship store, Sydney CBD.
SELECT SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2022 More Than This, Breach, Miami, USA
2021 Strange Like Me, PIERMARQ*, Sydney, Australia
2019 A Cure for Melancholy, Galerie 42B, France
2017 Beyond the Blablabla Sky, Galerie Rompone, Germany
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2022 PINK, PIERMARQ*, Sydney, Australia (with new work by Maximilian Daniels, Gabriele Herzog, Ces McCully, Galina Munroe, Rob Tucker, Andrew Salgado and Spencer Shakespeare).
2019 Bluerider Art Gallery, Taiwan
Delphian X Guts Gallery, London, UK (Douglas Cantor, Florence Hutchings, Geoffrey Bohm, Igor Moritz...
Category
2010s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Wei Zhang Abstract expressionism Original Oil On Canvas "White And Blue World"
Located in New York, NY
Title: White And Blue World
Medium: Oil on canvas
Size: 22 x 26 inches
Frame: Framing options available!
Condition: The painting appears to be in excellent condition.
Year: 2...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Cronus View from the Cave
By David Hare
Located in New York, NY
David Hare
Cronus View from the Cave, 1971
Graphite, Ink wash, Paper Collage on Paper on Board
25 x 33 inches
“Freedom is what we want,” David Hare boldly stated in 1965, but then ...
Category
1970s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink, Graphite
Untitled 76 (Abstract Painting)
Located in London, GB
Untitled 76 (Abstract Painting)
Mixed Media on Canvas — Unframed.
This artwork will be shipped rolled in a dent-resistant tube.
This method is especially safe for large works, and pr...
Category
2010s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media
Untitled (Abstract, Black, White, Blue, Gestural)
Located in Kansas City, MO
Kimberly Marney
Untitled
2024
Acrylic on Canvas
Size: 36x24x1.5in
Signed by hand
COA provided
Tags: Abstract, Black, White, Blue, Gestural
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Growing up in the country emb...
Category
2010s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Cotton Canvas, Acrylic
Nostalgia.Origami paper boat-abstract painting, made in pink, turquoise, vine, gold
By Galin R
Located in Fort Lee, NJ
The artwork is showing origami paper boats and sea waves. Abstract painting made in pink, turquoise, gold, silver, vine color.
About the Artist: Art Decorator who are working in cont...
Category
2010s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
ABSTRACT Geometric Colors Artwork Contemporary Artist Valerie Hudtwalcker 2024
Located in BARCELONA, ES
Valerie Hudtwalcker, of German origin, has found in painting a way of expression that transcends the boundaries of verbal language and immerses us in a universe where order and chaos...
Category
2010s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Cotton Canvas, Acrylic
ABSTRACT Geometric Colors Artwork Contemporary Artist Valerie Hudtwalcker 2024
Located in BARCELONA, ES
Valerie Hudtwalcker, of German origin, has found in painting a way of expression that transcends the boundaries of verbal language and immerses us in a universe where order and chaos...
Category
2010s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Cotton Canvas, Acrylic
ABSTRACT Geometric Colors Artwork Contemporary Artist Valerie Hudtwalcker 2024
Located in BARCELONA, ES
Valerie Hudtwalcker, of German origin, has found in painting a way of expression that transcends the boundaries of verbal language and immerses us in a universe where order and chaos...
Category
2010s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Cotton Canvas, Acrylic
Cronus Asleep in the Cave
By David Hare
Located in New York, NY
David Hare
Cronus Asleep in the Cave, 1971
Acrylic, ink wash, graphite, paper collage on paper on board
26 x 35 inches
“Freedom is what we want,” David Hare boldly stated in 1965, b...
Category
1970s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Paper, Ink, Graphite
ABSTRACT Geometric Colors Artwork Contemporary Artist Valerie Hudtwalcker 2024
Located in BARCELONA, ES
Valerie Hudtwalcker, of German origin, has found in painting a way of expression that transcends the boundaries of verbal language and immerses us in a universe where order and chaos...
Category
2010s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Cotton Canvas, Acrylic
ABSTRACT Geometric Colors Artwork Contemporary Artist Valerie Hudtwalcker 2024
Located in BARCELONA, ES
Valerie Hudtwalcker, of German origin, has found in painting a way of expression that transcends the boundaries of verbal language and immerses us in a universe where order and chaos...
Category
2010s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Cotton Canvas, Acrylic
Tharrats. abstract. Blue. 4 original abstract
Located in CORAL GABLES - MIAMI, FL
colors- original abstract acrylic painting. framed
Original paper by the famous Spanish artist Josep Tharrats.
Acrylic on paper. Perfect condition.
Certificate of originality
REF 290...
Category
Late 20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Cardboard
I. Cahue 20 sea bottom. algae. blue yellow. abstract
By Isidro Cahue
Located in CORAL GABLES - MIAMI, FL
bottom of the sea- original abstract acrylic canvas painting
Artwork by Spanish artist ISIDRO CAHUE.
Acrylic
Perfect state
The personality of the artist is reflected in different f...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Needle & Thread II
Located in Southampton, NY
Inspired by various facets of his own life story, Salvadoran-American artist J Oscar Molina creates work that seamlessly bridges cultures, industries, and feelings. With a commitment...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
'Abstract, Coral and Blue', Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois Design Institute
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'Fink' for Ray Fink (American, 1922-1998) and painted circa 1985.
A substantial oil by this well-listed American Abstractionist who studied at the Art Institute ...
Category
Late 20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Plaster, Oil
Needle & Thread III
Located in Southampton, NY
Inspired by various facets of his own life story, Salvadoran-American artist J Oscar Molina creates work that seamlessly bridges cultures, industries, and feelings. With a commitment...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Composition
Located in Genève, GE
Work on canvas
Category
1950s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
Threads & Needles: Scarf #1
Located in Southampton, NY
Inspired by various facets of his own life story, Salvadoran-American artist J Oscar Molina creates work that seamlessly bridges cultures, industries, and feelings. With a commitment...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Threads & Needles: Scarf #2
Located in Southampton, NY
Inspired by various facets of his own life story, Salvadoran-American artist J Oscar Molina creates work that seamlessly bridges cultures, industries, and feelings. With a commitment...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Vibrant spring colors
Located in VÉNISSIEUX, FR
In this abstract floral artwork I experience the world of nature through the bright colors of a spring period.
While painting, I sought to capture the beauty of spring flowers which...
Category
2010s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Acrylic
Abstract paintings for sale on 1stDibs.
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