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
Tracery
Located in San Luis Obispo, CA
Suzie Buchholz is a Bay Area-based abstract painter with a playful yet rebellious approach to the tradition of Abstract Expressionism. Her process is highly physical,driven by an ins...
Category
2010s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
Curious Sound
Located in Boca Raton, FL
Lyrical abstraction in black
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
Zoo Escape
Located in PARIS, FR
" Zoo Escape "
270 x 195 x 2
Indian Ink on Canvas
2023
Unique
by Ammar Hammoud Syrian Contemporary Artist
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
India Ink
Self-Portrait as Hourglass
Located in New York, NY
Oil on canvas
Category
2010s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Abstract Expressionist painting- The myths of love
Located in Beijing, CN
Description:
Wan Rui
acrylic on canvas
80 x 120 cm
dated 2021
About Wan Rui
Wan rui is a chinese contemporary artist, born in 1970 in Hunan, China. The artist received her MA fro...
Category
2010s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
The Map of A Myth II
Located in MADRID, ES
Using calligraphic brushstrokes and muted color tones, I intend to bring in some traits of Chinese art. Assembling elements of art in the East and West is to signify the unique histo...
Category
2010s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Acrylic
Discarded treasures
Located in MADRID, ES
This mixed media work was created intuitively, with the creature emerging only towards the end of the process. It suggested to me a dinosaur or ancient extinct monster.
As part of my...
Category
2010s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media
Dream intent
Located in MADRID, ES
I had a dream/vision of this painting before I started it. The colours were the starting point. I wanted to revel in warm reds, oranges and pinks. As the painting progressed figures ...
Category
2010s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media
Contemporary Acrylic Painting Burning Ember On Canvas
Located in Toronto, CA
Burning Ember is painted on a wood panel, in acrylic. The size is 40" x 40". The painting hangs on a French cleat.
Troy Smith is a Canadian artist, designer, sculptor and painter w...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Cotton Canvas, Acrylic, Wood Panel
Gold Drop
Located in Southampton, NY
The beauty of the gold sky emits a hard 'rain' of figures determined to find their true place in the terrain.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Blue Depth
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
Category
2010s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink
Birchbands 2
Located in San Luis Obispo, CA
Michael Kessler was born in 1954 in Hanover, Pennsylvania and had his first art show in 1080. His abstract art awards include the Rome Prize for Painting from the American Academy in...
Category
2010s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Poppies
By Tuëma Pattie
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...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
Untitled
By Rafael Ruz
Located in Barcelona, ES
The painting is being offered with a work and authenticity certificate
Category
1980s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Mixed Media
"LES FRUITS DE L'ACTE" Pollock style
Located in SAINT-ALPINIEN, FR
Hand-painted. Not a print. Painting is signed at front and back. Dated. Contemporary FINE ART Original PAINTING, acrylics, collage(silk, pearls) , spray paint on paper, unframed. Title:Les fruits...
Category
2010s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Spray Paint, Acrylic, Silk
Transhumanismo (Oil Paint Abstract Wood Contemporary Mexican)
Located in Ciudad de México, MX
Raúl Cerillo’s creations are characterized by the construction of surfaces with multiple layers of paint, acquiring a three-dimensional appearance. Each piece, according to the artis...
Category
2010s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Wood, Oil
EMKAY
Located in Marrakech, MA
Abstract calligraphy.
Mixed media on canvas.
Black exterior frame.
Framed dimensions : 115x101x5cm.
Signature on the back.
Category
2010s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Ink, Mixed Media, Oil, Acrylic
Spill (Laocoön)
Located in New York, NY
Oil on canvas
Category
2010s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Highway
Located in Singapore, SG
A highway always seems never-ending. On its journey it comes across rivers, villages, cities, forests and mountains. It meets with different languages, different traditions, and many...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Cotton, Plywood, Paper
Untitled
Located in Barcelona, ES
The painting is being offered with a work and authenticity certificate
Category
1980s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Lithograph
Stay Still, 2022, mixed media, oil on paper, figurative painting
Located in Izmir, TR
In several mystical traditions, there are common elements that are needed for spiritual metamorphosis and transitions to another, transcendent dimension. In Sufism, there is also an inner dimension to the law that has to do with repentance, the abasement of desire, and discipline of the self, or the elimination of the ego. Transparent figures emphasize the inner world of pure innocence which is the prototype human being, pure consciousness, one's true identity, to be contrasted with the material human who is bound by one's senses and materialism. Materialism is shown by also patterns in the paintings. The two different layers are against each other in a contradictory way. Feeling the need to go deeper into this inner, imaginative world, I began to set artworks from the past in less familiar contexts such as seas or patterns and combine the figure with them where they seemed to become like elements in some greater dream. With her small paper works, Ece Gauer...
Category
2010s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
Música del Niagara
Located in New York, NY
Valeria Vilar dissolves and gives rise to strokes of abstraction through figuration allowing viewers to recompose the story. She reconstructs and creates spaces from memories, tales...
Category
2010s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Archival Paper
Singapore Noon 1.3
Located in New York, NY
Acrylic on Canvas
Category
2010s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Mrs Mangle
Located in MADRID, ES
Mrs Mangle is a painting to remind us that old people was once upon a time young, beautiful and vibrant. Remind yourself that this will be you one day.
Matisse acrylic on Ply wood.
Category
2010s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Untitled
Located in New York, NY
Isabel Turbán layers paintings with transfers, acrylic, charcoal, and other mixed media onto canvas or paper. Her abstract paintings manifest memory, cultural experience, and politi...
Category
2010s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media
Toxic
Located in Singapore, SG
The world is ruled by an elite class who control the lives of most people with big lies and media propaganda. Everything is displayed so convincingly that it's hard for us to see the...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
No Diesel
Located in MADRID, ES
I painted this at the start of the war in Ukraine, it pokes fun at the disorganisation of Putins attack on Ukraine with claims he would take the country within a few days. I painted ...
Category
2010s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
ET Pollination
By Karl Momen
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Momen is the creator of the Metaphor: The Tree of Utah, an 87-foot (27 m) sculpture resembling a tree in the Bonneville Salt Flats off of Interstate 80. He financed the project himself and built it from 1982 to 1986, afterwards donating the sculpture to the state of Utah.
Known For remaining true to the initiation he received early in his career into the modernist paradigm that still informs his distinctive style to the present day. Momen is the most long-lived exponent of early twentieth century Geometric abstraction movement.
bauhaus, futurism art...
Category
20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
Untitled
Located in Barcelona, ES
original and certificated by gallery
Category
Early 2000s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink
Untitled - Textured Mixed Media Minimalist Abstract Painting, 2021
By Pau Escat
Located in Porto, 13
Untitled is an original work of art by the Catalan artist Pau Escat.
This painting is created by the artist Pau Escat. The artist wants to represent landscape through his feelings a...
Category
2010s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Plaster, Spray Paint, Acrylic
"Love in the Eye of a Hurricane" - Abstract Expressionist Painting on Panel 2022
Located in San Diego, CA
A contemporary painting in an abstract expressionist style, "Love in the Eye of a Hurricane" features gestural acrylic brushstrokes and mixed media markings atop wood panel. It is an original, fine art painting created in 2021 by abstract artist Kara Greenwell. Sophisticated Payne's gray blue hues blend with beige, white and pale pink acrylic paint in contrast to dramatic black and white charcoal and graphite marks. The artist continued the painting extending around the edges of this gallery wrapped canvas, ensuring visual interest from all angles. Measuring 40 inches by 30 inches, this mid-sized abstract painting is the perfect modern statement piece for any wall. The painting can be hung a nail or picture...
Category
2010s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Charcoal, Crayon, Acrylic, Pencil, Graphite
"Valentine's Day II"
By Lamar Briggs
Located in Lambertville, NJ
Lamar Briggs (1935 – 2015)
Abstract artist, Lamar Briggs, was born November 13, 1935 in Lafayette, Louisiana. He initially attended the University of Southern Louisiana for architec...
Category
20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Panel
Stormy Weather I
Located in Nashville, TN
This stunning abstract by contemporary artist, architect, and designer Ana Carolina Mönnaco blends a beautiful variety of colors that make the piece jump off the canvas.
This piece was made for the artist's exhibit, "Blurred & Fractured," at Modfellows Art Gallery - WeHo in Nashville, Tennessee. The piece is hand signed by the artist in the bottom-right corner and comes with a Certificate of Authenticity issued by the gallery.
Mönnaco’s history in architecture has pushed her to peer past the structured world in which we live, to convey the unbound world which surrounds us. She is interested in the continuous reaching of life. She says, “we live with this blurred and fractured vision of the world, yet inside each of us there’s an undeniable conviction that something beautiful and perfect still exists beyond our grasp.” In response to this, Mönnaco uses a sophisticated color palette and inspiration found in the beauty of the natural world to create rich environments which encapsulate the viewer by surrounding them with wonderment of the unknown.
About the Artist: Ana Carolina Mönnaco is an artist from Curitiba, Brazil, where she developed a love of art and architecture. She graduated from Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. After graduating in 2002, she joined Morris Architects in Orlando, Florida. Mönnaco has won many prestigious awards including the International Watercolor Masters Merit Award, the AIP 24 Juror Award, and the AIP Hugh Ferris...
Category
2010s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Pastel, Acrylic, Graphite
Sharpcut
Located in Marrakech, MA
Oil and Acrylic on Canvas
Exterior black wood frame
Framed dimensions: 115x185 (x5) cm
Signed on the back
Category
2010s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Acrylic
SHAPED PAINTINGS #017
Located in Marrakech, MA
Acrylic paint on galvanized steel plates X2
107X132 CM, Thickness 5.5 CM, 2022
Signed on the back
Category
2010s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Metal
Listen
By Amrta Art
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This piece is part of the Amrta Gold Series. These pieces are incredibly unique and cannot be replicated. The are multilayered mixed media abstracts all with 24k gold leaf on top. Th...
Category
2010s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Gold Leaf
The Last Banyan Tree
Located in Singapore, SG
The form of a large tree and the city's high-rise buildings are illustrated here to depict the fate of a big tree exposed to the unstoppable concrete flat construction culture.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Cotton, Pigment
Wooden Heads
Located in Wien, 9
Since Franz Ecker’s early death in 1999 his work has been newly appreciated, what is manifested in numerous exhibitions, catalogues and in the acclaimed film about the artist. He was extremely productive and left behind an almost unmanageable scope of works in various styles. Among them some of the top works that are unparalleled in recent Austrian art history and whose significance has not yet been adequately appreciated.
After finishing his studies in 1966 in class of prof. Sergius Pauser and after receiving his two prizes, Franz Ecker moved back to Leonding where he developed his clear, abstract language of forms. Among his sources of inspiration are Cezanne and Picasso, as well as Martin Polasek who was one of his teachers. This led him to painting in a flat and abstract manner, which triggers a spatial experience through its exact color coordination and strict composition. The strongest period in his oeuvre is the time when his paintings are between figuration and abstraction. Only until around 1975 he additionally creates numerous watercolors, even though he restricts this medium to his more lyrical works.
If Franz Ecker cannot be included in the avant-garde cannon of the 70’s, it is only because he witheld from presenting his works on the art market. Instead of using the opportunities that were offered to him in Vienna, he returned after his time at the academy to Linz where there was no appreciation nor market for his works. Distanced from the established art business, Ecker lives uncompromisingly the precarious life of a lonely genius. An artist myth, which in his case certainly is a bitter reality. Unimpressed by this, Ecker develops an increasingly broad language of forms within the clear line of abstract pictorial conception, which he emphasizes with constantly new forms of signature.
At the end of the seventies his works became more gestural and expressive. His works like “Kafka” anticipate the “Neue Wilden”. When these are celebrated as the “return of painting...
Category
Late 20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paint, Oil, Panel, Wood Panel
Pearl Diver
Located in Santa Monica, CA
A graduate of The Art Center College of Design and The Claremont Graduate School, Couwenberg worked under the guidance of Karl Benjamin, one of the leading figures in the Southern Ca...
Category
2010s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Spray Paint, Acrylic
Inscription #07
Located in Antwerpen, VAN
Starting with inspiration from the visible world around him, Saleh Mohammadi reaches beyond the tangible and reproduces his own mind's eye.
Geometric shapes with a reference to the...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Textile, Acrylic
"L'AU DELA DES MOTS" Pollock style
Located in SAINT-ALPINIEN, FR
Hand-painted. Not a print. Painting is signed at front and back. Dated. Contemporary FINE ART Original PAINTING, acrylics, carded wool , spray paint on paper, unframed. Title: L'au...
Category
2010s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Spray Paint, Acrylic
Abstract Landscape Painting by Victor Manuel Gomez
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Large Format Abstract Pink & Black Mixed Media Painting by Cuban Artist Victor Manuel.
Victor is an emerging talent born and raised in Havana. With a great sense of Havana’s always ...
Category
2010s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Cotton Canvas, Acrylic
The Night Journey - Drip Painting like Jackson Pollock
By Byron Browne
Located in Miami, FL
In Byron Brown's "The Night Journey", 1947, Picasso meets Jackson Pollock. Here Brown strikes a balance between fanciful representation and abstraction. ...
Category
1940s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Red Twist
By Chris Hayman
Located in San Luis Obispo, CA
In her paintings, Christine Hayman concerns herself with space. She is interested in how forms are energized by the space around them, especially when incorporated into paintings wit...
Category
2010s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
Night Rodeo - contemporary abstract painting w/ yellow, green, red lines on blue
By Paula Cahill
Located in Bryn Mawr, PA
Paula Cahill's linear abstract compositions are often comprised of a single, luminous line that meanders, changes color, and seamlessly connects back to itself. This painting combine...
Category
2010s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Archival Paper
"THE STRUGGLE WE ARE INTODAY IS GIVING US STRENGTH WE NEED ..." Pollock style
Located in SAINT-ALPINIEN, FR
Hand-painted. Not a print. Painting is signed at front and back. Dated. Contemporary FINE ART Original PAINTING, acrylics, carded wool , spray paint on paper, unframed. Title: The ...
Category
2010s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Spray Paint, Acrylic
El Lado Obscuro
Located in New York, NY
Mixed Media on canvas
50 x 30 in
Unstretched
Isabel Turbán layers paintings with transfers, acrylic, charcoal, and other mixed media onto canvas or paper. Her abstract paintings ma...
Category
2010s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media
August Day
Located in Scottsdale, AZ
Andrey Inozemtsev is considered to be a master of Russian impressionism. "August Day" is an impression of light along a small road in a town on the Crimean coast near the Black Sea. ...
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2010s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
Encaustic and Gold Leaf "Santa Fe"
Located in San Francisco, CA
Encaustic, red earth, piñon resin, carving and 21k moon gold leaf on wood panel
Category
2010s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Encaustic
"LE CYCLE DE LA VIE" Pollock style
Located in SAINT-ALPINIEN, FR
Hand-painted. Not a print. Painting is signed atfront and back. Dated. Contemporary FINE ART Original PAINTING, acrylics and spray paint on paper, unframed. Title: Le cycle de la v...
Category
2010s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Spray Paint, Acrylic
Just holding up air
By Alyse Rosner
Located in Fairfield, CT
Alyse Rosner 2022
Category
2010s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic, Graphite
Flying Luminous Waves Abstract, red, yellow, Painting Wall Plexiglass Sculptures
By Cari Cohen
Located in Miami, US
Flying Luminous Waves . 2022 These small sized Painting Sculptures are part of the Waves series. This mixed media wall sculptures are painted with acrylic paint, spray paint and past...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Plexiglass, Oil Pastel, Mixed Media, Spray Paint, Acrylic
untitle
Located in ATLANTA, GA
Jean-François LARRIEU (1960) (France) is an artist born in 1960 The oldest auction result ever registered on the website for an artwork by this artist is a painting sold in 1991, at...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
"COMBAT SUPREME" Pollock style
Located in SAINT-ALPINIEN, FR
Hand-painted. Not a print. Painting is signed at front and back. Dated. Contemporary FINE ART Original PAINTING, acrylics and spray paint o...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Spray Paint, Acrylic
Beings Series, Nicky Marais
By Nicky Marais
Located in Windhoek, NA
Beings Series, 2018. Acrylic ink on paper.
Nicky Marais is a Namibian artist, educator and activist who lives and works in Windhoek. Marais is well-known for her abstract artworks c...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Paper, Ink
Vertical Arcs in Cobalt Blue
Located in Quogue, NY
Abstract figurative gouache on paper painting
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Gouache
'Unfolding' Abstract Expressionist, Scandinavian artwork, black and white
Located in Lahti, FI
'Unfolding' is a reminder that you are allowed to ask for more, to live a bigger life, be the most authentic version of yourself during this lifetime.
The Universe is full of endle...
Category
2010s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic, Color Pencil
JACK
By Jimi Gleason
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Jimi Gleason introduces two exuberantly gestural, lustrous silver nitrate paintings edged with electric bands of color.
Category
2010s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Silver
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Find a wide variety of authentic Abstract paintings available for sale on 1stDibs. Works in this style were very popular during the 21st Century and Contemporary, but contemporary artists have continued to produce works inspired by this movement. If you’re looking to add paintings created in this style to introduce contrast in an otherwise neutral space in your home, the works available on 1stDibs include elements of blue, purple, orange, red and other colors. Many Pop art paintings were created by popular artists on 1stDibs, including Giorgio Lo Fermo, Sumit Mehndiratta, Nestor Toro, and Cindy Shaoul. Frequently made by artists working with Paint, and Synthetic Resin Paint and other materials, all of these pieces for sale are unique and have attracted attention over the years. Not every interior allows for large Abstract paintings, so small editions measuring 0.1 inches across are also available.
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